Upper West Side

I have yet to do a definitive walk on Riverside Drive, though in 2012 a Forgotten NY tour marched from 72nd north to 125th, a trip that took us a…

THOUGH Teddy Roosevelt has left the entrance of the Museum of Natural History on Central Park West (he is going to the Theodore Roosevelt Presidential Library in Medora, ND in…

Of the station renovations along the IRT Broadway Line done in the late 1990s and early 2000s my favorite just may be the 66th Street-Lincoln Center station, one of the…

MAJOR General Franz Sigel (1824-1902) overlooks Riverside Drive at West 106th Street. Sigel, born in Baden, Germany, served in the German military until 1852, when he emigrated to the US,…

THE westernmost north-south avenue in Manhattan north of West 72nd Street, Riverside Drive runs from West 72nd Street north to Broadway and Dyckman Street in Inwood. Riverside Drive was designed…

LOCATED between West 94th and 95th Streets west of Broadway, Pomander Walk is the only Manhattan thoroughfare named for a stage play. The play – itself named for a London…

96th Street is one of the Original 28 IRT subway stations that opened on October 27, 1904 between the old City Hall station and 145th Street, #1, 2, 3 trains…

By SERGEY KADINSKYForgotten New York correspondent New York has often been derided as a playground for the rich, with their empty glass towers and breathtaking views of the city that…

Freestanding, walk-in phone booths used to be ubiquitous all over town, but even before cell phones began taking over in the 1990s, street telephones had been replaced for the most…

Though Tom’s Restaurant on the Upper West Side at Broadway and West 112th Street is hardly “forgotten” and has been a beloved area touchstone since the 1940s when the Zoulis…

This subway entrance on Broadway caught my interest for two reasons: one, it’s for a long-closed subway entrance, and two, as the time “stamp” indicates, it was taken on my…

There are a number of reminders around town of the days when ole Dobbin was the fastest means of transportation. You’ve seen hitching posts, some with carved horse heads; stone…