Upper West Side

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…

The word “peregrine” originally meant “foreign or outlandish” but today, the term applies only to the peregrine falcon, the fastest bird in the world. According to the National Geographic, peregrine…

by SERGEY KADINSKYForgotten NY correspondent Across the street from the world-famous Central Park there is an older park that hosts the American Museum of Natural History. With a controversial museum…

Fire alarms have been a feature on NYC streets since the late 1800s, and methods of marking them, first to passing horse-drawn coaches and pedestrians up to moving vehicles has…

The J.M. Horton Ice Cream Company used to be a big deal. If you look at postcards showing NYC neighborhood scenes in the early 20th Century, a Horton’s ice cream…

I was staggering around in the Upper West Side on a Sunday afternoon, nearly delirious from the insane 75-degree dewpoint, when I stumbled on a classic car on West 74th…

A statue on Riverside Drive at West 112th Street commemorates a Democratic candidate for President who won the popular vote, yet failed to garner enough votes in the Electoral College, giving…

BY SERGEY KADINSKY Forgotten New York correspondent  On the map of Manhattan, the first decade of the new millennium has given the island a new set of streets, with seemingly…

When the Cathedral of St. John the Divine began construction in 1892 at Amsterdam avenue and West 110th Street, the city believed that the occasion required a grand, wide boulevard…

Most street signs that appear on corner buildings are functional and nonesthetic at best, but this one above the Mexican Festival restaurant at the SE corner of Broadway and 102nd…

You don’t see a lot of woodframe buildings in upper Manhattan, especially with some of their roofline decorations still intact. In fact it’s illegal to build woodframe buildings in Manhattan,…

I was veering west on West 73rd Street on my way to Riverside Park, nearly insensate from the unrelenting heat, when I came across an unusual building — I use…