Williamsburg

In 1964, the R-32 “Brightliner” cars manufactured by the Budd Company (in business as a contractor from 1912-2014) were placed in service on BMT and IND lines in the NYC…

SINCE the fabulous Fifties, the default streetlamp in New York City is an octagonal (8-sided) aluminum shaft of varying heights, topped with either a straight mast or a curving “cobra…

This building at 107 South 6th Street in Williamsburg, just north of its junction with Broadway and Bedford, is the former front of the Bedford Avenue or Empire Theatre and then…

I walked a great deal from August through early November 2025, and a good thing too, since I have had mobility issues since; who knows if those 5 hour, 10-mile…

RECENTLY, Forgotten New York took a look at three separate street in downtown Brooklyn and DUMBO named Fleet, for an early landowner, Samuel Fleet. I’m not done with lost streets…

KEEP looking down…you may see a piece of New York City forgotten history. A few years ago I was ambling east on East 95th Street near Hunter College High School…

THE tug Stephen B assists the barge John Blanche in the East River on a recent weekend afternoon. Behind it is the “gentrified” Domino Sugar refinery on the waterfront, which…

AMONG the many architectural marvels found along the only portion of Brooklyn’s Broadway uncovered by an elevated train in Williamsburg, Brooklyn is the magnificent cast iron Forman Building, facing Broadway…

YOU can learn a lot from coat hangers…wood ones, at least. Newtown Historical Society president, Queen of Queens, Forgotten NY contributor and editor of Juniper Park Civic Association’s Juniper Berry…

YOU don’t hear much about Founding Father Button Gwinnett (1737-1777), though his was the first signature under the Declaration of Independence, if you’re reading the signatures from the left. In…

I am in a slight rush this AM and otherwise got nuthin’, so here’s a fine plastic-lettered sign at #765 Grand Street at Humboldt for what was once Grand Cleaners.…

WHILE most people in Williamsburg’s Italian section know about the Our Lady of Mount Carmel and San Paolino di Nola Feast in which thousands of revelers pack the streets every mid-July…