I have been to Los Angeles twice in my lifetime, to visit family (on my mother’s side) in 1962, when I was four; I have virtually no memory of my…
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TWO decades ago while meandering about in the rain down Maiden Lane in the eastern Financial District downtown in May 2003 I came across an unmarked street issuing north. I ascertained…
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I don’t have much to say today except to say my explorations of Newark, NJ have been shamefully few over the years, paling, for example, next to Jersey City or…
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My visits to New Jersey have been sporadic. For 30 years, on occasion, I have spent a lot of time in Hoboken and even worked there for a year in…
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WHEN I moved to fabulous Flushing in 1993, I was still bicycling far distances in roadways, ranging as far west as Ridgewood and as far east as Garden City; these…
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It surprises me somewhat that New York City doesn’t have more streets named for baseball players, as there have been four MLB teams playing in NYC since the start of…
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THIS sort of escaped my notice as I had no idea that a new pedestrian bridge spanning the pedal-to-the-metal West Street (formerly the West Side Highway) opened during 2021; like…
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BACK in March I took a PATH train to Newark and then rode the Newark Light Rail all the way to its terminal at Grove Street in Bloomfield, which is…
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Today in Forgotten NY, we’ll talk about a place I’ve never been to. But Sergey has…. –Ed. BY SERGEY KADINSKYForgotten NY correspondent On the colonial landscape of Long Island, the…
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PERIODICALLY, I cross the border — completely undefended by barbed wire, rifle toting guads and dogs — from Little Neck into Nassau County. The reasons for this have been diverse…
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Bob Mulero, NYC’s King of Lampposts, tipped me off to one of the coolest things on toast I’ve seen in the NYC area recently. It’s this freestanding fire alarm, with…
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March 2019 marks Forgotten New York’s 20th anniversary. To mark the occasion, I’ve re-scanned about 150 key images from the early days of FNY from 35MM prints. In the early…