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*On these pages we'll do short...sometimes very* short...examinations of a 2-4 block area of selected NYC neighborhoods. Your webmaster may get very opinionated here.**
			Eddie's Sweet Shop, Forest Hills

9/1/10 Scenes From the Occupation Part 7: Car-free Saturday from East 46th to Central Park

8/27/10 Scenes From the Occupation Part 6: Car-free Saturday: The Park Avenue Viaduct
8/25/10 Scenes From the Occupation Part 5: Car-free Saturday from East 34th to East 40th Street
8/19/10 Scenes From the Occupation Part 4: Car-free Saturday from Union Square to East 32nd Street
8/18/10 Scenes From the Occupation Part 3: Car-free Saturday from Cooper Square to Union Square
8/12/10 Scenes From the Occupation Part 2: Car-free Saturday from Canal Street to Colonnade Row
8/10/10 Scenes From the Occupation Part 1: Car-free Saturday from City Hall to Canal
8/5/10 Lex Lamps. Curved mast survivors in Carnegie Hill
8/2/10 Time fades away for a couple of Borough Park icons

7/28/10 Natural High. The Freight Elevated
7/27/10 The story of B Street in Pelham Bay
7/21/10 Bright lights big city: Lamppost exhibit at City Reliquary
7/19/10 Fresh Kills: trash to trails on the way
7/14/10 Where the streets have one name -- or one number: Maspeth
7/6/10 Havemeyer, willl travel
7/5/10 Ailing Cyclops on Riverside Drive
7/1/10 Hollywood Swingin' for some remaining original Bruckner Expressway poles

6/26/10 End of the line for the Q79 bus
6/17/10 Hunter's Point South, before the cranes
6/16/10 45th Road: should-be landmarked district in Hunters Point
6/9/10 Marcy, Marcy from the BMT platform
6/2/10 Gone in Sixty Years, a vintage street sign
6/1/10 A piece of Madison Street in Queens

5/28/10 Cornered on University Place
5/26/10 Paperchase on Prince Street
5/12/10 Shock of the new: weird lampposts at Fulton Mall
5/11/10 Exquisite rust: Centre Street crook
5/6/10 In the shadow of Atlantic Yards

4/29/10 The 4 corners of 8.30
4/21/10 Action Jackson Avenue
4/20/10 A ramble on Fort Hamilton Parkway
4/7/10 A walk across Manhattan on West 181st
4/6/10 Hope is never in short supply at Citifield
4/1/10 A short walk in Midwood

3/30/10 Falling Down, the abandoned houses of 31st Street, Astoria
3/25/10 Last call for Rexall?
3/24/10 The Mother Lode of lampposts in Sunnyside
3/19/10 Brick Testament on 35th Street, Astoria
3/16/10 Life in a Fishbowl bus
3/14/10 Tanks for the Memories in Queens
3/10/10 Chelsea Passage in high-rise-ville
3/5/10 Easy as 123: West 123rd Street
3/2/10 Lights Out for a landmarked lamppost Downtown

2/24/10 Who Are Those Guys? Grand Army Plaza, Brooklyn
2/18/10 Overground heroine: Harlem's Harriet Tubman Memorial
2/16/10 A little bit of Little Neck Parkway
2/11/10 New Utrecht: country churchyards, ancient roads
2/9/10 First I look at the 'Hurst
2/4/10 The Ministry of Travel, Brooklyn's new LIRR terminal

1/29/10 Don't let the City Reliquary close down
1/28/10 The Dead Pool, Revisited. Blazing Star Cemetery
1/27/10 Creamed at Eddie's of Forest Hills
1/21/10 Tales of Westchester Square, Part 2: the north square
1/20/10 Tales of Westchester Square, Part 1
1/14/10 The Big X in Borough Park
1/13/10 Queens respite in Forest Hills

12/30/09 PLAV on Leonard Street
12/22/09 The two Sheepshead Bay Roads
12/18/09 Brooklyn's Cortelyou Road
12/16/09 Smokin' in Belmont
12/11/09 BEMBO: between the Broklyn and Manhattan Bridge Overpasses
12/9/09 Death of a King: 7th Avenue's Papaya King
12/8/09 A trip to Maspeth
12/3/09 The beautiful and damned Staten Island Hospital/S. R. Smith Infirmary
12/2/09 Checking out the Sherriff Bishop

11/17/09 A walk on Catalpa Avenue in Ridgewood
11/13/09 Where there's a mill there's a way...saving the LIC colonial era millstones
11/11/09 Little Neck's hidden lanes

10/28/09 Hidden Bay Street, St. George
10/27/09 When you're Mott you're Mott in Mott Haven
10/21/09 Willieburg's spook house
10/20/09 Morse Lode. Discoveries on OHNY weekend
10/15/09 Open House NY 2009
10/8/09 Rust never sleeps especially on Greenwich Street.
10/6/09 Pip Pip Hooray! Newtown Pippin apple returns to Queens
10/1/09 They who control the spice: Durkee of Elmhurst

9/25/09 One of my favorite corners, 5th and 19th
9/17/09 Korean War memorial in Kissena Park
9/16/09 Finally -- preservation for the NY State Pavilion. Maybe
9/15/09 Scheffel-ing along in Gramercy Park
9/10/09 Cooper Square, where 1850 meets 2010
9/3/09 A stroll on Allerton Avenue, Bronxdale

8/28/09 Forest Hills after dark
8/26/09 Drugstore evolution in Clinton Hill
8/21/09 Yorkville's clocks
8/19/09 Albemarle, Brooklyn, and its castles big and small
8/12/09 Just one Palmetto
8/11/09 Indiana Wants Me in Glendale
8/7/09 Noble passes in Greenpoint
8/4/09 Mystery on West 20th: Van Dolsom Row

7/30/09 Goodbye Amigo: Peter's of Madison Street
7/24/09 South of Prospect (Park)
7/22/09 Snyder Avenue, the duke of Flatbush
7/15/09 A conclave on St. John's Place in Crown Heights
7/14/09 Remaining Sanford Avenue classics
7/9/09 No nonsense signs on Manhattan Avenue
7/6/09 Forgotten businesses of Lorimer Street

6/30/09 Sacred and profane on North Fifth
6/29/09 Champage condos and barbed-wire views on North Fourth
6/25/09 Little Hungary on the Upper East Side
6/17/09 Sunny Signs in Sunnyside
6/5/09 Wall Dog Chow ad uncovered in Maspeth

5/18/09 Nice to See You at the Lorelei Fountain
5/15/09 Places Matter: Cedar Lane
5/12/09 Tribes: the lampposts of the Robert F. Kennedy Bridge
5/7/09 East River, the Forgotten way
5/5/09 Back in The Pack

4/27/09 A new look at the old Fort Hamilton area
4/17/09 Another visit to the Rossville Boatyard
4/14/09 West 230th Street, another of The Bronx' step streets
4/10/09 Studley Triangle, Broadway-Flushing
4/7/09 Follow Dorothea's yelow brick road
4/2/09 Dedicated. The city makes another go at protected bicycle lanes

3/31/09 Cousin Oliver: The Bronx' red brick street
3/24/09 Bedford Street: laundries and Lortel
3/20/09 A hint of the old A&S
3/17/09 Mixed Bag. Stuff lying around.
3/12/09 A walk on West 12th
3/6/09 Bronx scenes at the 77th anniversary of the Lindbergh kidnapping
3/3/09 And it feels like 74: my favorite Bay Ridge block
3/2/09 End of a Coney era at Major Markets

2/27/09 Going to the Eastside
2/24/09 A Piece of Astoria: 36th Street
2/20/09 Phantom Railroad in Ridgewood
2/19/09 Carroll Street from 6th to 7th
2/13/09 Angels of Staten Island: 9/11 tribute in Arrochar
2/11/09 Alpha, Delta, Swella: The Beekman Tower
2/9/09 Scenes from Deep Queens
2/2/09 Windsor (Terrace) stays on my mind

1/30/09 My old school: Cathedral Prep
1/29/09 Greetings from Sheepshead Bay 1994
1/20/09 Stopped Cold. Another classic stoplight is decapitated.
1/15/09 You win some... Gravesend's Hubbard house and Cheyenne saved, Amato Opera to close
1/13/09 Hookwinked! Cheyenne Diner looks for a new buyer
1/8/09 Coney For Sale
1/6/09 Doone. The novel. The cookie. The street.

12/30/08 O Tannenbaum -- the pines of 249th Street
12/26/08 Solid Gold Ancient concert poster revealed
12/25/08 Clocks -- a Manhattan sampler
12/22/08 Death Noel for a 5th Avenue lamppost
12/18/08 Roosevelt Avenue: signs of no change
12/15/08 Moore-Jackson: Woodside's hidden cemetery
12/10/08 See Ear in Soho's historic inn
12/4/08 Magic can't save Gordon's Novelties
12/3/08 A gathering of Tudors in Douglaston
12/1/08 Awning art in Long Island City

11/21/08 Neigh-bor no more but the Claremont stables are still there
11/20/08 Hidden Truss bridge in Long Island City
11/18/08 Crumbling Cherubs on East 43rd Street
11/13/08 Greenwich Street's rusting crook
11/10/08 This post gets around: Firemen's Memorial
11/7/08 Dennet Place, Cobble Hill alley
11/6/08 Rapelye, a street of colonial history
11/4/08 The Abandoned Courthouse on the Rockaway peninsula

10/31/08 G Spot in Stuyvesant Town
10/28/08 Hail Columbia Street, finally repaved after 3 years of work
10/23/08 Once I Had A Secret Park: Detmold, in Turtle Bay
10/21/08 Faithful Day at Our Lady of Mount Carmel Shrine in Rosebank
10/17/08 Forgotten Radio City at Open House NY
10/15/08 Interiors of NYC at the annual Open House
10/9/08 Coffey and a Donut. A street in Red Hook
10/7/08 Maritime remnants in Ikea Park
10/1/08 Denyse Wharf, Brooklyn

9/30/08 Fat Boy abides. Queens' "Civic Virtue"
9/25/08 The sculptures of Parkchester
9/23/08 I've Got Pieces of Dahill
9/16/08 The Little Lighthouse of the Bronx, in High Bridge
9/11/08 Where Brooklyn Worked. Former Park Slope factories
9/9/08 Remembering Niederstein's of Middle Village
9/4/08 Signs of Nine. Terrific signs in Hell's Kitchen
9/2/08 West 59th, where gnomes gnaw

8/15/08 The Other Monument on Riverside Drive
8/14/08 Signgate On Jamiaca Avenue, a shy printer and an ice skating boot factory
8/12/08 North 10th Street, where the Fedders, the richies, and the Willieburg oldtimers all meet
8/6/08 All's Not Wellner in Jackson Square
8/4/08 Dunham Deal in Williamsburg
8/1/08 Remembrance of a Lamppost Past in Gansevoort Plaza

7/31/08 The Rising of Flushing's Broadway LIRR station
7/28/08 The Taming of Gansevoort Plaza
7/24/08 And then there's Renwick, the new jewel in Hudson Square's crown
7/21/08 Tale of Two Traincars in Queens and Brooklyn
7/11/08 Might as well Jump to honor a Forgotten pioneer
7/7/08 Signs of the times on 5th Avenue. The 60s and 70s, that is
7/2/08 St. George, Staten Island: urban oasis

6/30/08 Isn't it a Pythy on West 70th
6/27/08 Brief encounter with exposed West 32nd Street ads
6/26/08 Queens and the alphabet: Kneeland Avenue
6/23/08 Short-distance runarounds in Little Neck
6/16/08 A good day for the roses in NY Botanical Garden
6/11/08 Flatbush sampler on the annual house tour
6/4/08 NYC's greatest building corner street sign
6/2/08 Institution. My old home on 73rd Street

5/28/08 Coney Island, baby. Avenue.
5/21/08 A little Bedford Park can't hurt
5/19/08 The Old Main Drag. Stewart Avenue, Bay Ridge
5/15/08 3rd Avenue. Punks? In Bay Ridge?
5/13/08 Alleys, my alleys in Chinatown
5/7/08 Lord of the Alley in Elmhurst
5/6/08 The Tin Woodsman of Woodside
5/2/08 Pieces of 78th Street
5/1/08 Great Scott. Revisiting a footbridge

4/29/08 Ocean, Brooklyn's neglected avenue
4/24/08 Cleveland in Queens: Ridgewood Terrace
4/23/08 Good Charlotte. A Ridgewood cul-de-sac
4/22/08 Stockholm Syndrome. Ridgewood's landmarked block
4/15/08 Dog Days. A look back at Al Deppe's
4/11/08 Historic signs in Woodhaven and Richmond Hill
4/10/08 Walking the William B.
4/7/08 Douglaston, briefly

3/31/08 Some secrets in Tompkins Square Park
3/28/08 St. Saviour's Church awaits a possible move, its original exterior revealed
3/27/08 Mighty Oak. A Fiske Terrace (Brooklyn) SRO awaits fate: teardown or reno?
3/25/08 Sixth Out There. Remaining classic 6th Ave buildings
3/20/08 The Mysterious Island on the Collier globe
3/18/08 The Place to (Avenue) B
3/14/08 The mysterious Park Slope Collage
3/11/08 Appendages and doodads on NYC lampposts
3/5/08 Fillmore East Tiles mark the great concert venue
3/3/08 Winter light on Mercer Street

2/28/08 Little Neck Farmhouse
2/25/08 23 Skiddoo 2. Or is it 3?
2/22/08 Snow at Last. Remembering the big snows of yesterday
2/21/08 Wide-Open Queens in Fresh Meadows
2/20/08 Ft. Greene Scenes Brooklyn Tech, Officers' Row
2/18/08 Marathon Run Queens' Marathon Parkway
2/14/08 Lamp Sampler from Bob Mulero
2/13/08 Broadway Iron. Lower Broadway building sampler
2/11/08 Flatbush Avenue Triangles of Park Slope
2/7/08 Soda & Candy. The Lexington Candy Shop.
2/6/08 Lascoff's. Hold the food, bring the leeches
2/4/08 Yorktown: eine kleines Deutschland

1/31/08 Day in Court A couple of secrets at Brooklyn's Boro Hall/Court-Montague subway station
1/28/08 Navy Secrets. A look at some of the Brooklyn Navy Yard's historic buildings
1/23/08 Goin' to Gowanus
1/16/08 Oh, Doctor! The old NY Cancer Hospital
1/14/08 Represent! Staten Island's Ambassador Apartments
1/11/08 Man of the People 2007's book tour
1/10/08 Brooklyn's Forgotten Alley One of them, at least.
1/8/08 Bronxwood Park Bronx Brigadoon?
1/7/08 Jolly On The Shore, a bit of Bay Ridge's Shore Road
1/2/08 Behind the Gray Door. A historic relic comes to the Greater Astoria Historical Society

12/31/07 Trinity Bridge and its predecessor
12/19/07 Cornered. Building street signs
12/13/07 Tommy Can You Hear Us. Illegal housing in Maspeth
12/11/07 Ancient marine reptile surfaces in Brooklyn
12/6/07 Autumno-porn in Queens
12/4/07 Help Me, Howard: Howard Street and unvarnished Soho

11/29/07 FAIRly Breathin' in Chelsea
11/27/07 Last Jahn's Standing isn't in Richmond Hill
11/25/07 Pearl Street history disappears
11/19/07 Nothing Bright (Food) about it
11/18/07 Grand Illusion of a beautiful borough
11/14/07 "Iggy" Popped: The Lone Star iguana, wherever it is, mourns the condition of its old building
11/11/07 Cuckoo Corcoran: Realty queen suggests paving over Queens lawns
11/8/07 Borough Park: a map error, and an abandoned beauty parlor
11/5/07 The Cryder farm lives on in the Whitestone Tower
11/1/07 A Piece of Eighth Street

10/30/07 Staten Island Mysteries
10/22/07 Piano Man Mott Haven reminiscences
10/18/07 NYC lamppost survivors
10/15/07 Dwight Baum's YMCA
10/10/07 Open Sesame. Open House NY 2007, Part 2
10/8/07 Open Sesame. Open House NY 2007, Part 1
10/4/07 Post-humorous mural in Port Richmond
10/1/07 Subway gold...in Staten Island

9/28/07 The Faces of Madison Avenue
9/27/07 The Abandoned Bank in Douglaston
9/17/07 Perry Little, a bit of Perry Street
9/13/07 Street with 3 names in Little Neck
9/10/07 Columbus' latest discovery, an original 1904 plaque at Columbus Circle subway
9/7/07 Lullaby of Broadway. LIRR eliminates 1913 station design
9/6/07 First Time. Clocks in Lenox Hill

8/30/07 Soda, Candy and a Slice. ForgottenFan contributions
8/27/07 View from The Coop. Demolitions cause temporary vistas.
8/23/07 Macy's, uptown and downtown
8/16/07 Park Hill, Staten Island, Adventures in Vandyland
8/13/07 Flushing Meadows' sorry state plus a surprise
8/9/07 52nd Street Slice in Sunset Park
8/8/07 Vanishing Cream: Slices of Ridgewood
8/6/07 Alben Square, where the Dead played Brooklyn
8/2/07 Torched! City Island Museum vows to rebuild
8/1/07 Marvelous Night for 2 NYC diners

7/30/07 Forest Hills rowhouses
7/27/07 PATH terminal downtown
7/26/07 Greenpoint

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