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Lifting the title from one of my favorite deejays, longtime WNEW and present WFUV staple Pete Fornatale, I decided to cull some of Forgotten New York's now-hundreds, perhaps thousands, of pictures that have been left behind for whatever reason for this page. I shot some of them long ago, hence the poor resolution; I couldn't really get good quality on pictures till about 2001 when I got the latest Photoshop that had a Save For Web feature, and most are standalone pictures that I couldn't gang up as part of a feature page. Some of them describe mysteries I haven't been able to research, or themes I'd like to explore more in depth at a later date.

This is gonna be one of those Wednesday night quick & dirty pages...

If you'd like more "mixed bag" pages, just let me know, since I think I can do several. FNY, though, will continue to be feature and theme-driven.


ASTORIA, Queens: the el is the BMT Astoria line (N, W); the concrete trestle connects Amtrak trains from Penn Station to the mainland.		HAMILTON HEIGHTS, Manhattan, Broadway & West 147 St., center median. Revolutionary War battle marker.


	MURRAY HILL, Manhattan, 3rd Avenue and East 34th Street, tree planted by Abe Beame, mayor from 1974-1978


BERGEN BEACH, Brooklyn: spirit of '76; BROOKLYN HEIGHTS: yeah, I thought, big f!@#in' deal, but it's really Brooklyn Fire Department and dates to before 1898, when Brooklyn was a city


Channeling Hopper. Murray Hill, Manhattan.


		Perry Street, Greenwich Village. "Dog of the Ilk." Or is it UK? I didn't have a good zoom when I shot this in 2003.
Wall ad mentioning Cooper-Siegel Building, 6th Avenue and West 18th, Manhattan.


Berry St., Williamsburgh, Brooklyn. Ruined ancient ad.		Hester Street, Little Italy, Manhattan



Hebrew Actors Union, East Village.		The best sunset photo I ever got, Jamaica, Queens. Biblically righteous.


		Herman's Head, the old Unearthed Museum, Pearl Street, Financial District.
Reconstruction-era houses, Lexington Avenue in the East 20s, Kips Bay.



Setting moon at daybreak, by Christina from her living room		Norwegian Day Parade 2002, 6th Avenue and 67th Street, Bay Ridge, Brooklyn



Old Lane, demapped alley, Maspeth, Queens		Polonia Democratic Club, Grand Street, Williamsburgh, Brooklyn


Enlargement of Picasso's "Bust of Sylvette" by Carl Nesjär, 1977. Silver Towers apartments, New York University, Greenwich Village. The original was a 24" sheet metal work by the great master in 1934.

Abandoned municipal court, Beach Channel Drive, Hammels, Queens

Cannibalistic/anthropomorphic butcher sign, Bensonhurst, Brooklyn


Shea Stadium, Corona, Queens. Shea is scheduled for a leveling in 2009. Guts of a stoplight, Astoria, Queens.



Household gods, Sunset Park, Brooklyn



	LEFT: This is a traffic monitoring device of some kind, but not sure, in Fresh Meadows, Queens. Street sign installed by Downtown Alliance in 2000. Many of the signs depicting the World Trade center have been allowed to remain.

Westchester Avenue, Castle Hill, Bronx. Not sure what the purpose of this hollow-half-domed building was. Any takers?

99 Ryerson Street, Clinton Hill. The only one of Walt Whitman's former Brooklyn residences still standing.

Forgotten Fan Sandi Lusk: The building used to be an old nickelodeon and has been in the Bieder family for many years. The owner is Bob Bieder, Jr. and the family runs their plumbing business there and Bob and his family live there. There are also some rental apts.

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Photos shot between 2002 and 2005. Page completed March 1, 2007.