ONE day after giving a Forgotten NY tour in Sunnyside and Astoria in which I pointed out the former Packard showroom/dealership on Northern Boulevard and 46th Street, some stuff fell…
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A “quickie” this weekend. Hopefully, weekend longforms will return soon, though (thankfully?) I’m thinking the days of my 100-photo epics are done. I don’t travel much: when I have the…
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JUST my luck, when I happened by the massive Bay Ridge Savings Bank building at 5th Avenue and 54th Street in Sunset Park, a postal truck was parked in front,…
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THE Dyckman Street station on the #1 train, Dyckman Street and Nagle Avenue, is among my favorites, because it emerges from a tunnel into the light, like Brooklyn’s Parkside Avenue station and…
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LONG before subway “countdown clocks” that foretold, with varying amounts of accuracy, when the next train would appear, these simply designed analog clocks, here seen at Fordham Road in 2016,…
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SEEN here on a Forgotten NY tour in 2018, The Tompkins Square Temperance Monument, erected in 1891, was a gift from a San Francisco dentist and temperance activist, Henry Cogswell (1820-1900).…
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I am, or was, frequently on the block of East 18th between Broadway and Park Avenue South, just north of Union Square. Though I haven’t been in lately, I’ve been…
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In the heart of Bushwick is a green superblock named in honor of Maria Hernandez, a neighborhood activist who lived across from the park on Starr Street. It is a…
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DON’T let the glassy exterior of the building on the NE corner of Lexington Avenue and East 45th fool you…this building, now home to Midtown Comics on the second floor,…
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HOW does one explain Barnell Street, which seems to have popped up organically on Red Hook street maps including Google over the past couple of decades? The city doesn’t grace…
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In the “stuff that I probably won’t see happen” file, today I decided to reprint one of two articles I wrote for Gothamist in 2019, this one co-bylined with Neil…
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In an earlier era of subway construction, the bulk of what is now called the L train was constructed between 1916 and 1924, an eight-year period, by an privately-owned entity…