AMONG the buildings which I forgot to describe in my recent essay on Pacific Park in Brooklyn is the Co-Cathedral of Saint Joseph on Pacific Street (previously seen on this…
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Continued from Part Two WHENEVER I am by the water, I always silently thank providence I live in a city with ready access to it. It wasn’t always the case;…
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PICTURED here is Women’s Plaza, on the north side of Queens Boulevard at Union Turnpike (here the service road of the Jackie Robinson Parkway). I got this image from Google…
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Continued from Part One It has been awhile since I did a long form page on Hudson River Park. I have not visited often: In 2011, ForgottenTour #50 walked it from the…
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WHEN prominent apartment buildings in Bay Ridge are under discussion, Flagg Court (seen on this page), developed by premier architect Ernest Flagg (Singer Building) comes first to mind, but the…
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From the Facebook page Old NYC Photo Dump comes this image of the Seven Seas Restaurant, Surf Avenue at West 16th Street, in 1985. I don’t know much about the…
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It has been awhile since I did a long form page on Hudson River Park. I have not visited often: In 2011, ForgottenTour #50 walked it from the Battery all…
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Forgotten Fan Steve Stein passes along an image of an IND-style subway exit stanchion, marked by red glass, and some railing at a place where no exit can be found,…
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above photo: Gayle Alstrom WHEN I last visited Port Richmond, Staten Island in 2018, I noticed what appeared to be several very old painted ads that I hadn’t noticed before.…
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SIFTING through some photos from 2016, which seems like yesterday now, I came across a series I got in Port Richmond and West Brighton in December 2016 that included a…
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I don’t refer to it much but the longest tenure at any job I ever had was as a compositor at the Times Ledger chain of newspapers at an office…
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FROM the new Facebook page Old NYC Photo Dump comes this image of the Samuel Renne house, also known as the Big House and the Bretonniere house, which had been…