SINCE the fabulous Fifties, the default streetlamp in New York City is an octagonal (8-sided) aluminum shaft of varying heights, topped with either a straight mast or a curving “cobra…
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In 2019 I finally had the opportunity to visit the Brooks 1890 restaurant at Jackson Avenue and Court Square after attending a book signing by 1969 Miracle Met Art Shamsky.…
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Time for another entry in Sergey Kadinsky’s ongoing series featuring ethnic parks and monuments, following Irish Town, Latino Town and Italian Town. Once again, listings are not presented in strict…
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By PATRICK O’CONNORForgotten NY guest post FROM late February through the end of March, I had a few occasions that necessitated riding the J train, during midday periods from Sutphin…
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This building at 107 South 6th Street in Williamsburg, just north of its junction with Broadway and Bedford, is the former front of the Bedford Avenue or Empire Theatre and then…
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I am a “recovered” bowler. I bowled frequently between 1967 and the mid-1980s. I have mentioned my adventures from time to time in Forgotten New York. I doggedly pursued the…
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GOOGLE MAP: WALKING TOTTENVILLE 2025 It had been since 2017 since I walked extensively around Tottenville, the southernmost point in New York State (it would be the southernmost town in…
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THE blocks around Grand Central Terminal are the most ideal workplaces in the city for their connections to transit. In the last century before airplanes became the dominant form of…
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BY NATALIA PARUZForgotten New York guest post HIDDEN in plain sight, just steps from the bustling main doors of Trinity Church at Broadway and Wall Street, lies a piece of…
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THERE are three separate styles of lampposts at the new-ish 72nd Street stationhouse at Verdi Square, where Broadway meets Amsterdam Avenue. Two I am familiar with, while the other one…
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UPON ambling through Douglaston to take in the crisp spring air (an El Niño is developing that will keep it hot and humid for a few months soon enough) I…
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PROBABLY the obscurest and shortest street that is traversed by a NYC elevated subway is Birchall Avenue, which runs from White Plains Road south beyond Sagamore Street to a dead…