In May 2026, before the humidity set in for good, I took LIRR, subway, boat and Staten Island Railway to Pleasant Plains, a neighborhood in Staten Island I had probably…
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HIDING in plain sight on a Williamsburg corner, #85 Broadway at Berry Street, is a one-story building, a shack really, that has been a diner for the better part of…
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By PATRICK O’CONNORForgotten NY contributor A comment on the recent FNY piece “Otto Road, Glendale’s Railroad Road” suggested another article on nearby Traffic Avenue in Ridgewood. Traffic Avenue is like…
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THE McKim, Mead and White architectural firm designed the enormous former James Farley post office, which opened in 1913, as a companion to Pennsylvania Station, just across 8th Avenue. A…
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In this century it is more common for the city to demap streets than to add new roads as it wages an ongoing war on cars. That’s why I was…
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CONTINUED FROM PART ONE EVEN though I’m having a busy year with photography, having added over 4000 photos to my archive this year alone up to August, I’ve decided to…
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YET one more example of the classic residential architecture of the early 20th Century I found while dazedly trundling through the Upper west Side in April 2021 at #200 West…
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DURING the summer, I walked many of lower Manhattan’s streets lengthwise from end to end, such as Barclay, Park Place, Murray, Warren, Duane. I have held the photos in reserve…
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Is the Studebaker Building on the NE corner of Bedford Avenue and Sterling Place the most beautiful building on Bedford Avenue? It’s certainly the best-preserved building associated with the defunct…
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By PATRICK O’CONNORForgotten NY contributor I’m the type of person who will take the first available spot and walk a while, rather than circulating around looking for a close-up spot…
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EVEN though I’m having a busy year with photography, having added over 4000 photos to my archive this year alone up to August, I’ve decided to use the most recent…
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CONTINUING my fascination with subway stationhouses… not every one of the NYC subways’ outdoor stations has one. Express or important stations on the Original 28 IRT stations built by Heins…