WALTON High School, 2790 Reservoir Avenue, was founded as an all-girls high school in 1923, became “co-ed” in 1977 and closed in June 2008. Today the building that housed Walton is…

By PATRICK O’CONNORForgotten NY Contributor CONTINUED FROM PART 1 My first visit to Hart Island occurred in February 2025 through a tour offered by the Parks Department Urban Park Rangers. In…

As many Forgotten NY readers know, I have an affinity for Port Washington, NY as I worked in town for 12 years, in two separate stints from 1992-1999 and again…

I was fooled along with everyone else when, meandering down Marcy Avenue at Madison Street in Bedford-Stuyvesant in 2014, I saw this large painted ad for “McCann’s Hats” on the…

We need to talk about Dahill Road, if only because it’s been some time since I gave it much thought. But on the Brooklyn street map, it’s fairly important. When…

OVER the years, this site has documented many former firehouses repurposed as offices and residences. Usually the reason for their closing was in favor of a new firehouse nearby that…

In a situation that fairly ridicules work rules at the Metropolitan Transit Authority, you definitely know what platform to stand on to get to Manhattan at the Fort Hamilton Parkway…

ACCORDING to the undefeated AI robot on the Google, the Public National Bank and Trust Company of New York (Charter Number 11034) was a prominent commercial bank that grew significantly…

AFTER Greenpoint’s grid street system was laid out by Neziah Bliss in the early 1800s, east-west cross streets were named simply, A through Q Streets from north to south. Greenpoint Avenue was…

ACCORDING to NYC subway and railroad historian Joe Brennan, the New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad made its entry to New York via the Harlem Line in 1849, but the…

By DAVID MELTZERForgotten NY contributor SEPARATING the working class neighborhood of College Point, and the mansion studded neighborhood of Malba, there is Powell’s Cove. Before the earliest settlers came, this was…

CONTINUED FROM PART ONE HUNTERS POINT, at the extreme west end of Queens abutting the East River north of Newtown Creek, has been visited often by the Forgotten NY camera. In the…