RE-WARDING DISCOVERY
Forgotten New York - New York City used to have political designations called wards, which were the smallest political units in NYC. Each ward elected an alderman and an assistant alderman to the City...
View ArticlePOSTCARDS FROM THE EDGE OF TOWN
Forgotten New York - You’ll find a lot of books on the shelves, especially during the holiday season, that have dozens of old-time postcards of New York’s most famous landmarks…the Empire State...
View ArticleTALES OF THE T-POLES. NYC’s variety of telephone pole lighting fixtures over...
Forgotten New York - Heavy snow in NYC winters is unpredictable. A series of winters with little snow can be followed by years of blizzardy winters. But a fearsome, freak blizzard in early March 1888...
View ArticleEAST NEW YORK COMMUNITY GARDENS
Forgotten New York - Named for a settlement begun by merchant John Pitkin in 1835 that he hoped would someday grow as a great rival to New York, East New York (there IS a West New York…in New Jersey)...
View ArticleFULTON STREET: Fort Greene to East New York
Forgotten New York - THERE ain’t no Starbucks, fancy chocolate makers, chi-chi restaurants, velvet-rope nightclubs with 300-pound bouncers, 2-million-dollar condos, Fairways, Ikeas, hardly any...
View ArticleACTIVE LIRR STATIONS IN NEW YORK CITY
Forgotten New York - ATTENTION has been paid, and rightly so, to the NYC subway system on its 100th anniversary in 2004, but there’s an even older transit system in New York existing alongside the...
View ArticleELDERT LANE: BROOKLYN-QUEENS LINE
Forgotten New York - THE BRONX borders Nassau County.Manhattan borders Queens. The Bronx borders Queens, too. Staten Island borders Middlesex County, New Jersey. Suffolk County borders Rhode Island!...
View ArticleFROM AN L TRAIN WINDOW
Forgotten New York - When you were a child did you ever get excited when you were riding a train and suddenly, the car was awash in sunshine when the train emerged from the tunnel and vaulted onto an...
View ArticleRUBEL BROTHERS Coal and Ice
Forgotten New York - BY GARY FONVILLE Forgotten NY correspondent Remember video stores, record shops, beeper outlets, shoe repair shops and ice cream/ fountain soda stands? These types of businesses...
View ArticleEAST NEW YORK WHEELIE
Forgotten New York - Looking east on Sutter Avenue from Van Siclen Avenue in 1966, I note from Google Earth that just about everything in this photo has now vanished. The brick apartment/storefronts...
View ArticleNEW LOTS AVENUE STATION, East New York
Forgotten New York - The New Lots Avenue station is the eastern end of the line for #3 and #4 IRT trains. This view, from NYC Subways’ 1980s collection, shows a pair of graffitied rolling stock idling...
View ArticleWYONA OR WYCKOFF? East New York
Forgotten New York - Forgotten NY correspondent Gary Fonville, a former NYC bus driver, points out an anomaly on this building at Atlantic Avenue and Wyona Street that has me stumped…. …if you look...
View ArticleFULTON STREET: East New York to Woodhaven, Part 1
Forgotten New York - I’ve been on Fulton Street a lot. Over a decade ago I learned that the classic restaurant Gage & Tollner, at Fulton and Smith, had just closed, so I did a piece on it that...
View ArticleFULTON STREET: East New York to Woodhaven, Part 2
Forgotten New York - Continued from Part 1 I’ve been on Fulton Street a lot. Over a decade ago I learned that the classic restaurant Gage & Tollner, at Fulton and Smith, had just closed, so I did a...
View ArticlePITKIN AVENUE YARD, East New York
Forgotten New York - This no-nonsense, Machine Age sign appears at the employee entrance of the underground NYC Pitkin Avenue Yards at Sutter and Grant Avenues in East New York. Why not Sutter Avenue...
View ArticleLIVONIA AVENUE, East New York
Forgotten New York - By SERGEY KADINSKY Forgotten New York correspondent Among the city streets that follow elevated subway lines today, none are completely in the shade. McDonald Avenue, New Utrecht...
View ArticleBALTIC AVENUE, East New York
Forgotten New York - East New York, a neighborhood in Brooklyn south of Highland Park and the cemetery belt, has been largely rebuilt since it was allowed to fall into decrepitude in the 1950s and...
View ArticleDURYEA HOUSE, East New York 1787-1989
Forgotten New York - The Duryea House in East New York is one of the Colonial-era Dutch houses that were lost before they could be landmarked. Several of these houses still stand in Brooklyn, less in...
View ArticleELDERT AVENUE, Highland Park – East New York
Forgotten New York - Though Dutch immigrants had established some homes and farms in Brownsville and East New York in the 1700s, the area did not gel as a community until the early-to-middle 1800s....
View ArticleMILLER AVENUE, East New York
Forgotten New York - By SERGEY KADINSKY Forgotten NY correspondent While driving through Cypress Hills and East New York I passed by what looked like an abandoned castle. In this section of the city, I...
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