OUR LADY OF GOOD COUNSEL, Yorkville

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On the unholiest day of the year, I’m featuring a church, Our Lady of Good Counsel Roman Catholic Church, constructed on 230 East 90th between 2nd and 3rd Avenues in 1892. When built, Jacob Ruppert’s brewery was across the street, and brewery workers, many of them German, were among the church’s first congregants; Germany had, [...]

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RUPPERT and YORKVILLE TOWERS

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I was meeting someone in Yorkville a couple of weeks ago and I was a bit early, so I started shuffling about, and decided to investigate these massive edifices between 2nd and 3rd Avenue between East 90th-92nd Streets. They’re very well-designed as high-rises go, in your webmaster’s humble opinion. According to NYC Architecture, Ruppert Towers [...]

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FLUSHING, QUEENS 1968

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Besides the mini, I notice: the old RKO Keith’s neon sign; the Bus Stop sign with a picture of a GM Fishbowl; two old-style bus route map signs; a police call box indicator lamp; a mailbox painted blue with red stripes; and Belgian blocks at the Northern Blvd and Main Street intersection. All have disappeared, [...]

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CAMPERDOWN ELM, Prospect Park

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Prospect Park’s signature tree looks even more impressive when its leaves are down. Just past the Boathouse and Lullwater Bridge, you will find what appears to be a large shrub surrounded by an iron fence. The Camperdown Elm is a ground-hugging elm tree derived from a cutting from a creeping Scotch elm at the Camperdown [...]

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Partnership with Hispanic Market Advisors continues to Stenghten HDA’s Digital Footprint

Hispanic Dental Association Converts its Website to Responsive Design: Partnership with Hispanic Market Advisors continues to Stenghten HDA’s Digital Footprint

WASHINGTON, DC October 25, 2014 – The Hispanic Dental Association is pleased to announce the conversion of its website www.hdassoc.org to a responsive web design. This upgrade was made possible due to HDA’s collaboration with Hispanic Market Advisors® to continue to bring a fresh and dynamic look to our brand that corresponds with our efforts to expand and strengthen our digital presence across all platforms and devices… Read entire HDA Press Release

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LAST OF THE HIGH LINE, Chelsea

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It’s not politically correct to like the High Line Park on the west side of Manhattan, which now runs from West 34th Street between 11th and 12th Avenues all the way south to Gansevoort and Washington Streets. It’s the high-concept park that has been built on what was previously called the West Side Freight Railway, [...]

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GRAND STREET HOUSES, Lower East Side

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This pair of Federal Style houses at 511 and 513 Grand Street, just east of East Broadway, with peaked roofs and pedimented dormers, was constructed in 1828 by James Lent and his nephew Henry Barclay. Both buildings were altered to meet the needs of a succession of mainly commercial tenants during the 19th Century. 10/24/14

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WILLETT FAMILY PLOT, Queensboro Hill

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BY SERGEY KADINSKY Forgotten NY correspondent The Willett family plot is the only remaining reminder of Spring Hill, a vast estate that became a cemetery in 1893. The plot is surrounded by Mount Hebron Cemetery and can be seen near the entrance on the south service road of the Horace Harding Expressway just east of [...]

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CALDOR, Flushing

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Here’s a view of the Long Island Rail Road tracks from the elevated Flushing Main Street station looking east in 2009. Note the pair of Caldor signs: the company had gone nearly bankrupt and closed its 160 retail stores and laid off nearly 24,000 employees in 1999, but it’s a testimony to how slow real [...]

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ARROWHEAD SIGNS, Woodside

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At least two corners at Woodside Avenue and 69th Street, near the entrance/exit of the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway, used to have one or two “arrowhead” directional signs. Almost invariably, arrowheads or triangles pointed the way to bridges, while circle-shaped signs pointed to tunnels. The department of Transportation now removes these signs when made aware of their [...]

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TRIBOROUGH BRIDGE SIGN, Williamsburg

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As I’ve said previously in these pages, you can find all sorts of stuff under elevated trains. Here on an el pillar at Broadway and Rutledge Street, there’s a mid-century triangle sign for the Triborough Bridge that hints that if you turn left, you’ll wind up there eventually. However, the stub of Johnson Avenue that [...]

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GE FORM 109, Springfield Gardens

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A rare General Electric Form 109 lamp, quite unusual in NYC, sits on property currently being redeveloped on Springfield Boulevard and 136th Avenue. Never used extensively in NYC, these lamps were developed in the 1950s as one of the first using mercury and emitting a greenish-white light. It hums quite noticeably when warming up in [...]

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LOANS and DIAMONDS, Hollis

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A pair of wonderfully colored handpainted building ads on Springfield Boulevard and 111th Road in a part of town I’m not in all that much, across the road from a Little Sisters of the Poor convent. 10/19/14

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MILKFLOWER SIGN, Astoria

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Upscale pizza joint Milkflower opened on 34-12 31st Avenue in Astoria in 2013. I haven’t been in yet (my favorite pizza in Astoria remains Sac’s on Broadway) but I was attracted to this vintage, or faux vintage, neon sign hung over the sidewalk. If I had to guess, I’d imagine it’s red and green, perhaps [...]

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THEATRE 80 SIDEWALK, East Village

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Everyone has heard of Grauman’s Chinese Theatre in Hollywood, where generations of film stars have signed their names and imprinted their hands in wet concrete. It turns out we have our very own mini-version of Grauman’s Chinese right here in the East Village. Theatre 80, at 80 St. Marks Place near First Avenue, used to [...]

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STREET “TUNNELS” IN QUEENS

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Before I begin, I’ll get this out of the way right away, since Forgotten NY’s nitpickers are legion. No, nothing on this page is technically a tunnel, but they’re reasonable facsimiles. New York has two vehicular tunnels that are within the 5 boroughs: the Brooklyn-Battery Tunnel, opened in 1951 and sub-named the High Carey tunnel [...]

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MARBLE HILL TO NORWOOD, Part 2

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CONTINUED FROM PART 1 I got off the #1 uptown at 225th Street and wasn’t sure where I was going, which some say has been my problem all these years. I would up loitering around Kingsbridge Heights, Fordham, Bedford Park and Norwood, even briefly entering Woodlawn Cemetery before returning to town via the D train [...]

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JAMAICA TOWN HALL

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By SERGEY KADINSKY Forgotten NY correspondent The historic structure was erected in 1869 as the civic center for all villages within the Town of Jamaica. Any Queens neighborhood today that begins with a 114- zip code was once part of this town. After its 1898 consolidation into Greater New York City, the structure served as [...]

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FORMER ST. PETER’S A.M.E. CHURCH, Douglaston

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Douglaston Hills is a small wedge of territory between Douglaston proper and Little Neck, defined by Douglaston Parkway, the Long Island Rail Road tracks, Northern Boulevard and Udall’s Cove Park. The neighborhood contains the historic Zion Church, whose cemetery contains the remains of colonial-era residents as well as area landowners such as the author/raconteur Bloodgood [...]

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R.I.P. NEPTUNE METER WORKS, Hunter’s Point

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The stolid brick Neptune Meter Works Building on Jackson Avenue and Crane Street stood from 1910 until today, October 9, 2014; it had been razed to make way for a multimillion dollar condominium project, joining many such in the neighborhood and along the Queens waterfront. Neptune, currently based in Tallassee, Alabama, occupied the building until [...]

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PELL AVENUE, Corona

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As you can see in the title card, there’s a twin, or double-masted, hexagonal pole on 37th avenue west of 114th Street, illuminating the sidewalk at Hinton Park, which extends from 34th Avenue one block to 37th Avenue and from 113th to 114th Streets. Of course, most people would ignore this anomaly and pass it [...]

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MARBLE HILL TO NORWOOD, Part 1

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I got off the #1 uptown at 225th Street and wasn’t sure where I was going, which some say has been my problem all these years. I would up lollygagging around Kingsbridge Heights, Fordham, Bedford Park and Norwood, even briefly entering Woodlawn Cemetery before returning to town via the D train at the end of [...]

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EAST NEW YORK WHEELIE

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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 have been replaced by tract housing. Of course this photo is notable for depicting one of the few remaining “Wheelie” stoplights that still remained by the [...]

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LIQUOR, Longwood

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Here’s a grand old awning sign on East 149th Street west of Prospect Avenue that’s two ancient signs in one, and three if you count the vertical sign. I’d say the neon RETAIL LIQUOR sign is the older, while the LIQUOR spelled out in black plastic letters on a beige background is newer, though not [...]

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HOUSES OF EAST 92nd STREET

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Sequestered along quiet East 92nd Street east of Park Avenue are a trio of grand old wooden houses with porches, distinctive in the Upper East Side due to their contrast to surrounding houses from subsequent decades. Though they face the street, they date back to a time before streets were built, when they were likely [...]

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WILLIAMSBURG TROLLEY REMNANT

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I was desultorily trudging through Williamsburg on January 1, 2014 when I was reminded of the power of trolley tracks to preserve ancient streets. Johnson Avenue is a relatively busy two-lane road that cuts through East Williamsburg from Manhattan Avenue east to Flushing, Cypress and Scott Avenues in a section of Bushwick that is being [...]

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