ORIGINAL TWIN, Herald Square

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Known officially as a Type 24M Twin, this post holds down the southeast corner of 5th Avenue and East 19th Street a few blocks from Union Square. I am using the term “original” loosely; the original form o the 5th Avenue Twin was somewhat more ornate and can best be seen in the collection of retro […]

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LACKAWANNA TERMINAL, Hoboken, NJ

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Since March 2016 I have been commuting to a freelance job at Pearson Educational Publishing in Hoboken, NJ. I don’t enter Hoboken Terminal (officially, Lackawanna Terminal, its original name in 1907, given for its connection to a long-deceased railroad, the Erie-Lackawanna) every day, but I’m comforted by knowing that it’s there and will likely be there […]

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FORGOTTENTOUR #112, Turtle Bay, Manhattan

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Turtle Bay, home to the United Nations complex for the last 65 years, is also where you will find a mix of classical and modern architecture from the 1850s up to the 2010s, intriguing statuary and a helping of classic lampposts and water views, as well as the longtime homes of Katharine Hepburn and Irving Berlin. […]

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GLENWOOD HOTEL, Williamsburg

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Here’s another photo from ForgottenTour #1, June 1st, 1999, on a walk down Brooklyn’s Broadway. I caught sight of this ancient sign for the Glenwood Hotel on Broadway near Rodney Street. I imagined the space above as the flop of all flops, and thanked the god of urban explorers that I did not have to […]

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DAVICO HAIR & FEATHER, Williamsburg

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Revisiting some more photos from 1999: today I have a pair of pictures from ForgottenTour #1, on June 1st of that year. We met at Kent Avenue and Broadway and walked Broadway to Flushing Avenue, taking a look at some ancient painted ads, then grabbed a J train and made our way to Chauncey Street […]

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NEW UTRECHT AVENUE, Brooklyn, Part 3

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Continued from Part 2 I’ve spent time both on New Utrecht Avenue and under elevated trains in my Forgotten New York years. I’m absolutely fascinated by streets that run underneath elevated trains, and New York City happens to be the epicenter of “streets under els.” Boston has now got rid of most of its el […]

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EMD GP38-2, Long Island Rail Road

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Engine #260 idles at the Shea Stadium platform on a 1999 fantrip.  The EMD GP38-2 is a four-axle diesel-electric locomotive of the road switcher type built by General Motors, Electro-Motive Division. Part of the EMD Dash 2 line, the GP38-2 was an upgraded version of the earlier GP38. Power is provided by an EMD 645E […]

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MP-72 CARS AT AUBURNDALE

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In 1901, Auburndale, the neighborhood just east of Flushing, Queens, was empty farmland. Enter the New England Development & Improvement Co., which bought the 90-acre Thomas Willets farm, and lo and behold, Auburndale the community was born. The name comes from Auburndale, Massachusetts, the home of L. H. Green, who developed the community starting in 1901, when […]

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ALCO #614, LIRR

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An ALCO FA diesel locomotive #614 idles at the Shea Stadium Long Island Rail Road platform in September 1999, a place it rarely visited, as the Port Washington Branch on which the station is located was electrified in 1910, the same year Penn Station opened. On this occasion, a fan trip necessitated its appearance here. The […]

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SHEA STADIUM LIRR PLATFORM

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I recently came across some snaps taken during the Dawn of Forgotten New York in 1999 — in particular, from a fan trip from September 1999 employing LIRR MP-50 cars, which were hauled by diesel engines on unelectrified parts of the Long Island Rail Road, which were mostly “out east” — past Ronkonkoma or Hicksville. […]

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NEW UTRECHT AVENUE, Brooklyn, Part 2

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Continued from Part 1 I’ve spent time both on New Utrecht Avenue and under elevated trains in my Forgotten New York years. I’m absolutely fascinated by streets that run underneath elevated trains, and New York City happens to be the epicenter of “streets under els.” Boston has now got rid of most of its el […]

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FORGOTTENTOUR #111: SOUTHERN ROOSEVELT ISLAND

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Manhattan is an island… but did you know there’s a second island in the borough of Manhattan? Roosevelt Island gets the FNY treatment with visits to highlights on the island’s southern end with Four Freedoms Park, Smallpox Hospital, Blackwell Mansion and much more. We’ll get the tram to the island and meet at the tram entrance at […]

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GRIFFITH BLOCK, Port Richmond

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Port Richmond has its beginnings in the 1690s and early 1700s when Dutch and French colonists settled here. After the landowning Haughwout family laid out the town’s tight street grid system in the 1830s the town became a commercial and industrial hub, and many of the buildings from Port Richmond’s “golden age” can still be […]

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CAPT. PHILIP T. FEENEY, Port Richmond

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The forlorn remains of the tug Philip T. Feeney can be found at the source of Port Richmond Avenue just north of Richmond Terrace at the Kill Van Kull. This isn’t an extensive ship graveyard like the one found in Rossville on the island’s south shore, but somehow one abandoned wreck is more poignant than dozens of […]

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SYBIL’S CAVE PARK, Hoboken

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Smack in the middle of Hoboken is a high hill called Castle Point, surmounted by the Stevens Institute of Technology. A road forms a crescent along the shoreline at the bottom of the point between 4th and 11th Streets, a former horse and wagon route shared with railroad tracks, but now the vehicular Frank Sinatra Drive. […]

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NEW UTRECHT AVENUE, Borough Park

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I’ve spent time both on New Utrecht Avenue and under elevated trains in my Forgotten New York years. I’m absolutely fascinated by streets that run underneath elevated trains, and New York City happens to be the epicenter of “streets under els.” Boston has now got rid of most of its el lines; the Orange ON […]

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HUDDLESTONE ARCH, Central Park

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To many observers, Huddlestone is the most remarkable ornamental arch in the park. From some angles, it resembles a natural cave. It rests on neither mortar nor metal supports and is made of immense natural boulders, some of which weigh up to 20 tons, or 40,000 pounds. It has withstood traffic from horses and buggies on up […]

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ANDREW HASWELL GREEN BENCH, northern Central Park

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From the ForgottenBook: Climbing the Great Hill from Central Park West and 103rd Street, you follow a pathway for awhile, pass the Pool through Glen Span Arch, along a babbling brook known as Montayne’s Rivulet, and when you are in sight of Huddlestone Arch and the Lasker Rink, take a sharp detour to the right, […]

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FRANK BEE, Throg(g)’s Neck

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By GARY FONVILLE Forgotten NY correspondent Several large mass merchandise stores were patterned after the success of F.W. Woolworth, both large and small. Kresge (now K Mart), Lamston’s,  McCrory and this one, Frank Bee at 3437 E. Tremont Avenue between Otis Avenue and Bruckner Boulevard, in Throgg’s Neck, the Bronx took a cue from the […]

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OLOFF’S SHOES, East Williamsburg

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By GARY FONVILLE Forgotten NY correspondent Your webmaster Kevin Walsh missed this sign for the former Orloff Shoes at 753 Grand Street in East Williamsburgh, Brooklyn in a recent Grand Street entry in FNY. He would have never seen it because it was obscured very well by a fabric awning. I only stumbled upon it […]

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LIVONIA AVENUE, East New York

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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 Avenue, and Roosevelt Avenue all enjoy a few blocks in the open while having most of their routes hidden beneath the elevated tracks. Only Livonia Avenue in Brooklyn’s […]

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BICKFORD’S, Flatbush

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Across the street from The Flatbush Reformed Church and cemetery, and two doors down from historic Erasmus Hall High School, another chapter in Brooklyn history has been temporarily revealed at Flatbush and Church Avenues. A beautiful terra cotta Bickford’s restaurant facade has been revealed by the removal of a Liberty Income Tax storefront sign. Bickford’s […]

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GOODBYE ADMIRALS’ ROW, Fort Greene

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From the ForgottenBook… The New York Naval Shipyard, known popularly as the Brooklyn Navy Yard, was established by the federal government in 1801. Robert Fulton’s steamship was built here and launched in 1815; the battleship Maine in 1890, as well as the first angled-deck aircraft carrier, the Antietam, were also built at the Navy Yard. […]

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