WINDSOR PLACE, Park Slope & Windsor Terrace

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I was on my way to a gathering in Caton Park recently when, noticing I had not been able to walk all that much during the week, decided to walk from the IND 7th Avenue station, a route that would take me through Park Slope south of 9th Avenue and then into Windsor Terrace. I’ve […]

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FORGOTTENTOUR INDOORS: QUEENS 1900-1970

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As part of Open House New York, on Saturday, October 15 I’m giving an indoor ForgottenTour with images from Queens in the years 1900 through 1970. See the many changes that have happened to NYC’s largest and most diverse borough with an emphasis on western Queens and Astoria. WHEN: Saturday, October 15, 2 PM WHERE: 4th floor, […]

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FLATIRON COWCATCHER, MADISON SQUARE

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In August and September 2013 I worked in the Madison Square area, and so got a daily look at the Flatiron Building, one of the first skyscrapers built with an iron frame. Its elevators helped usher in the Skyscraper Era in Manhattan, and soon buildings like the Singer Tower and the Woolworth Building would start […]

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POE PARK, Fordham

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Edgar Allan Poe was a man about town in New York in the 1840s: he lived in several different locales, and while during his Bronx tenure he wasn’t officially a New Yorker since Fordham wasn’t a part of NYC until 1874, we’ll overlook that technicality. Poe was born in Boston and lived in Providence, Baltimore, […]

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TYPE F, Bensonhurst

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New York  City’s Type F lampposts, one in a series of early 20th-Century lampposts named by letter from A to G, once lined side streets in Manhattan and the Bronx especially by the thousands. Today, only a few are left: this is one of a pair at 27th Avenue on a pedestrian crossing on the […]

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ALONG THE LIRR EL IN RICHMOND HILL

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Continuing my recent spate of stories about what the streets underneath elevated lines look like (Livonia Avenue, New Utrecht Avenue) I decided to head to an area I have appreciated for some time, downtown Richmond Hill at Jamaica Avenue and Lefferts Boulevard. There’s a healthy concentration of Forgotten New York – type artifacts concentrated in […]

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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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