Manhattan
I last traipsed around Inwood back in 2019, the same year FNY did a very successful tour of Inwood and its neighbor across the Harlem River, Marble Hill. Inwood was…
A short peninsula juts into Central Park Lake at about West 76th Street, affording stellar photo opportunities. “Hernshead” is Anglo-Saxon for “heron head” but according to the birdwatchers, the wading…
MANY of the Harlem River bridges have been lost over the years, including the Third Avenue and Willis Avenue bridges, which were replaced with new bridges several years ago. Before…
WE’VE been to the Lower East Side many times in the history of Forgotten-NY and each time we return there’s something old that we haven’t yet documented. The Tenement Museum…
THE modest townhouse at #86 Bedford was once one of NYC’s most popular hangouts for authors and other artistic types. Chumley’s is probably the only major bar or restaurant in New…
I knew I had seen this sidewalk sign for Corner Deli before, as I was pacing around the Upper East Side at #1400 2nd Avenue at East 73rd Street. It…
KEEP looking up! At building rooflines, that is. But be careful that the coast is clear, many New Yorkers have no tolerance for skyward gawkers, especially if they’re race walking…
To my eternal regret I completely missed what was a lamppost graveyard in Tribeca, now one of NYC’s most expensive neighborhoods, for many years in the 1970s and into the…
THE word “donnybrook” is derived from a public fair that was held in Donnybrook, Ireland beginning in the 1200s. By the 1800s, the Donnybrook Fair had a reputation of being a drunken, wild…
IT’S been three years since I walked 79th Street, Upper East and West Side, through Central Park, for a FNY Crosstown entry that hasn’t happened yet. FNY has a backlog…
As a rule, NYC streets are given designations, seemingly arbitrarily, by the engineer who is plotting the map years before buildings on the streets are actually constructed. In Manhattan, with…
My forays into Manhattan’s Upper East Side have been shamefully few; only a handful of times in the 26+ years and counting of Forgotten New York. That’s why I was…
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