Forgotten New York - BORN and raised in Bay Ridge Brooklyn, me. And from the time Robert Moses dug a trench across the street from my house that wound up as the Gowanus Expressway,… Forgot...
https://forgotten-ny.com/2024/02/forest-place-bay-ridge-1923/
Forgotten New York - Continued from Part 2 GETTING tired of the One and Done series yet? I’m not, I’m having fun with it. My thinking is I’ll wrap up Manhattan, then wait a… Forgotte...
https://forgotten-ny.com/2024/02/one-and-done-manhattan-part-3/
Forgotten New York - Continued from Part 1 I still have grand dreams and ambitions. Publish a book and own my own place? Done years ago. Marriage? Make millions? Let’s not get crazy. However...
https://forgotten-ny.com/2024/02/one-and-done-manhattan-part-two/
Forgotten New York - I still have grand dreams and ambitions. Publish a book and own my own place? Done years ago. Marriage? Make millions? Let’s not get crazy. However, it popped into my…...
Forgotten New York - I have to admit, this one caught me by surprise after almost 25 years doing Forgotten New York. I was doing some Google Maps reconnaissance of Edgewater Park, a private…...
https://forgotten-ny.com/2023/12/washington-place-throggs-neck/
Forgotten New York - RED Hook Lane, in Downtown Brooklyn, can be added to the list of New York City streets that are nowhere near the locations they are named for, joining routes like… For...
https://forgotten-ny.com/2023/11/red-hook-lane-downtown-brooklyn/
Forgotten New York - My fascination of the narrow strip along Old Fulton Street where Brooklyn Heights meets DUMBO is ever-engrossing for me, as it has breathtaking views of Manhattan and inte...
https://forgotten-ny.com/2023/11/meet-me-at-vine-and-mckenny-brooklyn-heights/
Forgotten New York - I’ve been aware of Dennet Place, between Luquer and Nelson Streets just west of the IND elevated and Smith Street, since I first started perusing Hagstrom maps, specifi...
https://forgotten-ny.com/2023/10/dennet-place-carroll-gardens/
Forgotten New York - IT’S wrong to say that the Eastchester Bridge on Boston Road in the Bronx’s extreme northeast crosses over into Westchester County as the Hutchinson River does not for...
https://forgotten-ny.com/2023/08/the-good-place-eastchester/
Forgotten New York - DOUGHTY Street is one of a network of short streets and alleys adjacent to the Fulton Ferry landing that were built in the early 1800s, making them some of Brooklyn’s…...