THE PERVERSITY OF STREET SIGN REPLACEMENT
Forgotten New York - For the past five years, the Department of Transportation has slowly been replacing street signs with new ones that feature the Clearview typefont in upper and lower case,...
View ArticleNYC’S RAILROAD GRADE CROSSINGS, Part 3
Forgotten New York - CONTINUED FROM PART 2 I have an affinity for subways, trains and railroads… not at the “foamer” level, but I have enough knowledge to recognize model numbers on most NYC,…...
View ArticleMASPETH TO WOODHAVEN: A Forgotten NY walk, Part 1
Forgotten New York - Every couple of weeks I grab the camera and walk for a few miles; I wish it was more than that, but I’d have to be underemployed again. In late… Forgotten New York -
View ArticleMASPETH TO WOODHAVEN, Part 2
Forgotten New York - Continued from Part 1 Every couple of weeks I grab the camera and walk for a few miles; I wish it was more than that, but I’d have to be… Forgotten New York -
View ArticleUNDERPASS LAMP, Glendale
Forgotten New York - Here’s a variety of lamp in NYC getting increasingly rarer. Unfortunately I have no info on the brand, but these began appearing on underpasses in the 1970s when yellow sodium…...
View ArticleMIXED BAG Part 3
Forgotten New York - I had fun doing FNY’s second Mixed Bag page from two weeks ago, which featured photos taken in January 2017 on my IPhone, so I decided to do another one… Forgotten New York -
View ArticleARCHIE BUNKER’S PLACE, Glendale
Forgotten New York - Several New York City neighborhoods come together in the triangle of territory opposite St. John’s Cemetery formed by Cooper Avenue, Metropolitan Avenue, and Woodhaven Boulevard. I...
View ArticleCOUNTY SLIGO, Glendale
Forgotten New York - It had been awhile…perhaps since before the pandemic began in 2020…that I had been in Glendale. It’s a hike from any of the buses that run from the LIRR in… Forgotten New York -
View ArticleWILLIAMSBURG TO GLENDALE
Forgotten New York - Continued from Across the Creek: July 4th in Greenpoint I have not taken many lengthy walks in the summer of 2022 and the last really ambitious one I did was… Forgotten New York -
View ArticleMYRTLE MEMORIALS
Forgotten New York - WHEN looking for appropriate material for Memorial Day weekend my thoughts turned to Myrtle Avenue, a lengthy street that is about equal parts in Brooklyn and Queens, and I...
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