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Monday, May 12, 2014

Wonderful Website: Forgotten New York

So much of NYC seems to disappear all the time and it is marvelous that there is this website which preserves so much of the more interesting aspects of NYC.

It is now celebrating its 15th Anniversary and I hope it has many more... Below is the latest postings on transit in NY 



  • AVENUE H, Brighton Line

    April 30, 2014
    title.ackerson I’m perhaps a day late and a dollar short with this one, but word recently trickled back to me that a Forgotten New York favorite, the Avenue H stationhouse, had had a makeover, after it survived a date with the wreckers’ in 2002. It was  given landmark status by the NYC Landmarks  Preservation Commission in [...]
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  • CORONA PLAZA

    April 22, 2014
    The IRT Flushing Line opened in stages between 1915 and 1928. The stations between Grand Central and Vernon-Jackson opened in 1915. Meanwhile, in Queens, the Hunters Point and Court House Square stations opened in November 1916, and the elevated stations out to 103rd/Corona Plaza in April 1917. There were 3 further extensions: to 111th Street in [...]
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  • EAST 105th STREET STATION, Canarsie

    February 22, 2014
    The East 105th Street station on the Canarsie BMT (the L train) is in a somewhat odd place for a subway stop — a dead end street with empty lots on one side and a Verizon administrative office on the other. The Breukelen Houses projects are a block south of it. Until 1973 this was [...]
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  • BROADWAY STATION, Flushing

    February 9, 2014
    Though I had been in Flushing repeatedly (for Mets games and to visit my friend Gary) it wasn’t until 1993 that I got more intimately familiar with the neighborhood, as I moved there to get closer to a job in Port Washington, Nassau County. My building was a few blocks away from the Long Island [...]
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  • NYC’s MOST OPULENT SUBWAY ENTRANCE

    January 19, 2014
    The 28th Street station on the Lexington Avenue IRT (e.g., the #6 train) is one of what I call the Original 28 — the original 28 stations built by the Interborough Rapid Transit subway company that opened in 1904, running from City Hall up Elm (since renamed Lafayette), 4th Avenue, Park Avenue, 42nd Street and [...]
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  • Here is some background information

Forgotten NY

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Forgotten New York is a website created by Kevin Walsh in 1999, chronicling the unnoticed and unchronicled aspects of New York City such as painted building ads, decades-old castiron lampposts, 18th-century houses, abandoned subway stations, trolley track remnants, out-of-the-way neighborhoods, and flashes of nature hidden in the midst of the big city.[1] In 2003, HarperCollins approached Walsh with the idea of turning the website into a book; Forgotten New York was published in September 2006.
Walsh released Forgotten Queens, a collaboration with the Greater Astoria Historical Society, in December 2013 on Arcadia Books and is currently working on a Forgotten NY e-book and plans a Forgotten NY app. He is also currently working on other projects within the site as well, such as a Forgotten Boston website. [2][3]

References

  1. "The Price of Progress?". Gotham Gazette. 1997-03-19. Retrieved 2008-03-03.
  2. Ben Gibberd (2007-07-29). "Children of Darkness". The New York Times. Retrieved 2008-03-03.
  3. Walsh, Kevin (2006). Forgotten New York: Views of a Lost Metropolis. Collins. p. 384. ISBN 0060754001.

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