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Friday, February 20, 2015

Forgotten NY

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  • FORGOTTEN QUEENS AT NEIR’S TAVERN: TUES., FEB. 24 

    January 9, 2015 
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    Take a ForgottenTour Indoors® at Neir’s Tavern, one of Queens’ oldest watering holes (it opened in 1829, making it slightly older than me), when I will be showing off some photos from one of the hottest-selling Arcadia Books titles of 2014, Forgotten Queens, which I co-wrote with the Greater Astoria Historical Society. I’ll also have [...]
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  • LIVING AMONG THE DEAD, Evergreens Cemetery 

    February 19, 2015 
    Here’s one of the stranger stories concerning one of the major NYC cemeteries, Evergreens Cemetery, which is about evenly divided between Brooklyn and Queens, the westernmost burial city in the Cemetery Belt, which sprawls along the terminal moraine, or mountainous lands left by the retreat of the last glacier thousands of years ago, between the [...]
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  • GARLINGE TRIANGLE, Maspeth 

    February 18, 2015 
    Maspeth’s WWI Memorial is in a traffic triangle named for a local soldier, Walter Garlinge. Originally NYC Parks Department had posted a sign calling it “Garlinger Triangle” adding an incorrect R to the end of his name.  The memorial is at a band in Grand Avenue where it meets 57th Avenue and 72nd Place. The [...]
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  • VANISHED MAILBOXES 

    February 18, 2015 
    When I first started photography for Forgotten New York in 1998 there were still a number of these small mailboxes mounted on telephone poles, or even proprietary concrete posts, scattered in outlying areas around town, such as this one on West 254th Street in Riverdale, Bronx. In former years they were also mounted on castiron [...]
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  • GIVAN HOUSE, Baychester 

    February 17, 2015 
    There’s an unusual frame house on Mickle Avenue between Adee and Arnow Avenues that faces diagonally to the street on which it has an address. Usually, that’s a tipoff to an ancient or unusual history, and in this case, it doesn’t disappoint. ForgottenFan Don Gilligan, an area resident, writes, quoting the Chester Civic Newsletter: Recently, [...]
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  • SIGNS THAT GOT AWAY: replaced during the FNY Era 

    February 16, 2015 
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    Forgotten New York, as of March 2014, has been around 16 years, and I’m glad I’m still alive, well, and contributing. Since I’m almost discussing the site in terms of decades now, I’ve been going through envelope after envelope full of photos taken beginning in 1998 and re-scanning several worthy ones from that time. One [...]
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  • CHESTER ALAN ARTHUR, Madison Square 

    February 16, 2015 
    With his muttonchop sideburns, President Chester Alan Arthur (1830-1886) looked the very model of a modern U.S. President (in the Victorian Age), which he was between 1881 and 1885. Born in Vermont but a transplanted New Yorker, he was elected as James Garfield’s vice-president and assumed office when Garfield was assassinated. As President, he reformed [...]
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  • HAMILTON HEIGHTS to HARLEM, Manhattan 

    February 15, 2015 
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    There are still some parts of Manhattan I haven’t been in with regularity since I began photographing this website in 1998, and the area in the West 140s from St. Nicholas Avenue west to Riverside Drive has been one of those. Funny because I’ve spent a lot of time in the City College area, to [...]
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  • HOTEL LONGACRE, Times Square Area 

    February 15, 2015 
    photo: Marc Landman Here’s an ancient painted ad that’s been exposed for a few months on the north side of West 47th Street between 6th and 7th Avenues for the Hotel Longacre, showing the going rates for lodging from about a century ago. You could get a room for a buck, or with its own [...]
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  • OVERLOOKED CROOK, Hamilton Heights 

    February 14, 2015 
    Here’s a vintage Bishop Crook lamp that none of my reference materials cite — it’s completely forgotten and overlooked, on the west side of Riverside Drive between West 143rd and West 144th. It was installed anywhere between 1910 and 1940 and has lost its luminaire; the chocolate-colored paint has completely flaked off the crook, showing [...]
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