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Forgotten NY is a website about the hidden, out of the way and off the radar places that NYC guidebooks ignore.

05/29/2026

https://forgotten-ny.com/2026/05/smallpox-hospital-roosevelt-island-2/

Ruins of the Smallpox Hospital, built on the southern tip of the island, have recently been made more accessible to public view

05/27/2026

https://forgotten-ny.com/2026/05/forgotten-city-lights/

In the summer of 2010, I mounted an exhibit at the City Reliquary in Williamsburg that I put together with MTA employee Robert Mulero

05/26/2026

https://forgotten-ny.com/2026/05/pennyfield-avenue-throggs-neck/

Pennyfield Avenue has been called Throgs Neck Road and Fort Schuyler Road, but its present name comes from the colonial era

05/26/2026

https://forgotten-ny.com/2026/05/103rd-corona-lamps/

The MTA is updating all Flushing Line #7 stations to modern stations with higher windscreens, and replacements of the yellow sodium fixtures

05/25/2026

https://forgotten-ny.com/2012/05/national-cemetery/

There are a total of seventeen cemeteries in Cypress Hills on either side of the Brooklyn-Queens border. It’s a hilly area, where thousands of years ago a glacier was stopped…

05/25/2026

https://walshk.substack.com/p/riis-of-richmond-hill

Danish-born crusading journalist and photographer Jacob Riis (1849-1914) made his home in Richmond Hill, Queens, beginning in 1886.

05/24/2026

https://forgotten-ny.com/2026/05/salmon-tower/

Completed in 1928, the Salmon Tower has the months of the year with zodiac symbols personified in Romanesque bas-reliefs

05/22/2026

https://forgotten-ny.com/2026/05/the-lost-immaculate-hospital/

At 152-11 89th Avenue in Jamaica, Parkhill City luxury residences were built on the site of Mary Immaculate Hospital

05/21/2026

https://forgotten-ny.com/2026/05/return-to-tottenville-2025-part-2/

GOOGLE MAP: WALKING TOTTENVILLE 2025 Continued from Part One It had been since 2017 since I walked extensively around Tottenville, the southernmost point in New York State (it would be the…

05/21/2026

New on Substack!

Woodhaven and Ozone Park were settled in the 1600s by Dutch and English settlers, who gradually eased out Native Americans; Woodhaven became a racing hotbed in the 1820s when Union Course, at what is now Jamaica Avenue and Woodhaven Blvd.

05/20/2026

https://forgotten-ny.com/2026/05/astoria-hell-gate-arch/

The concrete arches, of which there are several north and south of 23rd Avenue in Astoria, are all different with no two looking the same

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