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Forgotten New York’s 2nd tour of the 2012 season was Sunday, April 29th in Battery Park and Bowling Green. We met at South Ferry at noon and, once again, the weather was unusually spectacular for a ForgottenTour. That makes two in a row! We explored State Street, Bowling Green and Battery Park. We made over [...]
Categorized in: Tours
I’ve been asked to cover locales selected by Partners in Preservation, an organization sponsored by American Express that, in a partnership with the National Trust for Historic Preservation, awards preservation grants to historic locales across the country. After six years in existence, Partners in Preservation has selected New York as its focus in 2012. Through the partnership, American [...]
Categorized in: Forgotten Slices Tagged with: Bronx Norwood Woodlawn
Way, way back in August 2004 I did a page called Postcards from Down Under in which I showed off some postcards from the subway’s early days from 1904-1910. While my hard drive was in for repairs in May 2012, I was looking around in the collection for something to post (my recent photos were [...]
Categorized in: Subways & Trains Tagged with: subways
I’ve been asked to cover three locales selected by Partners in Preservation, an organization sponsored by American Express that, in a partnership with the National Trust for Historic Preservation, awards preservation grants to historic locales across the country. After six years in existence, Partners in Preservation has selected New York as its focus in 2012. Through the partnership, [...]
Categorized in: Street Scenes Tagged with: East Village Manhattan
The title card shows what is likely the last Bishop Crook wall bracket lamp in New York City — a genre that I don’t think was all that frequently found even in the olden age of cast iron NYC lampposts, 1900-1950. As a rule, when a wall bracket lamp was needed, the city turned to [...]
Categorized in: Forgotten Slices Street Lamps Tagged with: City Hall Manhattan
In 1958, a new streamlined lamppost — completely different than the ornate cast and wrought iron posts that then lit NYC streets, designed in the Beaux Arts era, 1890-1915 — appeared on Broadway on Murray Street opposite City Hall. It featured a stainless steel shaft with two slots, a curved mastarm, and a new luminaire [...]
Categorized in: One Shots Street Lamps Tagged with: City Hall
I’ve been asked to cover three locales selected by Partners in Preservation, an organization sponsored by American Express that, in a partnership with the National Trust for Historic Preservation, awards preservation grants to historic locales across the country. After six years in existence, Partners in Preservation has selected New York as its focus in 2012. Through the partnership, [...]
Categorized in: Street Scenes Tagged with: Flushing Queens
James H. Hackett (1800-1871), whom Abraham Lincoln called his favorite actor, reposes at Prospect Cemetery in Jamaica, Queens, under a fallen monument. The Prospect Cemetery Association hopes to restore it soon. Actor Peter Riegert (Animal House, Local Hero, Sopranos) has made a short Kickstarter film about the largely forgotten entertainment figure and the now-reviving cemetery in [...]
Categorized in: Cemeteries One Shots Tagged with: Jamaica Queens
I’ve been asked to cover three locales selected by Partners in Preservation, an organization sponsored by American Express that, in a partnership with the National Trust for Historic Preservation, awards preservation grants to historic locales across the country. After six years in existence, Partners in Preservation has selected New York as its focus in 2012. [...]
Categorized in: Street Scenes Tagged with: Flushing Meadows. statues Queens
Forgotten New York’s first tour of the 2012 season was April 12th in Jamaica, Queens, at Prospect Cemetery (159th Street between Archer and Liberty Avenues) and King Manor (Jamaica Avenue at 153rd Street). The weather was unusually spectacular for a ForgottenTour. Jamaica’s Prospect Cemetery was founded in 1668. After many years of neglect, the cemetery [...]
