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Forgotten New York is a website created by Kevin Walsh (born 1958) [1] 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. [2]
This category is for former neighborhoods of New York City, which generally represent an ethnic or social aspect of the city that has passed into history. Subcategories This category has only the following subcategory.
Approximate locations of some past and present Manhattan neighborhoods. This is a list of neighborhoods in the New York City borough of Manhattan arranged geographically from the north of the island to the south. The following approximate definitions are used: Upper Manhattan is the area above 96th Street.
The New York Public Library's Epiphany branch on East 23rd Street. The New York Public Library (NYPL) operates two branches in the neighborhood: The Epiphany branch is located at 228 East 23rd Street. The Epiphany branch opened in 1887 and moved to its current structure, a two-story Carnegie library, in 1907. It was renovated from 1982 to 1984 ...
New York City is split up into five boroughs: the Bronx, Brooklyn, Manhattan, Queens, and Staten Island.Each borough has the same boundaries as a county of the state. The county governments were dissolved when the city consolidated in 1898, along with all city, town, and village governments within each county.
In the 1920s, the company developed a neighborhood over a portion of shipping tycoon Carlos W. Munson's estate in Flower Hill, New York. [2] Its former real estate office building for Fiske Terrace is now a station house for the New York City Subway's Avenue H station, at the corner of Avenue H and East
Manhattanville (also known as West Harlem or West Central Harlem, after its location near Harlem) [4] is a neighborhood in the New York City borough of Manhattan.It is bordered on the north by 135th Street; on the south by 122nd and 125th Streets; on the west by Hudson River; and on the east by Adam Clayton Powell Jr. Boulevard and the campus of City College.
The New York Public Library (NYPL) operates two branches near Yorkville. The Yorkville branch is located at 222 East 79th Street. The branch, a Carnegie library, opened in 1902 and was renovated in 1986–1987. The three-story space is listed on the New York State Register of Historic Places and the National Register of Historic Places. [44]