The coal company helped the city survive winter

Stuart Davis was a New York artist of the 20th century best known for his playful Modernist paintings filled with bright colors and geometric shapes. But early in his career, he was influenced by the Ashcan School—and he stuck with the social realist style with this 1912 piece, Consumer […]

QUEENS 1930

As most Forgotten New York readers know, I enjoy maps, especially historic ones that show what the streets of NYC looked like in previous decades. Today, I’ll review an outline map of Queens I saw posted on Facebook by Todd Berkun. This outline map is […]