“Ok, we’re back and here it comes for ONE MILLION DOLLARS! Which former Joey Bishop sidekick, cookbook author, singer and fitness video auteur not only has the most popular show on ABC in decades, but his very own street in the Bronx?” A. Sonny Fox; B. Durward Kirby; C. Robert Q. Lewis; D. Regis Philbin? [...]
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Monthly Archives: May 2013
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REGIS PHILBIN AVENUE. Who wants to be on a street sign?
March 29, 2000Categorized in: Signs Street Scenes Tagged with: Bronx Regis Philbin
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GRAND OLE OPPY
March 20, 2000
Back in the 1940s, every once in awhile, subway cars and stations would become sort of unkempt, and people could be less than courteous. Maybe there’d be a candy wrapper on the platform. Maybe a gent would forget to hold a door for a lady. And shockingly, every so often, someone would try to sneak [...]
Categorized in: Signs Subways & Trains Tagged with: Brooklyn Manhattan signs
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RED HOOK TROLLEY REVIVAL
March 17, 2000Are trolleys truly extinct? According to the City of New York, they are. But for a brief shining moment in Brooklyn, they weren’t. There was a Jurassic Park-like experiment that went on in remote Red Hook, Brooklyn, where a Flatbush resident named Bob Diamond dreamt of returning trolley cars to their rightful place on the [...]
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HOSPITAL OF THE DAMNED
March 10, 2000In the center of Staten Island there is a place of odd, derelict beauty and Stygian, impenetrable ruin. It is located in the Seaview Hospital complex on Brielle Avenue, Willowbrook, Staten Island, where the once-gorgeous Women’s Ward Pavilion has been allowed to disintegrate and crumble for the past 35 years. In 2000 I was asked to accompany [...]
Categorized in: Street Scenes Tagged with: Staten Island Willowbrook
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MR. STEINWAY, MEET MR. KREISCHER
March 2, 2000The Steinway Family, the master piano builders, transit magnates, and resort developers, and the Kreischers, the brick makers who left their mark on far-flung New York City neighborhoods, put a personal stamp on the neighborhoods in which they resided, and these stamps are visible even today. Henry Steinweg, a German piano manufacturer, emigrated to [...]
Categorized in: Street Scenes Tagged with: Astoria Bloomingdale Kreischer Sandy Ground Steinway