“Few men in all history … have ever been made to suffer so bitterly and so inexpressibly as I because of the assertion of my achievement.” Was Dr. Frederick A.…
Monthly Archives
February 2001
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And now we come to one of the true hidden marvels of New York City, an ‘enchanted village’ a vision of one man’s mind. It’s located in Greenpoint, Brooklyn, the borough’s northernmost…
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New York City used to be an el town. Beginning in the 1870s on Ninth Avenue in Manhattan, dozens of elevated lines rose and swift travel over traffic-clogged streets became…
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These ain’t your usual pigeons perched in a tree on Campus Road near Brooklyn College. College visitors, treated to a flash of green and a squawk, scratch their hreads in…
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Back in June 1999, I entered the grounds of the old Flushing Airport, and got as far as the mud, the ticks, the mosquitoes, and the head-high weeds and reeds…