November 2007

Walking down West 21st Street in Chelsearecently I spotted a classic car parked by the sidewalk, and a not-so-quick online search revealed that it was a Studebaker Gran Turismo Hawk, one…

Jahn’s chain of ice cream shoppes once covered the NYC metropolitan area with a heady combination of lactose and sucrose. The first Jahn’s was opened way back in 1897 in Mott…

I hadn’t even gone looking for 213 Pearl Street, which is why I didn’t aim my camera at it when I first shot it in late 2006 (it’s the builing off…

I’ll admit it, I had never ventured into the Bright Food Shop at 8th Avenue and West 21st Street in Chelsea. An old NY Magazine review said: Sit with your morning cup of Joe…

All five NYC boroughs have a Grand Street or Grand Avenue (Brooklyn’s Grand Street and Queens’ Grand Avenue run continuously). The late Bronx historian John McNamara, in History in Asphalt, claims the Bronx’…

Continuing my exploration of the neighborhood my parents warned me against as a kid due to the presence of “bad boys”, this time we’ll stick a bit closer to the water at…

An explanation for the title, I suppose, is in order. Your webmaster has been a NYC explorer since boyhood; I used to make my parents or grandmother take me on bus…

Walking down 13th Street one day in November 2007, upon reaching 5th Avenue I was amazed to see that a building that hosted one of the premier clubs during my youth…

A few months ago FNY took you on a tour of the eastern end of Jamaica Avenue in Floral Park and Bellerose, the part that was recently renamed Jericho Turnpike…

The ghost of George Washington is all over New York City. There he is taking the oath of office at Federal Hall at Wall and Nassau Streets…he’s bidding farewell to…

On Fridays, Barbara Corcoran, queen of New York realtors, had a column in the Daily News and takes questions from prospective buyers, sellers, and renovators.   One of the questions on Friday, November 9th, 2007, was…

Look at any street map of Borough Park that includes subways and you will see that the BMT West End line travels in a right of way north of 39th Street, turns south…