AFTER a long cold winter when I couldn’t really get out because of snow, cold and wind from December through much of February, I have been making up a bit,…

THE Reformed Dutch Church of Hallets Cove (later Good Church of Deliverance) at 27-26 12th Street in Astoria Village was built in 1888; its verdigris’ed steeple replaced the original in 1900.…

THIS magnificent double-towered, triple-turreted former fire department headquarters on Jay Street just north of Willoughby contrasts with the rather less exuberant office buildings surrounding it. Designed in 1892 by Frank…

WAY back in 2015, the Long Island Garden Railway Society created several mock-ups of World’s Fair 1964-65 exhibitions and displayed them in the Queens Botanical Garden in Flushing, which I…

JENNY Faber, a member of the Faber pencil manufacturing family, lived in Port Richmond and in 1869 was granted a patent to the land along the Kill Van Kull in Port…

NEW York’s first water system was built between 1837 and 1842. Prior to those years, water was obtained from cisterns, wells and barrels from rain. Construction began in 1837 on a series…

LONG before the cluster of glass towers arose at Hudson Yards, Javits Center was the pioneer on the wild west side of Midtown Manhattan. It is not the biggest convention…

BY DAVID MELTZERForgotten New York guest post THERE are three parks in the southeast Bronx – Soundview Park, Pugsley Creek Park, and Ferry Point Park. But if you exit the…

This ad for Norge Appliances, seen on Main Street north of Craig Avenue in Tottenville, probably dates to the 1950s and was likely illuminated at some point. (Norge is what…

In the complicated Greenwich Village street layout, Jones Street, along with Cornelia, is a one-block street between West 4th and Bleecker west of 6th Avenue. It was named for Dr.…

I have a whole batch of Tottenville photos fired off in October 2025 I have not used yet. I have been there often over the years; I remember a bus…

AFTER having the list of city parks named after Irish-Americans deleted on Wikipedia for stupid reasons, I brought it back to life on this website. Following on that example, here…