WHAT is now called Shore Parkway was constructed as the Circumferential Parkway in 1940 but the official name was changed, soon enough, to Shore Parkway to the delight of sign…

Times Square seems like the least “forgotten” place in New York, but it is where this website had its start in 1997 with the fading ad for J.A. Keal’s Cariage…

CORONA, the neighborhood in Queens west of Flushing Meadows-Corona Park, has three separate historic firehouses, one of which is still used for its original purpose. I recently noticed two of…

WHILE working on a longform piece I realized I wouldn’t be done by the weekend, and while I wait for some kind of employment, the weekdays are available for walks…

LOCATED in the East River between Manhattan and Queens, two-mile long Roosevelt Island since 1971 has been the home of a small town of about 8,300 people in the midst…

In the summer of 2010, I was immensely happy to be able to mount an exhibit at the City Reliquary in Williamsburg that I put together with MTA employee Robert…

PENNYFIELD Avenue, the road to Fort Schuyler in Throg(g)s Neck (the DOT has one “g,” residents have two “g”‘s) runs from the Cross Bronx Expressway south to the fort, which…

THE platform lamps seen here at the 103rd Street station on the IRT Flushing Line (known as the 7 train) are interesting, as the sodium fixture, day burning here, was…

In this century, nearly every new high-rise in Manhattan is covered in glass with form, function, but no exterior ornamentation. On 42nd Street, the One Vanderbilt, Bank of America Tower,…

THE most unfortunate year for Queens in my recent memory must have been 2009. That was when the borough lost the Catholic-run Mary Immaculate Hospital in Jamaica and St. John’s…

GOOGLE MAP: WALKING TOTTENVILLE 2025 Continued from Part One It had been since 2017 since I walked extensively around Tottenville, the southernmost point in New York State (it would be the…

THE Hell Gate Bridge was the final piece in the puzzle of running railroad trains into Midtown Manhattan. The tubes connecting Long Island with Penn Station opened in 1910, and Hell…