THIS painted ad for Kaufman Office Stores on Mott Avenue in Far Rockaway is considerably faded, but still recognizable, from when I first spotted it at the Dawn of Forgotten…

I have never lived in Sunnyside Gardens, but I always enjoy walking around in it. I had my eye on the place ever since arriving in Queens in 1993! The…

CRAZED from the unrelenting July heat and humidity, I was scuttling east on the Long Island Expressway south service road recently when I spotted the anomaly seen above. It’s a…

On July 5, 2024 I felt like getting in a boat, as July has been especially hot and humid this year even by recent standards. As I am chained to…

HARD to believe but it’s been since October 2017 since I was in Killmeyer’s, on Staten Island’s south shore, when I wrapped up a Forgotten NY tour there. This vintage…

As I have said recently I have been fascinated with the smaller directional signage found in IND stations built mostly in the 1930s. At the Greenpoint Avenue stop in Brooklyn,…

METROPOLITAN Avenue is one of the lengthiest routes between Brooklyn and Queens. It was first built in the mid-1810s as a toll road and was known as the Williamsburg and…

We didn’t have air conditioning in our apartment growing up. Then again, heat and humidity spells didn’t last quite as long in my youth as they do now. That’s likely…

ACCORDING to the NY Public Library website, the Brooklyn Business Library “has a reference collection of more than 100,000 volumes, a circulating collection of 30,000 books, internet access, electronic resources, 800…

I have long had a fascination with the land borders of New York City. I have traveled much of the “undefended” Queens-Nassau border, and did a multipart series in 2011.…

In February 2024 I walked the length of 37th Street from west to east, as part of FNY’s ongoing Crosstown series. I have yet to tackle it for a feature…

I have always held a fascination for Myrtle Avenue that goes all the way back to 1965. That’s the year my mother and I set off on foot for several…