September 2000

Before it was Tribeca, it was the Lower West Side…and it had a lot of cast-iron lamps. Take a look at a former woebegone area. We’ll talk about the coelacanth…

Tribeca, the Triangle Below Canal Street, was saved when Robert Moses’ plan to run the Cross-Manhattan Expressway over Broome Street was defeated. It saved a lot of ancient ads that call Tribeca home! New…

More than any other borough, Brooklyn pretty much adheres to the strict checkerboard grid system that was devised when its six towns coalesced into one city in the late 1800s.…

  The Soho Building, on Greene Street between Spring and Prince Streets, is home to NYC’s most unusual subway map…despite the fact that no subways run underneath it and that the…

In the heart of Jamaica, on a 4-block stretch of 89th Avenue between Jamaica Avenue and Sutphin Boulevard, there’s some gorgeous original red brick pavement that has never been sullied…

I worked at Macy’s between 2000-2004. I was proud to work as a copywriter at The World’s Biggest Store for four years. One of the added benefits of working there…

Forgotten Fan Jeff Saltzman (of the Streetlite Nuts website) accompanied me in the summer of 2000 on a tour of the tiny neighborhoods, barely in Queens, that cluster around Rockaway…