2011

The Ruby M. tugboat accompanies a barge in Upper New York Bay, September 10, 2011. Built in 1967, by Jakobson Shipyard of Oyster Bay, New York (hull #433) as the Texaco…

Checker cab, Forest Ave and Manor Road, Westerleigh, Staten Island. At the height of the vehicle’s popularity in the roaring 20’s, there were as many as 8,000 Checker cabs plying the roads…

I have done two previous surveys of Rosebank, a small town on the southeast edge of Staten Island bordered by the SIRT cut, the Verrazano Bridge approach, and the Staten…

[Located at Manor road and Martling Avenue in Castleton Corners], the Manor Road Armory and its signature three-story towers and corner turrets was noted as “a unique contributor to the…

Victory Boulevard and Jewett Avenue, Staten Island. 10 years after terrorists destroyed the World Trade Center, attacked the Pentagon and attempted to level the Capitol or White House, painted murals…

I saw the USS New York from the ferry on Saturday. Though it could be mistaken by the layman for an aircraft carrier, the vessel is actually classified as an…

1936-vintage lamppost at Tunnel Entrance Street at the Queens Midtown Tunnel in Murray Hill.  Somehow, the original fixtures, futuristic-looking in the 1930s, have survived. They seem to be precursors of…

Since shortly after the 9/11/01 terrorist attack a lot at Mulry Square, the Greenwich Village intersection of 7th Avenue South, West 11th and Greenwich Avenue, had had its chain link…

9/10/11: Silt running from overflowed upstate streams, courtesy Tropical Storms Irene and Lee, has left the Hudson River with an unusual reddish color.

Flatbush Avenue near 7th, Park Slope. A look at some interlocking brickwork, elaborate molding, and lettering at the peak of an apartment building. From 1880-1915 or so, architects helpfully showed…

Not a Photoshop filter — the intersection of Broadway and 73rd Street in Jackson Heights, through a colored window panel at the Bway-74th Street el station.

Bob Diamond, who explored and later instituted tours in the long-defunct Atlantic Avenue Tunnel, attempted to reinstitute a trolley line from Red Hook to downtown Brooklyn along Columbia Street in…