Word has recently come that the Department of Transportation intends to raze the pedestrian bridge that crosses the Long Island Rail Road at 216th Street, which has been a handy…
Monthly Archives
November 2016
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Continued from Page 1 It’s become something of a series. A few years ago I set off under the Westchester Avenue El between Parkchester and Pelham Bay Park in the…
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Only a few horse troughs, or drinking fountains, remain around town. I’ve noted ones placed by The American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals and funded by Edith…
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Who knows how long this painted ad for Sears, Roebuck has been visible on a brick building on Richmond Terrace and Taylor Street. I last did a survey of Richmond…
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Inscribed with the words “Our Strength Is Our Heritage, Our Heritage Is Our Life” this mural at 232 East Broadway east of Clinton Street depicted major events in Jewish history…
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There’s a park trail in Van Cortlandt Park that was once a railroad. It can be reached by walking east through the park directly from the W 242nd Street stop on…
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It’s become something of a series. A few years ago I set off under the Westchester Avenue El between Parkchester and Pelham Bay Park in the Bronx, and finished off…
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Concert Grove is a formal European-style garden designed to look out over a small island in Prospect Park Lake containing a performance stage where the popular bands of the day…
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Brooklyn’s Smith Street, located in Cobble Hill and Carroll Gardens, has turned into a Restaurant Row in recent years (rising rents have forced something of a pullback) but Queens’ Smith…