2018

Though the Grand Concourse in the Bronx is filled, top to bottom, with Art Deco and Moderne masterpieces, one of its most intriguing buildings is sedately set back from the…

The following first appeared in Huffington Post on 11/21/2009. The “Huff Post” does not pay contributors, so I didn’t stick around very long. I lived on the outskirts of the…

Dag Hammarskjöld Plaza runs from 2nd Avenue east to 1st Avenue at East 47th Street, constructed by the NYC Parks department shortly after the UN opened on 1st Avenue in…

I took a number of walks in mid-December before a 2+ week deep freeze set in after Christmas, and a few of these occurred on some days that were quite…

There’s a 3-story Italianate brownstone building at 102 Willow Street just off Clark, a handsome building on  a street full of them in a neighborhood full of them (Indeed, NYC’s…

Though innumerable glass towers are now going up in Queens Plaza and Hunters Point, one of the most notable buildings in western Queens turns 110 years old this year. The…

The map of Brooklyn has changed surprisingly little, at least on paper, since 1922. One exception to this is in the Dyker Beach Park area, where a number of streets…

Myrtle Avenue, which runs from MetroTech in downtown Brooklyn all the way out east to Jamaica Avenue at Lefferts Boulevard in Queens, represents a lost opportunity for me, a treasure…

Though Dutch immigrants had established some homes and farms in Brownsville and East New York in the 1700s, the area did not gel as a community until the early-to-middle 1800s.…