I will use a shot from Street View today. I have been past Washington and Park Avenues in Clinton Hill a few times over the last few years, but somehow…

On a warmish day in mid-April I decided to take a walk in the Chelsea area near the High Line, which as you know is the 1934 elevated freight railroad…

DUMBO, the section of Brooklyn beneath the Manhattan and Brooklyn Bridges, was by and large an industrial and maufacturing outpost for most of its existence; only lately has it become…

HERE’S a Forgotten NY touchstone at #109 West 17th (west of 6th Avenue) I have come back to over and over since its location was pointed out to me by…

BELIEVE it or not a set of these metal “Whitestone” poles, complete with SLECO “cuplights” could be seen at the Queens side of the Roosevelt Island Bridge at Vernon Boulevard…

In a realm where dead end alleys are few and far between, many years ago during my bicycle rides throughout Brooklyn I noted Dahl Court, a pleasant cul de sac…

Last week I posted an item about Stier Place in Ridgewood, whose highlight is the 1916 Ridgewood Democratic Club. Sergey mentioned he has some photos from the interior… INSIDE the…

As this sign at the erstwhile JFK Commuter Plaza…otherwise known as “Queens Plaza”, proclaims, the Queensboro Bridge was “renamed” for popular NYC three-term mayor from 1977-1989, Edward I. Koch, in…

We don’t have time machines. Oh, the changes I’d make if I could go back in time. However, we do have photographs, archives and maps to show us what things…

From FNY’s first Ridgewood page in 2005: In the first decade of the 20th Century Paul Stier built more than 750 houses in Ridgewood under his own name, and after…

THERE’S only one street in NYC officially named Walsh (my name) in NYC, the one-block Walsh Court between East 3rd and 5th (East 4th does not intersect) along the LIRR…

At the corner of 122nd Street and Third Avenue in East Harlem is a set of residential towers whose appearance stands out among its neighbors. The name, flags and murals…