BEFORE Broadway became Manhattan’s signature Mother Road, the lane that would become the Bowery wound to the island’s upper reaches. It was a dirt trail etched by the bare feet and…

MANY of New York’s famous artists were born elsewhere and came to this city because it offers the biggest audience and market for creative expression. Keith Haring moved from Pennsylvania…

BACK in June I took a walk in Carroll Gardens and Gowanus; I may do a post on the walk, or release the photos in dribs and drabs, depending on…

ONE of Brooklyn’s lest-known and perhaps least-visited WWI memorials is at Bernard Weinberg Triangle, Tillary Street and Flatbush Avenue Extension, the southeast end of McLaughlin Park. This was originally the…

THIS building, #259 Front Street at Dover Street, as well as the two adjacent buildings on Dover, was constructed in 1808 for flour merchant David Lydig. He had gone into…

ACCORDING to sources such as the late Richard McDermott of The New York Chronicle and Steve Redlauer and Ellen Williams of “The Historic Shops & Restaurants of New York”, the Bridge Cafe, at…

FOLLOWING up on John Jay Park, 33 blocks to the north on the East River shoreline is another park named after a Founding Father, carved out of the street grid…

I have yet to do a definitive walk on Riverside Drive, though in 2012 a Forgotten NY tour marched from 72nd north to 125th, a trip that took us a…

YOU don’t see a lot of lengthy inscriptions in Dutch in NYC. There are street names, or perhaps slogans on borough flags (Brooklyn’s is “Eendracht maakt macht,” which translates to…

TAKE a walk south on East 15th Street from Gravesend Neck Road and opposite #2305 East 15th, freestanding house, you’ll see a group of 3-story multifamily buildings with balconies and…

CANAL Street is among the noisiest streets in New York City because it’s a major truck route. In the 1960s, NYC traffic czar Robert Moses was thwarted in his attempt…

MANHATTAN boasts a Manhattan Avenue on the Upper West Side, which runs from West 100th Street one block west of Central Park West north past Morningside Park to West 124th…