If you look a street map of the southern Bronx, Brook Avenue seems to act oddly, running in a straight line north out of Mott Haven, but then curving northwest…

THANKSGIVING is a time for…walking. I have done some epics in the past, like a few years ago when I walked from Sunset Park to Maspeth, a distance of approximately…

As a rule, I am a passing observer on the daily scene. I don’t discuss politics either here or on social media, as my opinions will infuriate everyone, and today,…

As Midtown commuters know, Penn Station has been a complete morass of construction, at least for Long Island Rail Road customers, as the Metropolitan Transportation Authority is expanding the main…

YOU can observe a lot just by looking, as Yogi Berra used to say. For example, here’s a handsome brick building on Washington and st. Mark’s Avenues at the edge…

FORT Washington Avenue is one of the major north-south routes in Washington Heights, running from Broadway and West 159th to Fort Tryon Park at West 190th, running past NY Presbyterian…

GROVE Court in the Village can be found in a bend in Grove Street between Bedford and Hudson Streets. In fact if you look at a street map you will…

FROM the Forgotten New York archives of January 2018 comes this look at the first Squibb Bridge spanning Furman Street, from Squibb Park at Columbia Heights north of Cranberry Street…

I have begun to pay more attention to platform lighting on elevated subway stations, which comes in a variety of posts from the earliest ornate ones, to the purely functional…

THERE was a time, specifically back in the 1960s, when tiny signs like this, at 39th Street and 8th Avenue, were all you had to indicate a bus route as…

I am a fan of infrastructural elements in street layouts that aren’t shown on maps and consequently, I was unaware of until I bumped into them myself when out for…

Once again I have a weekend “off” when I turn things over to Sergey Kadinsky, who is ubiquitous. –Editor By SERGEY KADINSKYForgotten New York correspondent THE Bronx has a history…