WHILE wandering around in lower Manhattan in 2018, I spotted a rather forbidding-looking building at #102-104 Greenwich, just north of Rector (and one of my favorite lunch joints, George’s Restaurant).…

THOUGH Teddy Roosevelt has left the entrance of the Museum of Natural History on Central Park West (he is going to the Theodore Roosevelt Presidential Library in Medora, ND in…

In the mid-20th Century, the street map of Fort Greene was drastically changed when multiple housing projects such as the Raymond Ingersoll, University Towers and Walt Whitman Houses were all…

Here is a second entry in The Forgotten NY Overlooked Series, in which I revive old pages that somehow were not converted when FNY changed layouts and hosting services in…

Something a little unusual today: an FNY page composed in 2010 that somehow was left off the two site reconstructions done in 2011 and 2019. Some of this info may…

WHEN looking for appropriate material for Memorial Day weekend my thoughts turned to Myrtle Avenue, a lengthy street that is about equal parts in Brooklyn and Queens, and I remembered…

UNMARKED on street maps and un-signed by the Department of Transportation, Stable Court is a crack of pavement between Two Cooper Square, an upscale highrise with a rooftop pool (a…

SOME of NYC’s narrowest parks can be found on either side of the Prospect Expressway, which runs in an open cut through Windsor Terrace, that narrow strip of territory between…

ONGOING renovations at the Long Island Rail Road Woodside complex (it was last re-done between 1995 and 1998 and requires an overhaul) have revealed a “To Shea Stadium” sign at…

BETWEEN 2011 and 2018, before the Zoom era began in earnest, when I wasn’t working I would report two or three times a week to the The Quinn-Morisco Funeral Home,…

SINCE I haven’t been able to get out much, I have decided to continue my recently minted series Where It All Begins, that employs the magic of Google Street View…

HERE’S 488 Broadway at Broome Street, the Haughwout (pronounced HA-wout) Building. Some architectural experts call it the most beautiful castiron building in NYC. It has competition there especially in Soho, but…