THERE is a curious-looking “ghost street” in Wakefield, a curved dirt pedestrian path along the stone wall that marks the south end of the 239th Street subway yard serving #2…

BEING a world-famous webmaster (sort of) means that, on occasion, people send you things, completely unbidden. In September 2020 I got a big box of stuff sent by a woman…

St. Sebastian’s Church at Roosevelt Avenue and 58th Street across the street from Donovan’s (some parishioners cross 58th directly after Mass to bend the bar) was founded in 1894, with…

HERE’S a golden oldie that may be as old as 1892 on Division Street just east of the Bowery at Chatham Square. El riders likely got a good look at…

Continued from Part 1 In June 2024, in nearly perfect shooting conditions and low humidity, I was able to execute a walk of several miles in Bay Ridge. My plan…

I have passed The Corner Deli in Woodside, 69th Street 65th Place at Laurel Hill Boulevard facing the Brooklyn-Queens expressway and opposite the James Novello Winfield War Memorial, quite a…

LAKEVILLE ROAD is a major north-south thoroughfare in western Nassau County, part of a much longer road running from Kings Point south to Jericho Turnpike in New Hyde Park. North…

TODAY, I offer a shot of an ordinary residential Queens street just south of 76th Avenue in the shadow of the Long Island Jewish Medical Center, where I have visited…

In early 2020, while Covid-19 was raging, I had some idle months. One day in July I took the Q36 bus down Little Neck Parkway to Floral Park, just south…

JUST knowing something of interest is there can be enough, even if you never have the opportunity to see it. A lengthy storefront at Church Avenue and Dahill Road was…

I have many homes. I lived in Flushing for 14 years and have lived in Little Neck for over 17 now. I went to school on the Bedford Stuyvesant-Clinton Hill…

In the winter of 2024-2025 I covered a great deal of the Lower East Side and East Village, on Avenues A through D. Still plagued by age-related back issues, I…