I was recently wandering around in Ridgewood for the first time in several months with the intent of getting new photos of its obscurities, which are numerous: I’ll enumerate them…

WHEN ambling around the area east of City Hall Park recently, I was surprised to find Theatre Alley completely open to the air and the elements, as opposed to the…

A lot of Queens posts this week…what can I say, that’s where I’ve been lately. Don’t worry, there’s plenty of material “in the can” for the four other boroughs which…

Between Waverly and Christopher just west of 6th Avenue is a short dogleg called Gay Street, which  contains a number of handsome Federal-style buildings and has a varied lore. The name…

Bonner Place is a true dead end, on the east side of Morris Avenue between East 163rd and 164th Streets. Older maps going back to the early 20th Century show…

Sound Street runs for only a block in Astoria, between 23rd Avenue and Astoria Boulevard, one-way south, yet it does bring traffic to a bridge crossing the Grand Central Parkway.…

There’s on odd little alley running between Empire Boulevard and Montgomery Street just east of Nostrand Avenue called Clove Road. Its only intersection is with a short piece of Malbone…

Tenney Place may be the shortest street in the Bronx that isn’t a dead end, and there may be dead ends longer than Tenney Place. The street runs for a…

I lived in Bay Ridge between 1957 and 1993; for those who usually don’t have to deal with people born in the 1950s, I am impossibly old now. I became…

The following is a transfer of a page written in 2010; the original photo galleries weren’t functioning. Therefore, some info may be outdated. Some of the photos were imported at…

While sitting around and stewing at home in rage and fear (as a participant in the gig economy I did that a lot even before the Great Infection of 2020)…

Once again, another obligation-packed weekend and work week under way, with actual paying work obligations combined with tour planning, actual tours and dentist appointments, and I’ve little time again to…