When I visited San Fran in 2008 I made sure to visit some of the picturesque dead ends and alleyways, of which most of the city is rife (there just…

The area of Manhattan east of City Hall and between the Manhattan and Brooklyn Bridge underwent drastic changes in the 20th Century…   Most of the streets seen on this…

I was walking up Henry Street in the Lower East Side recently, taking photos for a future examination of the street, when I encountered a Forgotten NY treasure that I…

Patchin Place, a dead end squeezed onto the north side of West 10th Street between 6th Avenue and Greenwich Avenue, has its own intrinsic charms, but it’s notable because Manhattan…

You’ll have to use a little imagination, but stroll down curving 8th Road, a short alley between 149th and 150th Streets south of 8th Avenue, and the rural past of…

This is likely the only street in New York City named for a Swedish botanist (Carl von Linné). Carolus Linnaeus (1707-1778) developed the modern taxonomic naming system used by scientists for living…

Now and then when I’m feeling ambitious, and a glimmer appears in the back of my mind about getting in better shape, I take the subway up to Washington Heights…

This all got started with a screen capture from Forgotten NY correspondent Sergey Kadinsky, who sent me a photo of a strangely-named Queens street and asked me if I knew…

Essex Market Place was a one-block alley running from Ludlow to Essex, between Grand and Broome. According to Gil Tauber at oldstreets.com, it was eliminated in 1926. Today the space…

“Liberty” is one of the few words you can type using 4 consecutive letters on a QWERTY keyboard. After getting that out of the way, you’ll pardon me this week…

Elmhurst has more alleys than you might think, and some didn’t start out as alleys, like Claremont Terrace, a dirt road off Dongan Avenue, all that is left of the…

As far as I can tell, there are four “L”-shaped streets in Manhattan, and I just featured one a few days ago (August 2013): Shinbone Alley, a now-privatized lane in…