One of the hallmarks of Greenwich Village is that it is filled with odd streets angles and intersections as well as a number of named alleys, Patchin Place, Grove Court,…

Deep in the streets of Woodhaven are a couple of remnants of Union Course, the racetrack that dominated the area before it was fully developed and streets laid out. Woodhaven and…

I don’t know about you, but when I see the term “Private Street,” I think of Riverdale, the Bronx.  I always thought that Riverdale has the most private streets, but…

For decades, the Department of Transportation hadn’t marked Depew Place, which today exists as an alley on East 45th Street under the Park Avenue Viaduct as it snakes its way…

At first hearing, “Culloden and Digby” sounds like a heavily-advertised TV law firm, or perhaps a brand of Worcestershire sauce, but they are actually a pair of streets in Woodhaven…

Hegney Place is one of those “ghost streets” that has never quite been expunged. The Department of Transportation chooses to mark it at both Westchester Avenue and at East 157th…

I discovered a very old lane in Charleston, or Kreischerville, Staten Island on 10/1/17 in an unusual circumstance: A Forgotten New York tour I was leading. The group was making…

ForgottenFan and NYC infrastructure collector Larry Rogak has tipped me off to the presence of a Queens alley heretofore undreamt of in my philosophy. If you look at paper Queens maps…

There are a pair of dead-end streets, Ridge and Bennett Courts, on 72nd Street between 3rd and 4th Avenues in Bay Ridge, my old hometown, so I’ve always been aware…

Inez Street is a dead end issuing from the north side of  fast and furious Hylan Boulevard at Lemon Creek Park, west of Seguine Avenue. This is an area that…

Jessie Court is a dead-end on Northern Boulevard on the north side of the street where it meets Browvale Lane, squeezed between a real estate office and a bank. It’s…

In 1999 I investigated and photographed a Canarsie dead end called Savage Lane, which I have found on only one map: the Colorprint NYC atlas produced by the American Map…