St. Raphael’s Church, named for an archangel, dominates views from Hunters Point, Blissville, Calvary Cemetery, and Sunnyside. It was built in 1885 here at Greenpoint and Hunters Point Avenues and replaced…
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I was once again drawn like a magnet to the Meatpacking District on Greenwich Village’s far west side, which is one of those neighborhoods that has been reinvented twice over…since…
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NONPAVED roads are now quite rare in NYC, but I have one all the way in the north end of Riverdale in the Bronx, between Spender and Huxley Avenues south…
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No, the beloved deli “appetizing” institution, Russ & Daughters, is hardly “forgotten,” but this is also a signage and infrastructure blog, so I thought I’d point out something I found…
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CONCORD Street and Duffield Streets are a pair of Brooklyn streets that can’t be neatly fitted into a neighborhood. They are too far east to be in Brooklyn Heights, too…
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SINCE Brooklyn and Manhattan do not share a land border, with the East River providing the undefended separation between the two boroughs, getting street scenes of the two boroughs in…
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I don’t get down to Far Rockaway that much, alas. In fact, it’s been a decade (as of 2023) since I have done a deep dive down there. Fortunately, Sergey’s…
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Whenever I am caught inside with a camera, I am usually wisely thrown out. My friend FNY correspondent Sergey Kadinsky doesn’t run into that kind of trouble and got inside…
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JACKSON Heights is not named for President Andrew Jackson, as might be assumed. Instead, it’s named for the man who built Northern Boulevard. Northern Boulevard was built in 1859, and…
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Continued from Part 1 I feel varying amounts of home in whatever neighborhood I find myself in in New York City. But there are some in which I feel more…
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A few Fourths of July ago I took the #4 train to the end of the line at Jerome and Bainbridge Avenues to Woodlawn Cemetery. (A couple of years later,…
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FORGOTTEN New York, believe it or not, does get some complaints. A recent one (maybe the Comments section, Twitter, or Facebook) is that the book did not discuss enough Bedford-Stuyvesant,…