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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,…
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QUEENS Village, centered at Springfield Blvd. and Jamaica Avenue, was known originally as Little Plains, then Brushville, after a local landowner, until about 1920. The present elevated station was constructed in…
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QUEENS Village, centered at Springfield Blvd. and Jamaica Avenue, was known originally as Little Plains, then Brushville, after a local landowner, until about 1920. The present elevated station was constructed in…
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Continued from Part One EMPLOYING a backlog of photos from the spring of 2019, when I got on the #2 train and took it all the way down to the…