AQUEDUCT Walk in Fordham is seen here on West Fordham Road between University and Grand avenues. Back in June 2018 I walked a good deal of the walk, which in…

PRIOR to 2019 or so, the south side of Delancey Street between Essex and Clinton Streets was undeveloped territory, with lots that were empty or given over to parking. That…

If you haven’t read Lewis Carroll’s two books featuring his heroine Alice Liddell, “Adventures in Wonderland” and “Through the Looking Glass” (I admit I haven’t since I was a kid,…

I have not often mentioned 5th Avenue’s signature stoplight, the Mercury, a bronze pole with red and green lamps placed catercorner on 5th Avenue from Washington Square to 59th Street…

CHRISTIAN imagery abounds on Carroll Street between 6th and 7th Avenues in Park Slope, even on the non-ecclesiastical buildings. Across the street from Francis Xavier Church is what probably used to be…

BACK at the end of July 2021, when i could still walk long distance without various pains here and there (I’d like to return to those days) I took a…

HERE’S a utility pole carrying power lines, telephone lines and cable TV lines, as well as wire devoted to other uses, at 38th Avenue and 57th Street in Woodside. Thousands…

OPENING the lid on a new year of Forgotten NY in Staten Island in 2026. During my last walk around St. George, Staten Island in January 2025, just over a…

YET another neighborhood I haven’t been in lately, but with the magic of Google Street View, I can visit anyway. Spuyten Duyvil is the very hilly corner of the Bronx…

A narrow tower on West 14th just off 6th was one of the last buildings constructed for Macy’s when the World’s Biggest Store occupied a complex of buildings on West…

ORANGE Street near Hicks Street in Brooklyn Heights is dominated by the 1849 Plymouth Church of the Pilgrims, where Henry Ward Beecher preached from the church’s opening until 1887. Beecher,…

INDULGE me for a day while I break my own rule and talk about one of the most photographed objects in Queens, including by me. When Donald Fagen of Steely…