WHEN I lived in eastern Flushing from 1993-2007, I didn’t recognize this structure on the Flushing-Auburndale border at Northern Boulevard and 165th Street for the artifact it was. At the…

NATHAN Hale Court is one of a number of apartment houses on Eastyern Parrkway near Franklin Avenue with patriotic names; the Thomas Jefferson is nearby. The name Nathan Hale is synonymous with…

I have always had a fascination for the structure in the wedge of territory between Lafayette and Mulberry where they meet Bleecker. Right now the building comes to one of…

THE Moore Street Retail Market in East Williamsburg is a LaGuardia-era establishment on Humboldt Street, stretching from Moore to Varet Streets. Filled with produce vendors, small food stalls, crafts-makers and…

QUITE a few years have passed since I strode Van Duzer Street and St. Paul’s Avenue in Stapleton. Of late I have been revisiting locales where I have not been…

NOT that I would know, but one comment on the Flickr page where I got this image of the Golden Lady strip club at Bruckner Boulevard and East 133rd in…

I recently walked much of East and West 45th, which will eventually turn up in an FNY Crosstown page. On the street, I worked for 6 straight years at what…

In May 2024 I walked the length of Bailey Avenue in Kingsbridge Heights, named for late 1800s landowner Nathaniel Platt Bailey. I never photograph 3072 Bailey Avenue at West 231st…

On a visit to Bay Ridge in June 2024, I got a photo of the Emphasis Diner on 4th Avenue and Bay Ridge Avenue (69th Street). It’s in a propitious…

I have nothing historical to note or anything horrible to complain about here in Astoria at 30th Drive and 29th Street, except to take note of this “overstuffed” telephone pole.…

TIRED of the unrelenting dead canine humidity of NYC summer? It’s humid and getting humider, year after year. Here’s a winter 2021 view of Station Road along the Long Island…

YOU just don’t see beautifully curved glass like this on store windows anymore, and handlettered signs like this are rare too. Squint and you can see the house numbered rendered…