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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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.…
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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…
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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…
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So the word has come down that another NYC classic diner, the Neptune, at Astoria Boulevard and 31st Street, will close at the end of business on July 28, 2024.…