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.…

I have never lived in Sunnyside Gardens, but I always enjoy walking around in it. I had my eye on the place ever since arriving in Queens in 1993! The…

HARD to believe but it’s been since October 2017 since I was in Killmeyer’s, on Staten Island’s south shore, when I wrapped up a Forgotten NY tour there. This vintage…

METROPOLITAN Avenue is one of the lengthiest routes between Brooklyn and Queens. It was first built in the mid-1810s as a toll road and was known as the Williamsburg and…

ACCORDING to the NY Public Library website, the Brooklyn Business Library “has a reference collection of more than 100,000 volumes, a circulating collection of 30,000 books, internet access, electronic resources, 800…

In February 2024 I walked the length of 37th Street from west to east, as part of FNY’s ongoing Crosstown series. I have yet to tackle it for a feature…

ALMOST unnoticeable, a bust of social reformer Jacob Riis can be found at the pavilion on the boardwalk in his namesake park on the Rockaway peninsula near the Marine Parkway…

I was in the New-York Historical Society on July 4th, 2024 puttering around the exhibits, when i saw a rectangular post in a glass case, marked with a “4” on…

FOR some time I wondered about the original purpose of this Greek temple on the Riverside Drive viaduct just south of West 135th Street. I recently discovered it: historian Fred…

As a kid, I was far from amiable. Pretty much all I wanted to do was read, or fill writing tablets with drawings of lampposts. My parents’ constant refrain was,…

MANY think I have nothing good to say about new architecture. Nonsense. Here’s a new building I like, at #78 Amity Street, on the corner of Hicks. It employs classic…

HERE’S a 1930s look at Feitsen’s Drug Store in the 1930s, on 45th Avenue and 147th Street. Out of the picture across the street are Parsons Boulevard and Flushing Hospital…