I squeezed off this photo while awaiting for the crowd to assemble for a Forgotten NY tour across the Manhattan and Brooklyn Bridges in June 2008. Forgotten NY tours were…

CECILIA, you’re breakin’ my heart. The St. Cecilia Church parish was founded in 1877, while its classic church building, nearly basilica-size at Herbert and North Henry Streets, was built from…

As a preview of an upcoming Bell Boulevard page, here’s one of the few cobblestone-exterior New York City dwellings. At 35-34 Bell Boulevard stands a magnificent two-story building with an…

THE twin-peaked William Van Nostrand House at Pembroke Avenue and 254th Street was built in the mid-1800s; before it was in the Van Nostrand family it had been owned by Capt.…

In the spring of 2016 I was teetering around the edge of Bedford-Stuyvesant on Fulton Street just east of Classon when I spotted this lengthy brown stucco-surfaced building at #1068.…

EVERY so often, I like to note place names that are unique to New York City and it’s likely I won’t find another Watchogue Road with a search on Google…

HERE’S a look at Furman Street from the Brooklyn Bridge. It runs nearly uninterrupted along the East River from Atlantic Avenue north to Old Fulton Street. It sits at the…

BEFORE revisiting Green-Wood Cemetery, where I haven’t been since the pandemic, I’m going over some highlights presented from past tours. It’s rather serendipitous that the founder of a major airline…

(No, he’s not forgotten, don’t quibble) EVEN the casual classical music fan knows the name Leonard Bernstein, especially if you’re over fifty. In the swinging Sixties, his “Young People’s Concerts”…

BEACH 90th Street is a station on the A train in the Rockaways, the first on the line after it crosses Jamaica Bay en route to Rockaway Park at Beach…

St. Andrew’s Church was consecrated here on Duane Street behind the Municipal Building in 1939, replacing an earlier church named Carroll Hall built in 1842. Just before the Civil War…

On a visit to see the remodeled Penn Station LIRR corridor in February 2023, I was meandering around the area when this tall brick building on West 34th just off…