EAST River Tower, 11-24 31st Avenue, is a new 20-story luxury building that towers over the competition in gentrifying Ravenswood, Queens, from this view from Carl Schurz Park on Manhattan’s…

BOWLING GREEN is still mapped as a street, a short connector between Broadway and Whitehall Street just east of Battery Park. Its adjoining triangle park, featuring the Delacorte Fountain, is…

THE tug Stephen B assists the barge John Blanche in the East River on a recent weekend afternoon. Behind it is the “gentrified” Domino Sugar refinery on the waterfront, which…

A short peninsula juts into Central Park Lake at about West 76th Street, affording stellar photo opportunities. “Hernshead” is Anglo-Saxon for “heron head” but according to the birdwatchers, the wading…

I made another visit to Red Hook in August 2024, but I haven’t done a full page review yet because I don’t think I can surpass my other Red Hook…

MANY of the Harlem River bridges have been lost over the years, including the Third Avenue and Willis Avenue bridges, which were replaced with new bridges several years ago. Before…

On Wednesday, October 15th, Greater Astoria Historical Society‘s 40th Anniversary was celebrated. While western Queens is the primary focus of its activities, GAHS has a hand (and a foot) in…

A few wooden pilings and some crumbling concrete are all that remains of the Perth Amboy ferry landing at Bentley Street in Tottenville, Staten Island, the end of the line…

WHILE going through the batch of ancient Queens photographs that led to the publication of “Forgotten Queens” with the Greater Astoria Historical Society, I came upon this shot labeled Astoria…

PARAMOUNT Theatre, at 560 Bay Street near Prospect, is now likely Staten Island’s premier ‘ghost theater’ now that the St. George has been restored and reactivated. It was designed by…

TOMPKINS Lodge 471, #514 Bay Street at Sands Street, is a classical-style Masonic Temple that has not been repurposed as so many Masonic halls around towns have been, as it’s…

THE lots of 2744 Kingsbridge Terrace and neighboring 2748 were owned in the early 20th Century by German immigrant, piano factory superintendent Frederick Schill. In 1911, Schill filed plans for…