Is there anyplace more inviting than a classic railroad-car diner? It’s a matter of taste of course, in more ways than one. I’d eat in one every day, but my cholesterol…

FALCONRY is the art of training birds of prey to catch game (in which they are instinctually adept) and bring them back to the trainer, or falconer. Small game such…

SITUATED at a bend on Hillside Avenue on the border of Jamaica Hills is a hidden war memorial that wasn’t always as clandestinely placed as it is today. On a…

OAK Street is just one of Greenpoint’s “alphabetical” streets, that begin with Ash and end with Quay; the L street’s place is taken by Greenpoint Avenue and the P by…

THERE are two monuments to famed 19th Century preacher Henry Ward Beecher (1813-1887) in the Boro Hall — Brooklyn Heights area, the one seen here and one at Beecher’s church,…

SYLVAN” is an adjective that means “woodsy” or “like a forest” and there are three uptown alleys named “Sylvan”: Sylvan Court and Sylvan Place, which are on East 121st Street…

No, this isn’t a recent picture. I got it in 1999 or 2000 at Richmond Valley Road at Madsen Avenue in the south end of Staten Island, years before the…

ALTHOUGH officially, New York City is the southernmost town in New York State, Tottenville, on the southern end of Staten Island, was actually the southernmost village when it was a…

BERGEN Beach is a southeast Brooklyn former island community found east of Marine Park. In the mid-1600s after the Canarsee Indians left, the island was owned by Dutchman Hans Hansen…

BEFORE you mention it in Comments, Forbidden Planet, the sci-fi and comic shop on #832 Broadway, is hardly Forgotten as it attracts perhaps a million shoppers and visitors per year.…

WEST Maspeth, also known as Laurel Hill, was world headquarters of Hagstrom Maps, whose plant is shown here on 46-35 54th Road near 48th Street. Though the company moved out long…

472 Broadway, one of Manhattan’s narrowest buildings in Soho north of Grand Street, has been up, down and then up again…literally. It’s known as the Gila Building because of the…