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…

THE modest townhouse at #86 Bedford was once one of NYC’s most popular hangouts for authors and other artistic types. Chumley’s is probably the only major bar or restaurant in New…

AMONG the many architectural marvels found along the only portion of Brooklyn’s Broadway uncovered by an elevated train in Williamsburg, Brooklyn is the magnificent cast iron Forman Building, facing Broadway…

YOU don’t hear much about Founding Father Button Gwinnett (1737-1777), though his was the first signature under the Declaration of Independence, if you’re reading the signatures from the left. In…

WHILE beginning a jaunt in Park Slope recently I was intrigued right off the bat by this building at #230 Flatbush, between Bergen Street and 6th Avenue, with a pair…

I am not yet ready to inaugurate a “Street Art” category in FNY, my first new category in a couple of years. Most of the best art you will find…

I never knew there was a Saint Julian until I researched this one-block street in Tompkinsville, Staten Island, wedged between two main routes, Bay and Van Duzer Streets, seen here…

EVERY time I take the Long Island RR from my home in Little Neck into the City, I enjoy the views I have of Sunnyside Yards, which the tracks travel…

I enjoy a stroll around Fort Totten, located in eastern Queens at the north end of Bell Boulevard where the Cross Island Parkway turns west. From 2017-2021 I often bicycled…

THE word “donnybrook” is derived from a public fair that was held in Donnybrook, Ireland beginning in the 1200s. By the 1800s, the Donnybrook Fair had a reputation of being a drunken, wild…