In 2019, I was wandering on the High Line with the other out of town tourists (on the High Line and Staten Island Ferry, English is a language you’ll hear…

WINFIELD, Queens was situated roughly in the area within the following borders: Woodside Avenue to the north, Mount Zion Cemetery, Calamus Road (Avenue, today) and Maurice Avenue to the south, the New…

In 1640, Dutch provincial governor William Kieft prosecuted a war upon the indigenous Native Americans that resulted in more than 1,000 Indian fatalities in Manhattan and western Long Island. It was…

TODAY I set the controls of my H.G. Wells Time Machine to 1938 and went just down the road from where I live to what is now Nassau Boulevard at…

YOU’RE looking at what is probably the most well-kept and wide-open section of Boston Road in the Bronx. That’s because regular traffic isn’t permitted onto it, as it runs through…

A few winters ago, I walked in Coney Island in early March after a few days of light snow that had put down nearly a foot. I strolled down the…

WALKING up 8th Avenue in Midtown in January 2019, I saw a Gray Line bus tricked out with an ad publicizing The Who’s 2019 tour by the iconic group that…

A short lane called Weehawken Street runs between Christopher and West 10th Streets just east of West Street and stands on what, in the colonial era, was on the grounds…

WHAT was originally called the Meeker Avenue Bridge when it opened in 1939 was renamed the Tadeusz Kościuszko Bridge for the Polish general who aided George Washington during the American Revolution on 9/22/1940;…

I was first introduced to the Old Town Bar, 45 East 18th Street between Broadway and Park Avenue South, on a sweltering summer afternoon in 1981, in the 99th year of its…

In a borough with the city’s lengthiest “step street,” West 230th Street between Irwin and Netherland Avenues in Spuyten Duyvil, here’s what has to be the shortest, on Throgmorton Avenue…

FROM April 2014, when the trees were still bare, comes this photo of the unique Camperdown Elm in Prospect Park, Brooklyn. In the years before moving to Flushing in 1993,…