A sidewalk sign featuring metallic lettering for Hercules Seating can still be found above #25 Park Place downtown, just east of Church Street. As Ephemeral NY points out, the building…

THE Al Smith Houses were built in 1953. Its current boundaries are Madison Street, Catherine Street, St, James Place (formerly New Bowery) and Robert Wagner Senior Place. The project was…

THIS abandoned structure abutting Erie Basin in Red Hook has long been an attraction for the Forgotten NY camera, so I’m reaching into the archives to show it off today.…

THERE is a very short street in Pelham Bay, a few blocks west of Pelham Bay Park, called Libby Place. It still retains touches from a previous era, such as…

A short section of East 9th Street between Broadway and Cooper Square is named for John Wanamaker (1838-1922), a Philadelphian who co-founded a men’s clothing store in 1861 and with it, the…

THOUGH New York City cast off most of its streets named for British monarchs after the evacuation of British troops from New York City in 1783 — Pearl Street, for…

POLY Prep Country Day School has had its distinctive Georgian campus on 7th Avenue and 92nd Street since 1916. Its four-sided clock tower is a Bay Ridge landmark and can…

We have met the Creek and it is us. Here I am standing on the west end of 58th Road in a no-man’s land (except for the many industrial concerns located…

I was surfing through a clutch of photographs taken in the early 20th Century by Robert Bracklow when this item caught my eye, “Plaque on the Modern Kings Bridge commemorating…

THIS building at #443-445 West 22nd Street between 9th and 10th Avenues in Chelsea that was to become the Frederic Fleming House was originally constructed in the 1920s as a…

THE view looking north on 9th Avenue from West 20th Street in Chelsea is striking, as the glass-fronted towers of Hudson Yards, one of which contains NYC’s highest observation deck,…

CASUAL walkers around Greenwich Village will probably come across fractional addresses, such as 548 1/2 (I know there’s a way to access the one-half fraction on my keyboard, but I…