I took a 5-mile walk from Coney Island through Bath Beach to the 18th Avenue station on the D elevated the other day, and I didn’t get a whole lot…

THE Ulmer Park branch of the Brooklyn Public Library is named for an amusement park and beer garden opened in 1893 at the Bath Beach waterfront along Gravesend Bay by German immigrant…

It surprises me somewhat that New York City doesn’t have more streets named for baseball players, as there have been four MLB teams playing in NYC since the start of…

In February 2022 I was hesitantly picking my way down Fulton and Gold Streets in the Seaport area, bracing against the icy winds and periodically dabbing tears from my eyes.…

YOU’VE never heard of him, but Arthur Grumbine (1901-1998) was a formidable man. He began working as a telegraph operator beginning in 1918 for Philadelphia and Reading Railroad. He remained…

ROGUE is a vintage clothing store on Stanton Street between the Bowery and Chrystie Street. I didn’t stop in, I don’t haunt these kind of places (previously I bought all…

DEMOCRAT Grover Cleveland (who moved to New York State from New Jersey as a young man and served as mayor of Buffalo and NYS governor) holds the distinction of being the only…

THE symbol of Warsaw, Poland, is a mermaid wielding a sword and a shield. As early as the late 1300s, surviving paintings of coats of arms show a a creature…

BEFORE 1928 6th Avenue went only as far south as Minetta and Carmine Streets in the center of Greenwich Village, and was mostly covered by an elevated train north of…

I am taking a look at some of my old stuff from previous years and I found the batch taken on January 1, 2014 when I walked Flushing Avenue past…

THE topography between 64th Street and 65th Place at 53rd Avenue in Maspeth was deemed to hilly to build a road so instead, a pedestrian staircase connects the two routes,…

FEW Brooklynites prefer to admit it but Brooklyn is indeed the western end of Long Island. Long Island University still acknowledges this, but the Long Island Historical Society long ago…