So there I was in February 2021, wandering down Boerum Street in Williamsburg. How did I wind up there? Sometimes I just pore over online maps when I feel like…

THE Montclair Hotel was designed. by prolific NYC architect Emery Roth and built in 1928, across the street from the lodestone of Lexington Avenue hotels, the former Waldorf Astoria on…

I lived in Bay Ridge from 1957-1993 and have always been an admirer of the woodcut Alpine Realty sign at 5th Avenue and 84th, a block away from my childhood…

ONE of the oldest buildings in the Queensboro Bridge area is the Abigail Adams Museum, alternately the Mount Vernon Hotel. The stone building with the two-level white porch on East…

WHEN you are a photographer in New York City taking photos of infrastructure, it sometimes isn’t easy. I was setting up a shot on 1st Avenue over the weekend, concentrating…

I don’t think I’ve mentioned the magnificent stone bridge that takes the NY Connecting Railroad over Queens Boulevard in Woodside. The NYCR, constructed in 1917 when the Hell Gate Bridge…

THE ghost of the Diplomat Bowl still holds forth on Snyder Avenue east of Flatbush Avenue in Flatbush, across from the former Flatbush Town Hall (before it was annexed by…

HERE’S a building at 39-30 Review Avenue that looks abandoned but is apparently very much alive, originally home to the American Wax Company. “Wax” can mean a lot of things,…

THE Thomson Avenue Bridge was created in the late 19-oughts, along with the remainder of the Sunnyside Yards railroad complex. The entire complex is a vast open space, covered only…

REVIEW Avenue is an odd route in western Queens, running from Borden Avenue southeast to where Laurel Hill Boulevard meets 56th Road. It runs along the western end of Calvary…

WHEN most New Yorkers think of Murray Hill, they likely think of the area on the east side of Manhattan, just south of the United Nations between 34th and 42nd…

I am stumped more often than I’d like to be. There was a real estate development on the east side of Auburndale Lane opposite Flushing Cemetery south of 46th Avenue…