YOU can observe a lot just by looking, as Yogi Berra used to say. For example, here’s a handsome brick building on Washington and st. Mark’s Avenues at the edge…

FROM the Forgotten New York archives of January 2018 comes this look at the first Squibb Bridge spanning Furman Street, from Squibb Park at Columbia Heights north of Cranberry Street…

I have begun to pay more attention to platform lighting on elevated subway stations, which comes in a variety of posts from the earliest ornate ones, to the purely functional…

It was about a year ago that I made two separate trips to trot around Fieldston, a semiprivate neighborhood adjacent to Riverdale in the Bronx, sitting west of the vast…

YOU can walk the planks to get home in Broad Channel, as 12th Road is actually a plank walk to a group of homes on stilts in this very marshy…

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…