A tavern at 240 West 52nd Street between 8th Avenue and Broadway bears the name of one of the architects of Greater New York, though few patrons may recognize him.…

These handsome terra cotta station ID plates are a feature of the northern original IRT stations between 79th Street and 145th Street from 1904, and the 157th Street station from…

The former Rice Stadium in Pelham Bay Park was constructed in the early 1920s with the aid of a $1 million grant from Julia Rice, the widow of musician, lawyer,…

Philip Gringer established a small storefront hardware store at #29 1st Avenue, between East 1st and 2nd Streets, in 1918. The store was a success, and now the floor space…

Railroading became part of the New Utrecht Avenue story in 1863, when a steam railroad built by Charles Godfrey Gunther, a former NYC mayor, was built from the entrance to Green-Wood Cemetery…

For quite awhile, I was puzzled by the inscription on the cornerstone of the handsome brick building at Broadway and 44th Street, “L.I.C. T.V. 1875.” Television? 1875? Some research revealed…

I had about an hour phone conversation with Lisa L. Colangelo at Newsday/AMNY recently, and photographer Charles Eckert accompanied the recent FNY tour on Roosevelt Island (September 2019). The resulting…

There are a number of reminders around town of the days when ole Dobbin was the fastest means of transportation. You’ve seen hitching posts, some with carved horse heads; stone…

As I was aimlessly meandering around Corona, crazed from the 80+ Corona heat, I spotted something interesting on the corner of 104th Street and 39th Avenue: specifically, 38-14 104th Street.…

I grew up in Bay Ridge, in which 86th Street, along with 3rd and 5th Avenues, was the main shopping drag. To get to Shore Road, we took the B16…

Forgive me if I’m a little late to the party on this particular item — other sources have discussed it — but an ongoing freelance job at 1740 Broadway (the…

Uni Watch man Paul Lukas was headed down East 14th Street recently. Between 2nd and 3rd Avenue (on what’s really the only shaded block on the busy east-west corridor) he…