A short road zig zags in Jamaica Hills between Parson Boulevard and 162nd Street in Jamaica Hills, a few blocks north of the main drag, Hillside Avenue. It’s a pleasant…
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The hulking, fortress-like brick Terminal Warehouse at 11th Avenue and West 28th Street was constructed in 1890 with a design known as American Round Arch by architect George Mallory on land…
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I was crossing the Bayonne Bridge a few years ago with a group led by Mitch Waxman of the Newtown Pentacle, who takes a special interest in area waterways and…
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The old Penn Station is not completely gone. If you poke around long enough in the basement of Madison Square Garden, which is what the ‘new’ Penn Station became, you…
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I was shuffling about the Upper East Side a few years ago when I spotted this extraordinarily painted building front in red, white and blue on 3rd Avenue between East…
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Beadel Street runs between Kingsland and Porter Avenues in the shadow of the construction of the new Kosciuszko Bridge and dangerously near the noxious and noisome Newtown Creek. No explanation is…
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There’s plenty going on in this shot of 5th Avenue looking north from 34th Street in the fabulous 50s, that I snagged from the Facebook group ONLY CLASSIC NYCTA SUBWAYS BUSES/LIRR/METRO…
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In 1867 Trinity Church sold the leafy enclave of St. John’s Park, which was on the east side of Hudson between today’s Ericsson Place and Laight Street, presently the approach…
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I was participating in a NYC trivia quiz sponsored by NYC historians The Bowery Boys (Greg Young and Tom Meyers, whose website, podcasts and book, Adventures In Old New York, are…
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photo: Facebook group Electric Traction Enthusiasts There’a a lot going on in this photo of Myrtle and Gates Avenues in Bushwick in 1956. Parts of the road surface are still paved…
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39th Street in Brooklyn is a main route between the waterfront through Sunset Park and Borough Park. It is the first through street south of the interruption caused by Green-Wood Cemetery.…
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Idling in Ridgewood the other day, I spotted this truly ancient painted ad on Seneca Avenue between Stanhope and Himrod. Other bits of the ad are visible but have mostly…