Continued from Part 1 This week’s FNY page takes its name from the classic Hank Williams country song and the 1997 David Lynch film noir. The idea came in a flash of inspiration…

This week’s FNY page takes its name from the classic Hank Williams country song and the 1997 David Lynch film noir. The idea came in a flash of inspiration —…

The Vernon-Jackson #7 train stop in Hunters Point is one of my favorites. It was opened in June 1915 as one of the two original stations on what is today…

Kings Highway in Bensonhurst? For over a century, Kings Highway has run through a lot of different neighborhoods, but Bensonhurst isn’t one of them. Well, it isn’t anymore. Today, Kings…

I remember it pretty clearly. It was in October, 1975 and it was the first time I had ever ridden my bicycle across Jamaica Bay on the Marine Parkway, since…

Horace Harding Boulevard was initially  developed as a through route from Elmhurst to Nassau County as Nassau Boulevard in the 1930s, and was later named for a financier and friend of NYC…

I’ve known about this chiseled pair of signs, saying Boulevard and Meserole Street, at the corner of Bushwick Avenue and Meserole Street (near the Montrose avenue L train station); there is…

Edward M. Morgan Place is one of the busiest one-block streets in Manhattan, running northwest from Broadway and West 157th Street one block to West 158th Street, where its route…

Bedell Lane is a quiet side street in Canarsie, running from west to east from East 87th to East 92nd Streets, just south of Foster Avenue. I’ve been aware of…

6th Avenue runs up the center of Manhattan Island; in his compilation Ferrari in the Bedroom, humorist Jean Shepherd called it “the armpit of Manhattan.” It was originally laid out in…

The term “freeway” is commonly used in Southern California in the Los Angeles metropolitan area to designate an expressway without tolls. In New York City, there’s one and only one…

When I first started poring over NYC street atlases in the 1970s, I was perplexed while fingering my dogeared Bronx Hagstrom because one of the streets in Soundview, just east…