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Last week I posted an item about Stier Place in Ridgewood, whose highlight is the 1916 Ridgewood Democratic Club. Sergey mentioned he has some photos from the interior… INSIDE the…
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At the corner of 122nd Street and Third Avenue in East Harlem is a set of residential towers whose appearance stands out among its neighbors. The name, flags and murals…
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TOO often the decline in religious observance or demographic changes in neighborhoods have been documented here with churches and synagogues demolished in favor of uninspiring brick and glass residential towers.…
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ONE day after giving a Forgotten NY tour in Sunnyside and Astoria in which I pointed out the former Packard showroom/dealership on Northern Boulevard and 46th Street, some stuff fell…
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A “quickie” this weekend. Hopefully, weekend longforms will return soon, though (thankfully?) I’m thinking the days of my 100-photo epics are done. I don’t travel much: when I have the…
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In the heart of Bushwick is a green superblock named in honor of Maria Hernandez, a neighborhood activist who lived across from the park on Starr Street. It is a…
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I have admired the Bronx Community College campus in University Heights for a long time but avoided photography there after an admonition by a security guard several years ago; fortunately,…
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If anything, in 1931 Winchester Boulevard was a bit more developed than Hillside Avenue out in Hollis Hills. Both were dirt roads that got muddy in a hurry after the…
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TUCKED away on St. Mark’s Place in the East Village is a reminder that it used to be NYC’s foremost German neighborhood. The German-American Shooting Society Clubhouse (Deutsch-Amerikanische Schuetzen Gesselschaft),…
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To the east of Grand Concourse are three parallel avenues honoring Civil War generals Sheridan, Sherman, and Grant. The last one accepted the surrender of the largest Confederate army and…
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In 2015, Kevin visited the East 54th Street Recreation Center in Turtle Bay, documenting its Beaux Arts architecture. Since then, it was renamed for Constance Baker Motley, continuing its role…
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DURING the administration of Gov. Andrew Cuomo, state-operated bridges and tunnels received giant medallions with the state’s emblem in a display of civic pride for some travelers, or perhaps an…