THE blocks around Grand Central Terminal are the most ideal workplaces in the city for their connections to transit. In the last century before airplanes became the dominant form of…

In the complicated Greenwich Village street layout, Jones Street, along with Cornelia, is a one-block street between West 4th and Bleecker west of 6th Avenue. It was named for Dr.…

I was unsteadily rambling north on West 8th Street in Gravesend in November 2025 when, south of Kings Highway, I noticed some attached houses that were a “cut above” the…

HERE’S the DeVinne Press Building, 393-399 Lafayette on the NE corner of East 4th. When researching the building, from my Photo-Lettering type days I remembered the Bodoni-esque DeVinne type font. Theodore…

MOUNT Eden and Mount Hope are two communities in western Bronx along the Grand Concourse, which is built on a natural ridge. Mount Eden is an old name driving from…

JUST an everyday side street in Woodhaven, a short section of 102nd Avenue runs four blocks from 81st to 89th Street (some numbers are skipped) a block south of 101st…

In late 2025, Studio Museum in Harlem, 144 W 125th Street near Adam Clayton Powell Blvd., opened the doors to its new six-story building , the latest chapter for this…

AMONG the buildings which I forgot to describe in my recent essay on Pacific Park in Brooklyn is the Co-Cathedral of Saint Joseph on Pacific Street (previously seen on this…

PICTURED here is Women’s Plaza, on the north side of Queens Boulevard at Union Turnpike (here the service road of the Jackie Robinson Parkway). I got this image from Google…

From the Facebook page Old NYC Photo Dump comes this image of the Seven Seas Restaurant, Surf Avenue at West 16th Street, in 1985. I don’t know much about the…

In December 2025 I took a quick walk in the Rockefeller Center pedestrian passage beneath 6th Avenue for six blocks between 47th and 53rd Streets, accessible in its south end…

In the early years of this website, Kevin Walsh returned to Atlantic Yards (Now known as Pacific Park) on many occasions, documenting the transformation of a railyard and former meatpacking…