WALK through downtown Flushing and you may feel that you’re in a westernized Chinese-speaking society. This isn’t Hong Kong or Taiwan, but when did the first Chinese-Americans settle in this…

WHILE C.B.J Snyder may be recognized as New York City’s premier schools architect, Cypress Hills, at the far east end of Brooklyn, has a pair of school buildings designed by…

KEEP looking up! At building rooflines, that is. But be careful that the coast is clear, many New Yorkers have no tolerance for skyward gawkers, especially if they’re race walking…

HAVING documented the preservation of original hangars from 1939 at LaGuardia Airport and public artworks inside the new Terminal B, there is also an outdoor garden with sculptures evoking the…

THE city’s many transportation options include bikes, boats, buses, subways, railroads, and the Roosevelt Island Tramway. The last item is the only aerial cable car in the city but not…

I was slouching down Knickerbocker Avenue in Bushwick in early May enjoying the mild conditions before dreaded heat and humidity would set in the next month. Various images from this…

FOR centuries, the constructed circle in Salisbury Plain that is Stonehenge has puzzled the public on its meaning and purpose. The culture that built it more than 5,000 years ago…

MANY of New York’s famous artists were born elsewhere and came to this city because it offers the biggest audience and market for creative expression. Keith Haring moved from Pennsylvania…

BACK in June I took a walk in Carroll Gardens and Gowanus; I may do a post on the walk, or release the photos in dribs and drabs, depending on…

FOLLOWING up on John Jay Park, 33 blocks to the north on the East River shoreline is another park named after a Founding Father, carved out of the street grid…

YOU don’t see a lot of lengthy inscriptions in Dutch in NYC. There are street names, or perhaps slogans on borough flags (Brooklyn’s is “Eendracht maakt macht,” which translates to…

MANHATTAN boasts a Manhattan Avenue on the Upper West Side, which runs from West 100th Street one block west of Central Park West north past Morningside Park to West 124th…