I was wavering down Dean Street in December 2011 when I noticed its rock collection. For an unknown reason, at least to me, large boulders can be found on the…

Once upon a time there was a short Place called Glenada in the  heart of Bedford-Stuyvesant. It’s now known by another name. In the crudely Photoshopped title card (do I…

I thought I was done with Walnut Street in Forest Hills. I really thought I was. A few months ago [February 2014] I devoted a page to this one-block street…

There they stand on the Flushing Bay Promenade just north of Citifield… two odd fiberglass rain shelters that appear to me resembling the Vampire Squid, which has webbing between its…

There are two streets named Beekman in Manhattan, another in the Bronx and one more in Flatbush. Both Manhattan streets are in the same family, with Beekman Street, the older…

This decommissioned NYC FDNY fire alarm has stood on the corner of 6th Avenue and 77th Street in Bay Ridge for eons, or at least since I was a wee…

Willow Place is a southern “extension” of the somewhat longer Willow Street, separated by 3 blocks between Pierrepont and Joralemon Streets west of Hicks Street. Its one block length has…

Despite what some daily NYC websites and their commentators have been saying over the years, and what the NY Times architecture critic said when it opened in 1975,  the large…

While recently negotiating Kadath in the Cold Waste, i.e., the Upper East Side on a 25-degree afternoon, I reacquainted myself with William Thomas Stead (1849-1912), a pioneering British man of letters…

There’s this enclave in Queens where Jamaica meets Briarwood, on 145th and 146th Streets and 88th and 89th Avenue east to Sutphin Boulevard, where the avenues are paved with incredible…

A perennial FNY favorite feature for the last 15 years. Answer in comments by number, please.   #1   #2   #3   #4   #5   #6   #7…

The area of Manhattan east of City Hall and between the Manhattan and Brooklyn Bridge underwent drastic changes in the 20th Century…   Most of the streets seen on this…