I was desultorily trudging through Williamsburg on January 1, 2014 when I was reminded of the power of trolley tracks to preserve ancient streets. Johnson Avenue is a relatively busy…

During the spring I was making my way down Newtown Avenue in Astoria (which isn’t the same as Newtown Road, but actually is, as the two roads actually made up…

Ford car parts painted ad, Northern Boulevard near Queens Plaza, now covered over by a new building Northern Boulevard has long been a road given over to the automobile. (Of…

Even though Manhattan is an island, Roosevelt Island is an island in the borough of Manhattan. I was slouching around the southern end of the island this past week, as…

The “Fighting 69th” regiment of the US Army, a part of the NY Army National Guard, was founded in 1849 and has had a rich history in the US Civil…

I was meandering around Long Island City, gathering details on what would be my Brownstoner Queens post regarding 29th Street, when I thought I would check in on the condition…

After a walk east on Bergen Street from Cobble Hill, the sun was beginning to addle my pate, so I made for the subway on Eastern Parkway down Franklin Avenue,…

Centre Market Place is a one-block street in Manhattan’s Little Italy. It runs between Grand and Broome Street on the eastern end of the 1905  former NYPD Headquarters. When I…

Cherry Street, which is named after a long lost cherry orchard, is one of the streets that run northeast in lower Manhattan, paralleling the East River up to Corlears Hook,…

Almost ten years ago, I walked Jamaica and shot a number of photos on curving Beaver Road, which skirts the northern edge of Prospect Cemetery before making an unusual curve…

By JOE SCHIAFFINO Special to Forgotten New York The Harriet Onderdonk Building at South Street and Peck Slip, later known as Meyer’s Hotel, was built in 1873 at a cost…

Though his characters ran nightclubs in Morocco, piloted rickety boats on African rivers and were mutinied on by Van Johnson, Humphrey Bogart was a Manhattanite, born in December 1899 and…