With NYC apparently preparing to finish the East River walkway from the Battery all the way to the northern end of the island, and Cy Adler’s “Great Saunter,” a 32-mile walk around the entire…

Comes the word this week (May 4, 2009) that one more butcher is leaving the Meatpacking District… as the NY Post ran it, according to Pat LaFrieda, “A lot of people would like to…

In Bay Ridge, the southbound B63 has to make a slight jog to 4th Avenue here because 5th is one-way northbound for a block between 94th and 95th. The triangle formed…

According to the late, legendary Bronx historian John McNamara, writing in History in Asphalt, West 230th Street in KIngsbridge Heights and Riverdale has had an active history. It once led to an…

If you’ve never been to the Broadway-Flushing section of Queens, it’s worth a visit — it’s home to some of Queens’ finest architecture, having been part of the Rickert-Finley real estate…

As a rule, you will not find any munchkins, witches or flying monkeys in the Bronx. But there is a yellow brick road, and this one looks like it’s still got…

ForgottenFan Dennis Harper recently found one of those rarest of birds in the NYC street paving canon — a red bricked street with a median shown by alternating bricks in white!…

“Bedford” is perhaps a better-known appellation on Brooklyn, where Bedford Avenue is the borough’s longest, running from Greenpoint to Sheepshead Bay, or the Bronx, where Bedford Park borders Fodham University and…

I frequently mention my childhood in FNY, since there’s so much material to draw from in terms of what’s gone or what’s altered beyond recognition. About once a month when I…

Time for one of FNY’s periodic closet-cleaning sessions — I select several photos that are disconnected to each other, yet show an out-of-the-way NYC locale, or something that disappeared long ago.…

Sometimes the best FNY pages happen when I’m looking for something else — one Sunday in March 2009 I am on the way to the Apple store on 9th and West…

It’s a lot cooler to not look back. I heard Van Morrison being interviewed by Don Imus [early March 2009] (about 100 years of showbiz there) and he said he never listens to…