Look at any street map of Borough Park that includes subways and you will see that the BMT West End line travels in a right of way north of 39th Street, turns south…

The Cryder farm water tower, Cryder Point Apartments, Whitestone GUEST POST BY JASON D. ANTOS author, Whitestone, Arcadia 2006 The Town of Whitestone was first settled by the Dutch in 1645 where…

8th Street exists in Manhattan in two distinct sections: from Cooper Square west to 6th Avenue, and from Avenue B east to Avenue D. (5th Avenue divides it East and West).…

As much as your webmaster has explored Staten Island over the years (I’ve probably spent the most time in Queens, followed by Manhattan, Brooklyn, Staten Island and the Bronx in that…

A note from ForgottenFan Ron Bollerman: I wanted to write and thank you for your page on “Mott Haven”. It helped me to find a building that my great, great grandfather…

Deadlines, deadlines…we all deal with them and your webmaster is no exception. I have plenty of photos, but not a whole lot of research prepared for today’s Slice. Fortunately, there are…

On West 63rd Street near Central Park is what is likely NYC’s largest and most ornate YMCA you’ll ever see. It was designed by mostly unheralded architect Dwight James Baum (1886-1939),…

Now that it doesn’t cool off in October anymore in NYC (on October 8th, 2007, it’s 81 degrees as I write this at 10:14 PM) you have to look for other…

FNY’s second installment of Open House NY 2007 takes your webmaster to a narrow, 3-story house on East 58th Street designed and built by Modernist architect Paul Rudolph, and a swank…

photo: Bridge & Tunnel Club, Port Richmond Avenue (2004) The title of this Slice was originally going to be “Drew Cary” since I originally thought this fantastic mural was on Cary Avenue.…

Despite abortive efforts, mostly in the 1920s and 30s, to connect the BMT subway from Bay Ridge, Brooklyn, the NYC subway has never penetrated Staten Island, which has its own commuter…

285 Madison Avenue, at the NE corner of Madison Avenue and East 40th Street, looks like many other midtown NYC office buildings from the early 20th Century from across the street.…