The dominoes fall. Fourth Avenue has stubbornly resisted the mocha latte and stroller crowd as avenue after avenue in Park Slope, the venerable neighborhood punctuated by meticulously maintained row houses…

Your webmaster had the day to himself after making anappearance on the Brian Lehrer show on WNYC Radio (to promote the new Forgottenbook) on a sparkling Monday in October, and had to…

Your webmaster didn’t attend Open House New York this year. Things came up, as they sometimes will. So, I charged my acolytes (OK, I asked them nicely) to attend in…

A road runs from the East River to the tip of the North Fork of Long Island, running through Long Island City, Woodside, Jackson Heights, Flushing, Auburndale, Bayside, Douglaston, Little Neck,…

Writing Forgotten New York, the book, was an exhausting yet exhilarating experience. There were a lot of hours hunched over a keyboard in my non-air conditioned living room, but as many hours…

“From the moment I met Michael, and saw that house, it was a labor of love.” –Marion Duckworth Smith It’s almost maddeningly impossible to find. The closest subway is approximately 35…

Though I lived in Bay Ridge and knew Dyker Heights, Brooklyn well, I had never thought to walk or even cycle 13th Avenue its entire length. It’s a compact avenue exactly 50 blocks…

This isn’t really “23 skiddoo 2” since we’ve actually already done “53 Skiddoo“, but you get the idea. In Queens, 23rd Street runs from Astoria to Hunters Point, and like most…

Photographer and writer: FNY correspondent Gary Fonville As with many courthouses around the city , in use or abandoned, many former precincts are still standing. The buildings shown below were built…

On this page I continue to explore the fascination I have with the human faces, monstrous images, or combinations of both, that appear on buildings around town that were mostly built in…

While meandering about desultorily in the rain down Maiden Lane in the eastern Financial District downtown in May 2003 I came across an unmarked street issuing north. I ascertained after about a…

It’s hard to say why, but the definitive history of Flushing has yet to be written. Plenty has been written about Flushing’s rich past centuries ago, with its struggles over…