2020 marked the first year I hadn’t attended any Mets games at Citifield or Shea Stadium in many years, to my knowledge, but there were just 30 games all year,…

Scouting a Forgotten Tour in Rockaway Park in June 2012, I found a pair of R-40 cars in the subway yard, #4393 and what was likely 4392. Introduced on March…

I’ve always wanted a job in the MTA Sign Shop in Crown Heights, Brooklyn. That’s where every sign that you see in the subways is produced. I’m unclear whether street…

I was out for a “ramble” after a few days of overcast and rain, even though conditions were windy and cold, and was shuffling along the Little Neck LIRR platform.…

This is the end of the line for the L train in Canarsie. It’s anchored by Armando Piazza, just out of the picture on the left. When I was a…

I don’t have any particularly new historic information to impart about the Queens Boulevard Flushing Line Viaduct in Sunnyside, except that I thought this photo I got in late 2020…

One of the welcomer features of the new Moynihan Train Hall, which opened January 1, 2021 in the former James Farley US Post Office distribution center, is the use of…

My mission was simple in October 2018—I was going to walk the entire length of the Rockaway peninsula, from Riis Park all the way east to Far Rockaway. I nearly…

The Long Island Railroad’s Rockaway Beach Branch diverged from the LIRR’s Main Line in Rego Park at about 66th Ave. at what was called Whitepot Junction. It ran south through the…

On January 1, 2021 I resolved to do exactly what I had done 4 years earlier in 2017, when I visited the four new Second Avenue Subway stations, walking between…

Lately I’ve started getting enthusiastic about subway and elevated platform lighting. (Yeah, I know no one else is, really.) Why not? They’re lampposts, too. In NYC there’s a plethora of…

I confess, this week it’ll be a bit shorter Sunday page than usual, but I’ve been trying to shorten them lately, anyway. A couple of weeks ago Joanna and I…