The view of the concrete Richmond Hill trestle from Hillside Avenue lets us see one of the Long Island Rail Road’s more intriguing relics: the Keystone. The LIRR was run…

Here is a screen capture from a video made in the Seventh Avenue Line IRT Times Square subway station by a visiting Danish filmmaker. The film is labeled 1986, and…

photo: Bob Mulero I’ve known about them for years, but never did anything about them until now. The IND Queens Boulevard Line was opened in stages between 1933 and 1988…

If I wanted to bet, I would wager that one in ten passersby, if that many, at this sign at 13th Avenue and 37th Street in Borough Park would know…

When the Third Avenue El was extended into the Bronx in the 1890s, Manhattan’s 3rd Avenue was as well, taking over the routes of several separate streets over which the…

Elmhurst Hospital, Broadway and Baxter Avenue, is marked by a stencil sign on the Manhattan-bound side of the Elmhurst Avenue local station on the Queens Boulevard IND, serving R and…

Feeling somewhat under the weather with some laryngitis today (12/19/15) so it’s time for a quick FNY page of images I got on one of this year’s MTA Holiday Train…

We’re fortunate to have a subway system old enough to have several different design schemes imprinted on it. The Earth is about five billion years old, old enough so that…

The Brooklyn City Railroad was first incorporated as a horsecar line in 1853. Later, trolley lines drawn on street rails by overhead electric wires replaced the dobbins and the BCRR…

When the Cathedral of St. John the Divine began construction in 1892 at Amsterdam avenue and West 110th Street, the city believed that the occasion required a grand, wide boulevard…

Seen at regular intervals along the walls at the Whitehall Street BMT subway station serving R trains, the first or last in Manhattan depending on your direction, are these terra…

Just north of Trinity Churchyard at Broadway and Wall Street  is the Trinity Building, designed along with the U.S. Realty Building next door, by Francis Kimball and constructed from 1904-1907…