BRONX’S Park Avenue is a northern extension of Manhattan’s (much like Broadway and Third Avenue) and its house numbers follow the sequence that started all the way south at East…

UNUSUALLY for a NYC subway station that opened in July 1918, the 68th Street-Hunter College station has a mezzanine section built over the tracks. When it’s not too busy, you…

GRAND Central Madison, the new Long Island Rail Road terminal beneath the main terminal serving Metro-North rains, opened in early 2023 after about 20 years of construction. It’s truly vast,…

HOLLAND Tunnel engineer Ole Singstad (who replaced original tunnel engineer Clifford Milburn Holland) is little remembered today but should be mentioned in the same breath as Robert Moses and Othmar…

GRAND Central Terminal tourgoers cluster around a derelict baggage car in early 2016. For years a myth persisted that this baggage car was used by Franklin Delano Roosevelt, while he…

Title card photo by Peter Dougherty, whose Tracks of the NYC Subway’s new edition is available. THIS weekend is particularly busy with holiday stuff and freelance work, so I’ll do…

UNTIL just recently, M3 electric-powered rail cars employed on the Long Island Rail Road, were still in use as delivery of new M9 cars was delayed. (As MTA subway cars…

WANT to check out some NYC history but don’t want to ferret it out in a museum? Ride the subway instead. This plaque, designed by Jay Van Everen and located…

As I’ve learned from decades of experience, there’s the right way to do things, and there’s the wrong way (of which I freely admit my occasional guilt) which is usually…

In downtown Brooklyn, Flatbush, Atlantic Avenue, and 4th Avenue all come together at a triangle called Times Plaza after a newspaper, long defunct, that had its offices nearby. In 1908…

I have always been fascinated with the High Line (or High Line Park), the linear park opened in stages beginning in 2009 on what was built in 1934 as the…

THE Port Authority Trans-Hudson Railroad, or the PATH train, is NYC’s “other” subway, running under 6th Avenue, Christopher Street, Greenwich Street and Morton Street and from Church Street at the World…