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WHEN I walked the full length of Brooklyn’s Kent Avenue from DeKalb Avenue north to Franklin Street and North 14th Street in 2008, I was documenting a road that experienced…
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Something a little unusual today: an FNY page composed in 2010 that somehow was left off the two site reconstructions done in 2011 and 2019. Some of this info may…
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In early December 2020 it was a grey cold weekday (with wet snow later), but nonetheless I had the “Wandering Sickness” and decided to go straight up William Street in…
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SUNSHINE is my undecaffeinated coffee, my 5 Hour Energy, my Red Bull. I get more done on days with full sunshine than I do on overcast days; nonetheless, I have…
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BEEN a few years since I walked Vanderbilt Avenue, so I decided to do a section of it on a walk in August 2021 that took me from Fulton Street…
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In early June 2022 the weather cooperated absolutely fully for me to do a lengthy walk from Penn Station all the way to Columbia University, mainly along 9th and Columbus…
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UNFORTUNATELY, though I feel fine in general, I am unable to walk for any great distance without pain and discomfort (I’d rather not provide any more detail) and so, I’ll…
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Continued from On the Eighth Day On this early summer day in June 2022, I traveled down 8th Street in Park Slope (with a detour to 9th) and then up…
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UNLIKE the late, great Lou Rawls, I’m not a “natural” man. By that I mean that in my walks around NYC, I much prefer the more urban areas, as the…
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On a recent Saturday I traveled around Blissville in western Queens with my friend Mitch Waxman, who I call the King of Newtown Creek. He is a historian and preservationist…
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I’ll lead off today with a photo of the Bowery looking north from Stanton Street in Little Italy, because it still presents a representative look at NYC architectural styles of…
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MAIDEN Lane is one of the oldest routes in Manhattan, following a curved path from Broadway at Cortlandt Street east to South Street. On a ferry trip from Hunters Point…