In deep and dark November I took a walk straight up Mulberry Street for its entire length, which I had never previously done. It skirts the west edge of Chinatown and cleaves…

In August I went on a “ramble” from the Canal Street A/C/E subway up through SoHo, Greenwich Village, and the East Side, getting as far as East 59th where I…

On the northern edge of Central Park,  the hills are steep, and rough hewn staircases ascend as high as a two or three story building. This part of the park…

As Mr. Spock would say, I was “in pursuit of  a feral waterfowl.” In August I went tearing about the extreme northeast Bronx because I saw a singular item on…

Going to be another relatively short feature page this week, as I write them on the weekends, and this one I’ll be occupied with tour scouting on Saturday and tour…

Continued from Part 2 I had an interregnum of work this past spring (2018), the better part of two months for a financial printer in Midtown. The hours were overnights…

Continued from Part 1 I had an interregnum of work this past spring (2018), the better part of two months for a financial printer in Midtown. The hours were overnights…

I had an interregnum of work this past spring (2018), the better part of two months for a financial printer in Midtown. The hours were overnights from 12 to 8,…

The humidity in the Northeast in the summer of 2018 has been unrelenting, it’s like  South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, etc. Nevertheless I’ve been at it even more than ever, walking,…

I make no apologies for being a nostalgist. I spent my first 35 years in Bay Ridge and return often, first to visit my father, who passed away in 2003,…

Continued from Part 2 In June 2018, I walked the north-south streets of the Lower East Side from Orchard east to Pitt between Houston and East Broadway/Grand/Delancey and noticing what…

In March 2018, I marched from the Tremont Ave. IND subway station at the Grand Concourse east on its titular avenue all the way to the Bruckner Expressway, where I…