Continued from Part 1 For this trip, I transferred from the J train to the 7 train. The two lines do not have a transfer point at any station —…

Glad to be with you this week — for most of the day I began to compose the page it looked like I wouldn’t be able to do it, as…

Continued from Part 1 I walked Wyckoff Avenue, which is on the Brooklyn-Queens line for most of its route, back in 2008 (we now speak of Forgotten New York as…

I keep hearing that the definition of madness is doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result. I think the current Forgotten Feature will disprove the…

Continued from Part One During the waning light of November 2015, we had a spectacular midweek day — it could have been the day after Thanksgiving — and word had…

During the waning light of November 2015, we had a spectacular midweek day — it could have been the day after Thanksgiving — and word had come about a brand…

CONTINUED FROM PART 1 I walked West Street in Greenpointin September 2015, and it may have been a propitious time to do so because the west end of Greenpoint is,…

In the summer of 2013 I walked Greenpoint’s West Street from end to end, and never got around to working on a page about what I had found. Then, a…

For this January lidlifter on the 2016 exploring season I took the IRT #2 train, easily accessible from Penn Station, north to the Nereid Avenue station (mispronounced NAIR-eed by the…

CONTINUED FROM PART 1 When I left off… I had just arrived at the former Kenmore Theater and Beverly Hills Bridal at East 21st Street, a mere block west of…

Brooklyn’s Church Avenue runs from 37th Street between 13th and 14th Avenues on the Borough Park-Kensington border east and northeast to East 98th Street near Brookdale Hospital in Brownsville. The…

Continued from Part 1 Washington and Madison Squares. The King of All Buildings. St. Patrick’s Cathedral. Tiffany & Co. The east end of Central Park. The Plaza Hotel. The Metropolitan…