Though I have been writing Forgotten New York for a long time — I started in 1998 — there are still adventures I haven’t yet considered, such as a simple…

After exploring that odd corner of Queens where every street is named 60, my day wasn’t over. I lit out into eastern Maspeth and got as far as Elmhurst before…

I decided to check out the new East 180th Street subway stop on the White Plains/Dyre Avenue Line (#2/#5 lines in the Bronx — after a couple of years’ construction,…

Dyckman is a big name in upper Manhattan — bookkeeper Jan Dyckman arrived on these shores from Westphalia (then under Prussian control) in the late 17th Century, married into the…

Every once in awhile I walk one of Manhattan’s cross streets because I find a number of things along  them interesting. I don’t usually walk the entire street river to…

CONTINUED FROM PART 1 WAYFARING: Red Hook Louis Valentino Park and Pier are named for a hero fireman who spent his early years in Red Hook and Carroll Gardens. Valentino…

I have been in Red Hook before … Transoms of Red Hook, July 2004 Coffey and a Donut, October 2008 Silent Hook, June 2012 and plenty more, plus a ForgottenTour…

It was the hottest day of the year so far, and I spent it in Far Rockaway. The plan was simple. The day after the Hurricane Sandy-ravaged A train trestle…

Long Island University has a campaign (in 2013) called “Find Out How Good You Really Are.” When I went to college, I found out I wasn’t all that good. I…

Actually this walk features rather less wilderness than when I first did it in 1999. After reading Bruce Kershner’s Secret Places of Staten Island, a primer for the remaining wild…

In late March I learned that the Nathan’s hotdog stand on the Coney Island boardwalk had opened for the season, so I decided to head to Brooklyn’s Riviera by the…

Continued from PART 1 Continuing my trip from Straus Square on the Lower East Side to Midtown’s Penn Station… WAYFARING MAP: Seward Park to Penn Station   222 Bowery just…