In mid-August I was looking for a walk that wasn’t too taxing yet would get my steps in. I have been undergoing PT since early August and will be wrapping…

WHAT, you were expecting 42nd Street in Manhattan? That’s probably the least-Forgotten street in New York City, though it would be interesting to find “forgotten” aspects of it. I’d have…

MUCH of the spring and into the summer I wasn’t feeling particularly well with occasional gastro issues and a bad back, but I did get out now and then until…

THE plan was simple on this July afternoon. For an invigorating but not too taxing outing I would walk Norman Avenue as far east as comfortable, then head back west…

SOMETIMES, walks determine their own endings. I felt like a walk in Prospect Park, where I hadn’t been for awhile (in my young years, things were more dangerous and so,…

BACK in March I walked sections of 4th and 5th Avenues in Sunset Park, an area I had neglected, at least on foot. I have traveled beneath 4th Avenue on…

On a warmish day in mid-April I decided to take a walk in the Chelsea area near the High Line, which as you know is the 1934 elevated freight railroad…

BEEN quite awhile since I devoted a page to 4th Avenue in Brooklyn; many years ago, I walked it in Park Slope. That stretch of 4th has changed considerably in…

CATCHING up on some places I haven’t been yet, I decided to go over some well-worn territory for me at least, from Astoria to Woodside. From 2012 to 2018 I…

WHILE looking around for a relatively short walk recently I settled on MacDougal Street, which many think of as the commercial north-south spine of Greenwich Village. Well, I thought it…

In early February 2025, a month that was generally cold with at least some snow, unlike recent winters, I took advantage of a relatively mild Saturday and walked Jamaica Avenue…

THIS week I’m continuing with explorations of north-south streets in Chinatown, Little Italy and the Lower East Side. Having already covered Christie Street and Eldridge Street, I’ll complete the trio…