REALLY, I could have sworn I hadn’t been back in the Bushwick and Ridgewood area for a couple of years, but the internet doesn’t lie (well, some of it does),…

HAVE you ever been wandering in northern Tribeca…just south of Canal Street…and encountered 6th Avenue and wondered, what the heck is a numbered NYC avenue doing this far south? After…

YOU have to look carefully to see it but a small sign on a relatively nondescript 4-story building on the east side of Church Street between Franklin and White Streets…

I stalked around in Riverdale and Fieldston, in the northwest Bronx, on two separate hikes last year, both in early November, and I intend to go back the same time…

CONVENT Avenue in Manhattanville is named for the former campus of the Catholic Society of the Sacred Heart, which once stood between Convent Avenue and St. Nicholas Terrace between West…

What follows is an expansion of a piece that recently appeared in SpliceToday. I added more information and photos taken during a recent walk in Astoria’s northern end. After fur…

LYMAN Place is a rather obscure (except for local residents) one-bock street running between East 169th Street and Freeman Street east of Prospect Avenue. It was laid out in the…

BLOODGOOD Haviland Cutter (1817-1906) was a miller, potato farmer, property owner (he once owned the land where my garden apartment complex, Westmoreland Village, stands) and composer of light doggerel. He…

I was recently wandering around in Ridgewood for the first time in several months with the intent of getting new photos of its obscurities, which are numerous: I’ll enumerate them…

In late June I was stalking around Greenpoint again. Over the past 6-8 months or so, my visits have been frequent, as the northern Brooklyn neighborhood is easy for me…

I really should have gotten a better photo of it from the other side, but fascinated by the sight of an honorific sign among the distinctive Downtown Alliance black and…

BEFORE I talk about the lamppost I plan on discussing today, I’ll say a few words about the building that, in effect, provides its home. (Don’t worry, I’ll explain.) By…