DON’T let the glassy exterior of the building on the NE corner of Lexington Avenue and East 45th fool you…this building, now home to Midtown Comics on the second floor,…
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HOW does one explain Barnell Street, which seems to have popped up organically on Red Hook street maps including Google over the past couple of decades? The city doesn’t grace…
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In the “stuff that I probably won’t see happen” file, today I decided to reprint one of two articles I wrote for Gothamist in 2019, this one co-bylined with Neil…
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In an earlier era of subway construction, the bulk of what is now called the L train was constructed between 1916 and 1924, an eight-year period, by an privately-owned entity…
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I have admired the Bronx Community College campus in University Heights for a long time but avoided photography there after an admonition by a security guard several years ago; fortunately,…
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FOR some reason, I failed to include this in the recent online zoom chat I gave regarding mosaic subway art. I’m unsure whether to post the rest in Forgotten NY,…
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If anything, in 1931 Winchester Boulevard was a bit more developed than Hillside Avenue out in Hollis Hills. Both were dirt roads that got muddy in a hurry after the…
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I didn’t realize it at the time, since the ground floor had been corrupted and “modernized” while I was working there, but 150 5th Avenue at W. 20th Street is…
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YOGI Berra said it best, as he often did: “You can observe a lot by looking.” I must have used that quote in FNY before, but not lately. I was…
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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…
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In Forgotten NY’s piece about “monumental” subway stations clad in concrete on street level, I wrote about the Ocean Parkway station serving Q trains… Ocean Parkway is the only “monumental”…
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TUCKED away on St. Mark’s Place in the East Village is a reminder that it used to be NYC’s foremost German neighborhood. The German-American Shooting Society Clubhouse (Deutsch-Amerikanische Schuetzen Gesselschaft),…