ONE of my favorite pastimes is to pore over old maps, especially of New York City, and note what is still there and what has disappeared. In the mid-19th Century,…

FOR the first time since 2022, I have a “deep bench” in sports terms, a hefty and healthy backlog of photos from a number of different walks, which is surprising…

SCANDINAVIANS have largely disappeared from Bay Ridge and Sunset Park, just as other neighborhoods have radically changed over the years. Immigrants from northern Europe first began arriving in Brooklyn in great…

GUSTY winds and occasional showers are not my ideal walking conditions, but on the weekend, I’ll take what is offered, as I am working fulltime at home during the week.…

At the triangle formed by East New York Avenue and Prospect Place where they meet Rockaway Avenue, you will find a tall building with a bricked-up picture window, as well…

UNUSUALLY for a NYC subway station that opened in July 1918, the 68th Street-Hunter College station has a mezzanine section built over the tracks. When it’s not too busy, you…

WHAT a surprise it was when, while pedaling around DUMBO on. a bicycle in the 1970s or 1980s, I took off east down Plymouth Street, navigating the Belgian blocked pavement…

WOODHAVEN Boulevard is but a mere local station on the IND Queens Boulevard Line, which runs express between Rooosevelt and Continental Avenues, but were it built today instead of the…

JUNCTION Boulevard splits the heart of western Queens, dividing neighborhoods as it goes. It forms the undefended barrier between Jackson Heights and East Elmhurst north of Roosevelt Avenue at the…

MANY Corona and Flushing residents, across the mighty Flushing River from each other, believe Willets Point is located just west of the river, where Citifield is. After all, that’s what…

SON Rise Charismatic Interfaith Church can be found on Staten Island’s main north-south cross-island local street, Richmond Avenue, which roars from Port Richmond all the way to Raritan Bay, opposite…

JUNCTION Boulevard’s name is somewhat mysterious. Literally, from Latin, “junction” means “joining” or where things come together. But what originally came together here in western Queens? My guess is either…