A recent building teardown at 2nd Avenue and East 72nd Street revealed this partial ad for Pearline Soap. Though Pearline is represented in a great number of color advertising cards…
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It appears as if 121 Charles, at the corner of Greenwich, has been here forever but it is actually a 1967 interloper. It is an 1809 (?) farmhouse moved here…
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THE Patriot, Chambers Street and Church Street, closed in mid-2022, likely a Covid-19 victim. It was a neighborhood bar cleverly disguised as a dive bar (unlike the nearby Raccoon Lodge…
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It’s hard to nail down my favorite building in Clinton Hill but there’s a good chance that it’s the Joseph Steele House, #200 Lafayette Avenue at Vanderbilt, one of the…
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In downtown Brooklyn, Flatbush, Atlantic Avenue, and 4th Avenue all come together at a triangle called Times Plaza after a newspaper, long defunct, that had its offices nearby. In 1908…
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I have always been fascinated with the High Line (or High Line Park), the linear park opened in stages beginning in 2009 on what was built in 1934 as the…
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THIS is not a paid commercial of any kind, but it’s been a couple of years since I have been in one of my favorite joints, Millard Fillmore’s on 65th…
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DEVOE Park occupies an uneven plot surrounded by West Fordham Road, Webb Avenue, Father Zeiser Place and University Avenue. Curving Fr. Zeiser Place, once a part of West 188th Street, follows…
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THE Bronx’ very own Hall of Fame predates the sports halls of fame in Cooperstown, NY, Canton, OH and Springfield, MA. There are halls of fame for rock and roll,…
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WHAT could this handsome carriage house at #159 East 69th Street between Lexington and 3rd Avenue have to do with the former Serval Zipper factory, now a U-Haul distributorship on…
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AL SMITH (1873-1944), is interred in Calvary Cemetery in Blissville, Queens. He was Governor of New York State for four two-year terms (elected in 1918, 1922, 1924 and 1926) and the…
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Continued from Part 1 PLENTY of people say never look back, only look forward. I have never heeded that advice. I’m always replaying events, both good and bad; I remember…