WEST Maspeth, also known as Laurel Hill, was world headquarters of Hagstrom Maps, whose plant is shown here on 46-35 54th Road near 48th Street. Though the company moved out long…
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472 Broadway, one of Manhattan’s narrowest buildings in Soho north of Grand Street, has been up, down and then up again…literally. It’s known as the Gila Building because of the…
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QUEENS Village, centered at Springfield Blvd. and Jamaica Avenue, was known originally as Little Plains, then Brushville, after a local landowner, until about 1920. The present elevated station was constructed in…
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I never tire of Greenpoint, and each time I am there, there is something “new” I haven’t seen before, or one more layer of the onion to peel off. Much…
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THE Beddi-Makky Art Foundry, 227 India Street east of McGuinness Boulevard, is a bronze monument foundry established in Greenpoint in the 1940s when two immigrant Hungarian foundryworkers named Bedi and…
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ONLY in the ‘dirty 30s’ (as weatherman Tex Antoine used to say) could a laundry be named the most beautiful building in Queens…though in the borough of Archie Bunker, maybe that isn’t…
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JUST as Macy’s moved uptown from its original location, so did Lord & Taylor. The store’s third location was in this French Second Empire building, on the southwest corner of…
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In 1908 the IRT Subway was extended to Brooklyn for the first time, and Heins and LaFarge, the architects who constructed most of the subway’s early stations and stationhouses, erected…
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It occurs to me that I haven’t done an entry in the Forgotten NY Street Necrology category for awhile, and in this case, I want to do something a bit…
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ONE of my favorite subway websites is Vanshnookenraggen, the pseudonym of Andrew Lynch, who writes about a NYC subway system that never was, or one that never will be. Entries…
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TRAVIS Â is about as far west as you can get in Staten Island, at the west end of Victory Boulevard. Just as Proctor and Gamble made Mariners Harbor a company…
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PRECIOUS and few are the streets in New York City that begin with Z, and fewer still are subway stations that begin with the 26th letter. Westchester Square can claim…