In Bayside Hills, a neighborhood in Queens south of Northern Boulevard bordering Bayside to kits north, 48th Avenue splits in two at 216th Street, with the right side curving to…
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JUST for fun, I dragged my H.G. Wells Time Machine out of the closet for another spin. It’s always tricky to travel into the past because the least little thing…
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Continued from On the Eighth Day On this early summer day in June 2022, I traveled down 8th Street in Park Slope (with a detour to 9th) and then up…
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MAJOR General Franz Sigel (1824-1902) overlooks Riverside Drive at West 106th Street. Sigel, born in Baden, Germany, served in the German military until 1852, when he emigrated to the US,…
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On a recent jaunt in Borough Park, I strolled over to Alben Square, where New Utrecht Avenue meets 11th Avenue and 46th Street, to check out the old Loew’s 46th…
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THIS one stumped me for quite a long time. This painted ad on the north side of Fulton, across from Macy’s, stumped me for years, but Of New York has scooped me…
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COOGAN’S Bluff is the cliff leading down to the Harlem River from Edgecombe Avenue. It used to overlook the Polo Grounds, the ballpark home of the New York Giants, and…
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I have written before about Beverly Road in Brooklyn, which runs from Kensington all the way east through Flatbush to the border of Brownsville, since the city really can’t decide…
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UNLIKE the late, great Lou Rawls, I’m not a “natural” man. By that I mean that in my walks around NYC, I much prefer the more urban areas, as the…
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HOW I would have liked to have accompanied photographer Percy Loomis Sperr on his expeditions around NYC in the 1920s and 1930s, when he took upwards of 40,000 street photos…
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At the Powhatan Democratic Club, 41-05 Newtown Road, the sign looks much the same as it did in 1940. The political club is now officially known as the Powhatan and Pocahontas Democratic…
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At 22nd and 6th Avenue in Chelsea, northwest corner, is the former Ehrich Brothers Emporium, constructed in 1889, and currently home to a Burlington Coat Factory on the ground floor.…