WHILE C.B.J Snyder may be recognized as New York City’s premier schools architect, Cypress Hills, at the far east end of Brooklyn, has a pair of school buildings designed by…
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EVERY time I take the Long Island RR from my home in Little Neck into the City, I enjoy the views I have of Sunnyside Yards, which the tracks travel…
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KEEP looking up! At building rooflines, that is. But be careful that the coast is clear, many New Yorkers have no tolerance for skyward gawkers, especially if they’re race walking…
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THE plan was simple on this July afternoon. For an invigorating but not too taxing outing I would walk Norman Avenue as far east as comfortable, then head back west…
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I enjoy a stroll around Fort Totten, located in eastern Queens at the north end of Bell Boulevard where the Cross Island Parkway turns west. From 2017-2021 I often bicycled…
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To my eternal regret I completely missed what was a lamppost graveyard in Tribeca, now one of NYC’s most expensive neighborhoods, for many years in the 1970s and into the…
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THE word “donnybrook” is derived from a public fair that was held in Donnybrook, Ireland beginning in the 1200s. By the 1800s, the Donnybrook Fair had a reputation of being a drunken, wild…
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IT’S been three years since I walked 79th Street, Upper East and West Side, through Central Park, for a FNY Crosstown entry that hasn’t happened yet. FNY has a backlog…
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HAVING documented the preservation of original hangars from 1939 at LaGuardia Airport and public artworks inside the new Terminal B, there is also an outdoor garden with sculptures evoking the…
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BEING a type guy, I noticed this sign for New York Spa and Sauna as I was scuttling north on 149th Street at Northern Boulevard recently. I noticed it was…
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As a rule, NYC streets are given designations, seemingly arbitrarily, by the engineer who is plotting the map years before buildings on the streets are actually constructed. In Manhattan, with…
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I am in a slight rush this AM and otherwise got nuthin’, so here’s a fine plastic-lettered sign at #765 Grand Street at Humboldt for what was once Grand Cleaners.…