THE Grand Central Laundromat can be found on Parsons Boulevard, a major north-south road in the middle of Queens, and seemingly has nothing to do with Grand Central Terminal (I…

JAMAICA is one of Queens’ three oldest neighborhoods, along with Newtown and Flushing, and it’s no surprise that those three neighborhoods have the lion’s share of colonial-era buildings and locations.…

THERE it sits at Parsons Boulevard and 82nd Drive in Hillcrest, the massive “T building” of Queens Hospital Center (nee Queens General Hospital) that was originally known as Triboro Hospital,…

I hadn’t thought of mentioning them before, but New York City streets feature states’ names. Not in concentrated blocs, like signers of the Declaration of Independence (Brooklyn), vestrymen of Trinity…

YOU find the darnedest things on Facebook. I subscribe to several pages that display historic images, such as Brownstone Detectives. Last week, this photo was displayed showing what was the…

JUST across 3rd Avenue from the ancient high pressure fire hydrant featured on February 2nd, 2022, I spotted this Dresser hydrant, which is actually the one on duty on this…

I was lollygagging around the 3rd Avenue-Gowanus area in Brooklyn on Thanksgiving Day 2021 when I chanced upon one of the last Mohicans of firefighting, a high pressure fire hydrant,…

EVERY so often, I write about the Broadway mile marker that’s hiding in plain sight in the wall at Isham Park in Inwood and I point it out when Forgotten…

I just discovered an incredible photo collection of street scenes in New York City from a few years either side of 1900 from a collection made available from the New-York…

BEFORE my purists say anything, there’s nothing “Forgotten” about Broadway; it’s the street most people think of when they think of New York City, which is sort of the premise…

THIS sort of escaped my notice as I had no idea that a new pedestrian bridge spanning the pedal-to-the-metal West Street (formerly the West Side Highway) opened during 2021; like…

THE other Saturday I was puttering around in the Brooklyn Battery (Hugh Carey) Tunnel area in the arctic cold and then investigated Battery Park City, where I have acquired two…