96th Street is one of the Original 28 IRT subway stations that opened on October 27, 1904 between the old City Hall station and 145th Street, #1, 2, 3 trains…
Broadway
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Different cities have patterns of street naming. Boston is fairly haphazard — there are five Washington Streets, repeats of other names, and very few, if any, numbered streets. Philadelphia’s major…
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Since May I have spent not a little time on Broadway between Times Square and Columbus Circle for a freelance job, noticing the infrastructure. This stretch of Broadway features the…
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The word “peregrine” originally meant “foreign or outlandish” but today, the term applies only to the peregrine falcon, the fastest bird in the world. According to the National Geographic, peregrine…
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Before I was so rudely interrupted I was working on this page last weekend, and had it about 80% complete. I hadn’t realized, though, that my WordPress autosave wasn’t activated.…
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I recently took a walk from Penn Station, exploring the newest and final section of the High Line that will open to the public, into Chelsea, south along 4th Avenue…
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Continued from Part 1 On a hot day in May I set out to visit most of Astoria’s historical spots and found most of them. I began at the LIRR…
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It looks like the time has come to say sayonara to a relatively unchronicled and unappreciated genre of lampposts I call the New Gumballs because of their spherical shape and resemblance…
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1840s-era building, Broadway north of Canal
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To paraphrase Yogi, you can observe a lot by looking. I was walking up Broadway after getting a new tour guide license when these painted window signs for Izquierdo &…
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Broadway runs north from Bowling Green and, under a variety of names, runs north in NY State almost all the way to the Canadian border. Other than a few other…
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Do architects design house numbers as parts of buildings anymore? Today house numbers are usually indicated by metal numbers attached separately above the door, or if we’re really talking cheap,…