There is a small cluster of streets south of the Fort Hamilton Parkway border with Green-Wood Cemetery between 36th Street and Dahill Road, where the streets have four women’s names…
Brooklyn
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The NYC subway has its share of “station houses” originally built to let people wait for trains, if they didn’t want to do so on the platforms, if they chose.…
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Back in 2012 I was shuffling down 7th Avenue in Park Slope and I spied this glass leaf lettering in a window of an art gallery at #57 7th Avenue…
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In November 1964 the old man was lined up for one of the first buses to cross the Verrazzano-Narrows Bridge from Brooklyn, and presumably I was with him as I…
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Jeez, who knows if this thing is ever going to end? I’ve done Part 1 and Part 2, and now I’m ready for Part 3. I always think of more…
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In what I first imagined would be my only post on the subject, I wrote about a few streets around town named for other streets, Broadway in most cases. Since…
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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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I found this remaining 1960s-era pair of park lamps illuminating a playground in Highland Park, just off Highland Boulevard and Bulwer Place. This particular type first appeared in the 1960s…
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This is the end of the line for the L train in Canarsie. It’s anchored by Armando Piazza, just out of the picture on the left. When I was a…
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After finishing my walk on State Street, I continued into Brooklyn Bridge Park to take a look, but that’s perhaps a page for another day. To get there, I went…
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I was bemused by an article in the NY Times by columnist Lindsay Crouse, about how her life was changed by being unable to run outdoors during the covid pandemic.…
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In November 2020 I was in the mood for a compact voyage of discovery on a crisp fall day and I recognized I had not yet walked the entire length…