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…
Brooklyn
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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.…
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FOLLOWING a relative period of inactivity due to various ailments, I have been gradually getting back into the swing and visiting realms where I haven’t appeared in recent years. One…
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I was slouching down Knickerbocker Avenue in Bushwick in early May enjoying the mild conditions before dreaded heat and humidity would set in the next month. Various images from this…
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SOMETIMES, walks determine their own endings. I felt like a walk in Prospect Park, where I hadn’t been for awhile (in my young years, things were more dangerous and so,…
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My enjoyment of chocolate is undimmed, even though I try to keep my blood sugar in check. True chocolate purists, though, will accept only dark chocolate that is unsoiled by…
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BACK in June I took a walk in Carroll Gardens and Gowanus; I may do a post on the walk, or release the photos in dribs and drabs, depending on…
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TAKE a walk south on East 15th Street from Gravesend Neck Road and opposite #2305 East 15th, freestanding house, you’ll see a group of 3-story multifamily buildings with balconies and…
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WHILE most people in Williamsburg’s Italian section know about the Our Lady of Mount Carmel and San Paolino di Nola Feast in which thousands of revelers pack the streets every mid-July…
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ENGINE 240/Battalion 48 on Prospect Ave. south of Greenwood is one of Brooklyn’s and NYC’s more exotic firehouses, with a corner turret with intricately carved stonework. My friend Emily Nonko…
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I have been thinking about the Interborough Express, a proposed mass transit line connecting Bay Ridge and Jackson Heights running mainly along the rights of way of the NY &…