Everybody went to Schrafft’s. Kirk Douglas as a young struggling actor worked as a waiter in a Schrafft’s. Movie stars, politicians, even Presidents (Truman) stopped into Schrafft’s. Truman Capote got thrown…
Downtown Brooklyn
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Here’s a rare case of a so-called “faded ad” that’s not faded at all — in fact, it looks as fresh as it did when it was painted over a…
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It occurs to me that the Pacific Street station on the BMT has joined the likes of 33rd/Rawson, or Woodhaven Boulevard/Slattery Plaza, or 39th Avenue/Beebe Avenue in sporting outmoded signs…
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When the 4th Avenue BMT (Brooklyn-Manhattan Transit) subway line, constructed in 1915 and extended over the Manhattan Bridge a couple of years later was competed, the Manhattan-Bridge-bound route included a…
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photo: Wayne Whitehorne, courtesy NYC Subways When it was opened on February 11th, 1933 as part of the new Independent Subway System, the High Street station on today’s A and…
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CONTINUED FROM PART 1 In this preternaturally mild summer [2014] only the exorbitantly high transit fares and my volunteer work at Greater Astoria Historical Society are keeping me from roving…
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In this preternaturally mild summer [2014] only the exorbitantly high transit fares and my volunteer work at Greater Astoria Historical Society are keeping me from roving all over town most…
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As of early 2014 I’m looking around for work and have been “freelancing” for three years. Most of my career has consisted of working with print, editing, writing, proofreading, and…
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There are plenty of statues of the sailor of the ocean blue, Christopher Columbus, around — one at Columbus Circle, another one at Literary Walk in Central Park, another one…
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I have been a member of the NYC Transit Museum for at least the past decade. I don’t visit all that often, admittedly, but I annually contribute $50 (up from…
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177 Livingston Street is a handsome Romanesque office building at Gallatin Place. It was originally part of the Abraham & Straus department store complex, which once occupied 7 separate buildings…
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From my pal in Forgottening Lindley Farley, who wrote the excellent Oddball New York a few years ago, comes the sad word that the remnants of the large painted ad…