Financial District

HERE’S a photo of the webmaster and my good friend, Doctor of Theology and author Dawn Eden Goldstein, in a 2007 outing in front of James Leeson’s gravestone in Trinity…

BOWLING GREEN is still mapped as a street, a short connector between Broadway and Whitehall Street just east of Battery Park. Its adjoining triangle park, featuring the Delacorte Fountain, is…

MARKETFIELD Street is one of the city’s few L-shaped routes, proceeding from Broad Street opposite #75 and then doglegging west and north to Beaver and New Streets. Nothing to write home…

SORRY to say I have never been inside the Pearl Diner #212 Pearl at Fletcher Street, as I usually don’t find myself in the crowded Financial District during the week.…

THE dead of winter is a natural time to commune with the dead and in late January I was stumbling around in St. Paul’s Churchyard, which I’ve neglected over the…

I recently revisited Beaver Street, downtown in the financial district. One of Manhattan’s oldest streets was named very early on, in the 1660s, and commemorates the paddle-tailed, dam-building, aquatic rodent…

HERE’S the front doorway of #5-#7 Ten Eyck Street at Union Avenue. Ten Eyck Street runs in three pieces in East Williamsburg, through the Williamsburg Houses, where it’s reduced to…

I still have grand dreams and ambitions. Publish a book and own my own place? Done years ago. Marriage? Make millions? Let’s not get crazy. However, it popped into my…

TWO decades ago while meandering about  in the rain down Maiden Lane in the eastern Financial District downtown in May 2003 I came across an unmarked street issuing north. I ascertained…

NEW York City’s skyline is the envy of the world, a sight tourists travel from across the globe to see. But in some places, its sidewalks are nearly as interesting,…

THE original South Ferry station at the tip of Manhattan is a very complex operation that comprises no less than four separate platforms that serve, or served, the IRT 7th…

By SERGEY KADINSKYForgotten NY correspondent THERE are few parks in the city that are older than Central Park and rise near its level of fame. Battery Park is certainly known…