Hunters Point

Dour, drizzly weather and intermittent rain in part held attendance down for FNY’s first tour in Hunters Point in four years, but those who came were treated to a detailed…

I usually make it a habit to stay out of police precincts — I’ve never been hauled in for a crime, and the only other occasion I’d have to visit…

For years I patronized the Waterfront Crabhouse in the rapidly changing Hunters Point, but now that it has closed after the death of owner Tony Mazzarella, I should say something…

Have I ever mentioned that I got a B in a college math class? It was a proud B, since it was one of a handful of A’s and B’s…

Still called the Paragon Building, bu later a warehouse and now residences at Hunters Point Avenue and 21st Street just west of Skillman Avenue’s western end,  this compact brick building…

The stolid brick Neptune Meter Works Building on Jackson Avenue and Crane Street stood from 1910 until today, October 9, 2014; it had been razed to make way for a…

I have an affinity for subways, trains and railroads… not at the “foamer” level,  but I have enough knowledge to recognize model numbers on most NYC, Long Island Rail Road…

Gantry State Park in Hunters Point is undergoing yet another expansion and reconfiguration, which has already added a new ferry terminal. Even before those changes, though, the park has laid…

The many-windowed Blanchard Building, its U changed to a V by stonecarvers under orders to make the “U” the Roman “V” to impart majesty and permanency, stands sentinel on Borden…

With pedestrian fatalities and injuries more common that usual in NYC in early 2014, I thought I’d root around for some photos I took of a program cooked up by…

At one time, Eagle Electric was a manufacturing giant in the Hunters Point area, with several plants scattered in the neighborhood’s complicated street grid. In the early 1980s I was…

After a several-decade obsession with bland functionality, the Metropolitan Transit Authority began getting more creative with subway platform lighting in the 1990s. Included in that rubric is the refurbishing, or…