In late 2025, Studio Museum in Harlem, 144 W 125th Street near Adam Clayton Powell Blvd., opened the doors to its new six-story building , the latest chapter for this…
Manhattan
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At the end of my Wagner-Hudson River Park jaunt in the fall of 2025, to get back to the IRT for the trip uptown to Penn Station, I meandered east…
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LUTHER GULICK PLAYGROUND is a welcome quadrangle of green located between Broome, Delancey, Willett and Columbia Streets on the Lower East Side. It was founded in 1933 as Bernard Downing…
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On a walk in the recently reopened southern section of East River Park in October 2025 I spotted the tug Stephen B. guiding the barge John Blanche in the East…
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THROUGHOUT its 142-year (and counting) history, the Brooklyn Bridge has featured unique road and walkway lighting. I thought I’d show some historic black and white photos illustrating this, courtesy the…
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AMONG the buildings which I forgot to describe in my recent essay on Pacific Park in Brooklyn is the Co-Cathedral of Saint Joseph on Pacific Street (previously seen on this…
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Continued from Part Two WHENEVER I am by the water, I always silently thank providence I live in a city with ready access to it. It wasn’t always the case;…
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Continued from Part One It has been awhile since I did a long form page on Hudson River Park. I have not visited often: In 2011, ForgottenTour #50 walked it from the…
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It has been awhile since I did a long form page on Hudson River Park. I have not visited often: In 2011, ForgottenTour #50 walked it from the Battery all…
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In December 2025 I took a quick walk in the Rockefeller Center pedestrian passage beneath 6th Avenue for six blocks between 47th and 53rd Streets, accessible in its south end…
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At the height of Manhattan’s decades as a maritime shipping hub, there were 99 numbered piers between Battery Park and 59th Street. Each one represented a specific freight, passenger, and…
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PRIOR to 2019 or so, the south side of Delancey Street between Essex and Clinton Streets was undeveloped territory, with lots that were empty or given over to parking. That…