Manhattan

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…

VERY infrequently in New York City, you’ll find a Street With No Name. For many years, a roadway way down at the southwest end of Bay Ridge, along Dyker Beach…

I didn’t know it at the time, November 10th, 2019, but the last Forgotten NY tour in Sugar Hill in a packed schedule that year turned out to be the…

It’s always a pleasure to check on 5th Avenue’s dwindling set of Twinlamps. A handful of the Queen of Avenue’s “twins,” actually the second Twinlamp design, remain along 5th between…

In 2015, Kevin visited the East 54th Street Recreation Center in Turtle Bay, documenting its Beaux Arts architecture. Since then, it was renamed for Constance Baker Motley, continuing its role…

HERE’S a golden oldie that may be as old as 1892 on Division Street just east of the Bowery at Chatham Square. El riders likely got a good look at…

NEW YORK CITY once had four main trunk elevated lines: the 2nd, 3rd, 6th and 9th Avenue Els. Of these, the Third Avenue gets the most of meager press attention…

FACING the corner of Fifth Avenue and E. 64th Street is a former state militia armory that serves as the headquarters of NYC Parks. As a landmarked building, its history…

In the mid-1760s, NYC had sufficiently grown that the Episcopalian parish of Trinity Church began to expand uptown, and built St. Paul’s Chapel in 1766. When a giant fire broke…

THIS week I’m continuing with explorations of north-south streets in Chinatown, Little Italy and the Lower East Side. Having already covered Christie Street and Eldridge Street, I’ll complete the trio…

YOU can find connections in NYC in places that are miles apart. Take #36 West 56th Street, a Queen Anne -style mansion built in 1882 by architect Bruce Price for Dr.…

A painted ad at #315 West 53rd Street between 8th and 9th Avenues has perplexed me since I first saw it when I worked in the area between June and…