Manhattan

BROADWAY and East 18th are on the edge of yet another Landmarked District, the large Ladies’ Mile Historic District, which roughly runs between East 17th and 24th Streets, and midblock between…

OVER the years, Kevin documented hotels that had direct connections to underground transit, such as the Knickerbocker in Times Square, Waldorf-Astoria’s private track, Pennsylvania Hotel’s subway entrance, and Clark Street…

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.…

I had never eaten at the Comfort Diner — in the 1980s called the Jay Dee Coffee Shop — while working at Photo-Lettering, though at 214, Jay Dee was right…

BEN Franklin’s presence on Park Row is one of the last vestiges of Park Row’s former claim to fame as “Newspaper Row.” At one time, the New York Times, World, Sun, Journal and Tribune all were…

I don’t have the time or inclination to research it right now, but it can’t be a complete coincidence. Both Manhattan and Brooklyn’s Fulton Streets scythe through the downtown sections…

I should have gotten a better photo of the Hotel Keller, West and Barrow Streets, back in 2021, but the rushing West Street traffic prevented me from positioning myself better.…

At the northwest corner of York Avenue and East 83rd Street is an unassuming 19th-century walkup with a realistic mural depicting a glockenspiel. Titled Glockenspiel, it honors the German community…

THERE are many ancient ads for wholesale clothing concerns in the Garment District, Midtown between 5th and 8th Avenues, 29th to 41st Streets. Most of them are nonsdescript, with just…

On a warmish day in mid-April I decided to take a walk in the Chelsea area near the High Line, which as you know is the 1934 elevated freight railroad…

HERE’S a Forgotten NY touchstone at #109 West 17th (west of 6th Avenue) I have come back to over and over since its location was pointed out to me by…

At the corner of 122nd Street and Third Avenue in East Harlem is a set of residential towers whose appearance stands out among its neighbors. The name, flags and murals…