Murray Hill

NOT being a Murray Hiller, I had never been in the Clover Deli at 2nd Avenue and East 34th Street, but its red and green neon sign had long been…

WHEN most New Yorkers think of Murray Hill, they likely think of the area on the east side of Manhattan, just south of the United Nations between 34th and 42nd…

This bar named “Paradise Alley” on 150th Street and 41st Avenue in Murray Hill always sounded vaguely familiar to me. The name has a long pedigree, but I can’t put…

On a visit to Chicago in the summer of 2001 I remarked to an architect friend that I’ve never seen a good-looking parking garage. It seemed like it was impossible…

It’s time for another entry in FNY’s Cross Streets of NYC series!  I’ve done them piecemeal in the past, but I’ve already posted 20th Street, 21st Street, 22nd Street, 17th Street, 10th Street, 6th Street, 18th Street, 25th…

Bowne House, on Bowne Street north of 38th Avenue in Flushing, Queens, was built in 1661 by English settler John Bowne and, unlike many other colonial houses from the 17th…

When most New Yorkers think of Murray Hill, they likely think of the area on the east side of Manhattan, just south of the United Nations between 34th and 42nd…

By SERGEY KADINSKY Forgotten NY correspondent With Memorial Day in mind, it is easy to think of it as the unofficial start of summer rather of its origins as a…

Block for block Lexington Avenue seems to have more older buildings than any other north-south Manhattan avenue. This pair at the SE corner of East 39th Street seems to be…

After finding once again, to my chagrin, that Press on East 23rd Street is closed on weekends, I resolved to get a bite later on and marched up Park Avenue…

The IRT 33rd Street station, one of the original 28 stations on the Interborough Rapid Transit, or IRT, was built at the former site of the 71st Regiment Armory, which…

I was tipped recently about a surviving sign from the subways’ earliest days in the 33rd Street IRT station (#6 train) which opened in 1904: “There is a very old,…