UNLIKE the late, great Lou Rawls, I’m not a “natural” man. By that I mean that in my walks around NYC, I much prefer the more urban areas, as the…
Park Slope
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In the days before central plumbing, you had to attend to the necessities somehow. New York City used to feature dozens of public baths. A remaining one, on 268 East…
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A State Education Department of New York sign, created in 1952, hangs in front of an American Legion hall at 3rd Avenue and 9th Street, stating that remains of theĀ 1st…
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SORRY I “buried the lede” in the title, but I didn’t see any other way around it. In the spring I was wandering in Park Slope, the same day that…
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I don’t feel shame in admitting that I have pizza at least twice a week, usually one slice for lunch or maybe two for dinner. I’m not adventurous, though; I…
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To me, it’s amusing that while many office buildings do not have 13th floors, the devisors of numbered street grids in Manhattan and Brooklyn have never had problems with the…
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T.S. Eliot’s J. Alfred Prufrock may have measured his life with coffee spoons, but I tend to measure it with old song lyrics. I passed this apartment building at #203…
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Back in 2012 I was shuffling down 7th Avenue in Park Slope and I spied this glass leaf lettering in a window of an art gallery at #57 7th Avenue…
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Back in October I was roving Brooklyn, Queens and Manhattan quite a bit. In the year of Covid, I resumed roaming about, including riding the subways, at first fitfully in…
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In a neighborhood chockablock with rich architectural forms, Public School 39, at 6th Avenue and 8th Street in Park Slope, is a standout even among such nearby treasures as the…
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I found several stanzas of Desiderata outside an ice cream shop while staggering around in Park Slope back in 2011. I describe myself as practical and not especially spiritual, but…
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As a boy, I took the B63 bus on 5th Avenue with my mother, father, or both, to some downtown Brooklyn destination. Or, sometimes we just took rides, as I…