Williamsburg

In the literary world, a palimpsest refers to “a manuscript or piece of writing material on which the original writing has been effaced to make room for later writing but of which traces remain.”…

THIS wall painting marking a cosmetics factory for Nutrine cosmetics was in decent shape when I first spotted it nearly a quarter century ago and it hasn’t faded much since.…

I haven’t yet devoted a page to this genre of streetlamps that appeared in NYC in large numbers in the 1970s. I don’t know the manufacturer (help me out in…

Continued from Across the Creek: July 4th in Greenpoint I have not taken many lengthy walks in the summer of 2022 and the last really ambitious one I did was…

I have not taken many lengthy walks in the summer of 2022 and the last really ambitious one I did was from Hunters Point through Greenpoint, Williamsburg, Ridgewood and Glendale…

CRAZY from the heat, I ambled through Williamsburg on the 4th of July, 2022, and I was even more crazed when I got to Havemeyer and North 5th Streets. Yes,…

I am taking a look at some of my old stuff from previous years and I found the batch taken on January 1, 2014 when I walked Flushing Avenue past…

So there I was in February 2021, wandering down Boerum Street in Williamsburg. How did I wind up there? Sometimes I just pore over online maps when I feel like…

So a new era begins with Forgotten New York today: this is really the first piece consisting of more than one image I am composing on my new computer, a…

In July, during a temporary cessation of the insane heat and humidity, I walked past a simple building with a wide red door at #411 Kent, just south of Broadway.…

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…

Teddy’s is a Williamsburg institution that has been here since 1887. A vintage stained glass sign for Peter Doelger’s Extra Beer is on the Berry Street side. The Doelgers operated…