LOOKING through NYC scenes from the 1930s and 1940s available on 1940s.nyc, the Staten Island scenes occasionally exhibit lamppost varieties quite different from those seen in other boroughs, such as…
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ANY educator worth their reputation would never permit students to use Wikipedia as a source, as any individual can edit its articles. Having contributed pages to the world’s largest free…
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In late 2025, Studio Museum in Harlem, 144 W 125th Street near Adam Clayton Powell Blvd., opened the doors to its new six-story building , the latest chapter for this…
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WHILE trolling Google Street View (I do it to pass the hours between waking and sleeping) I found this interesting item on the corner of Hillside Avenue and 143rd Street…
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THE main branch of the Long Island Railroad runs east-west through the heart of Queens, exiting the borough into Nassau County in Bellerose. The railroad also diverges into two branches…
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SEEN here is a scene I snapped in April 2016 — fully ten years ago! — on Lafayette Avenue and Cortelyou Place in Staten Island. Many sections of Staten Island…
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At the end of my Wagner-Hudson River Park jaunt in the fall of 2025, to get back to the IRT for the trip uptown to Penn Station, I meandered east…
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LUTHER GULICK PLAYGROUND is a welcome quadrangle of green located between Broome, Delancey, Willett and Columbia Streets on the Lower East Side. It was founded in 1933 as Bernard Downing…
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FROM the Rockaway Times Facebook page comes this image of the classic red with gold lettering F.W. Woolworth sign, after previous tenants’ signs (Edwina’s Little Angels Daycare and Job Lots)…
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On a walk in the recently reopened southern section of East River Park in October 2025 I spotted the tug Stephen B. guiding the barge John Blanche in the East…
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THROUGHOUT its 142-year (and counting) history, the Brooklyn Bridge has featured unique road and walkway lighting. I thought I’d show some historic black and white photos illustrating this, courtesy the…
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AMONG the buildings which I forgot to describe in my recent essay on Pacific Park in Brooklyn is the Co-Cathedral of Saint Joseph on Pacific Street (previously seen on this…