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*On these pages we'll do short...sometimes very* short...examinations of a 2-4 block area of selected NYC neighborhoods. Your webmaster may get very opinionated here.**
			Eddie's Sweet Shop, Forest Hills

10/1/08 Denyse Wharf, Brooklyn
9/30/08 Fat Boy abides. Queens' "Civic Virtue"
9/25/08 The sculptures of Parkchester
9/23/08 I've Got Pieces of Dahill
9/16/08 The Little Lighthouse of the Bronx, in High Bridge
9/11/08 Where Brooklyn Worked. Former Park Slope factories
9/9/08 Remembering Niederstein's of Middle Village
9/4/08 Signs of Nine. Terrific signs in Hell's Kitchen
9/2/08 West 59th, where gnomes gnaw
8/15/08 The Other Monument on Riverside Drive
8/14/08 Signgate On Jamiaca Avenue, a shy printer and an ice skating boot factory
8/12/08 North 10th Street, where the Fedders, the richies, and the Willieburg oldtimers all meet
8/6/08 All's Not Wellner in Jackson Square
8/4/08 Dunham Deal in Williamsburg
8/1/08 Remembrance of a Lamppost Past in Gansevoort Plaza
7/31/08 The Rising of Flushing's Broadway LIRR station
7/28/08 The Taming of Gansevoort Plaza
7/24/08 And then there's Renwick, the new jewel in Hudson Square's crown
7/21/08 Tale of Two Traincars in Queens and Brooklyn
7/11/08 Might as well Jump to honor a Forgotten pioneer
7/7/08 Signs of the times on 5th Avenue. The 60s and 70s, that is
7/2/08 St. George, Staten Island: urban oasis
6/30/08 Isn't it a Pythy on West 70th
6/27/08 Brief encounter with exposed West 32nd Street ads
6/26/08 Queens and the alphabet: Kneeland Avenue
6/23/08 Short-distance runarounds in Little Neck
6/16/08 A good day for the roses in NY Botanical Garden
6/11/08 Flatbush sampler on the annual house tour
6/4/08 NYC's greatest building corner street sign
6/2/08 Institution. My old home on 73rd Street
5/28/08 Coney Island, baby. Avenue.
5/21/08 A little Bedford Park can't hurt
5/19/08 The Old Main Drag. Stewart Avenue, Bay Ridge
5/15/08 3rd Avenue. Punks? In Bay Ridge?
5/13/08 Alleys, my alleys in Chinatown
5/7/08 Lord of the Alley in Elmhurst
5/6/08 The Tin Woodsman of Woodside
5/2/08 Pieces of 78th Street
5/1/08 Great Scott. Revisiting a footbridge
4/29/08 Ocean, Brooklyn's neglected avenue
4/24/08 Cleveland in Queens: Ridgewood Terrace
4/23/08 Good Charlotte. A Ridgewood cul-de-sac
4/22/08 Stockholm Syndrome. Ridgewood's landmarked block
4/15/08 Dog Days. A look back at Al Deppe's
4/11/08 Historic signs in Woodhaven and Richmond Hill
4/10/08 Walking the William B.
4/7/08 Douglaston, briefly
3/31/08 Some secrets in Tompkins Square Park
3/28/08 St. Saviour's Church awaits a possible move, its original exterior revealed
3/27/08 Mighty Oak. A Fiske Terrace (Brooklyn) SRO awaits fate: teardown or reno?
3/25/08 Sixth Out There. Remaining classic 6th Ave buildings
3/20/08 The Mysterious Island on the Collier globe
3/18/08 The Place to (Avenue) B
3/14/08 The mysterious Park Slope Collage
3/11/08 Appendages and doodads on NYC lampposts
3/5/08 Fillmore East Tiles mark the great concert venue
3/3/08 Winter light on Mercer Street
2/28/08 Little Neck Farmhouse
2/25/08 23 Skiddoo 2. Or is it 3?
2/22/08 Snow at Last. Remembering the big snows of yesterday
2/21/08 Wide-Open Queens in Fresh Meadows
2/20/08 Ft. Greene Scenes Brooklyn Tech, Officers' Row
2/18/08 Marathon Run Queens' Marathon Parkway
2/14/08 Lamp Sampler from Bob Mulero
2/13/08 Broadway Iron. Lower Broadway building sampler
2/11/08 Flatbush Avenue Triangles of Park Slope
2/7/08 Soda & Candy. The Lexington Candy Shop.
2/6/08 Lascoff's. Hold the food, bring the leeches
2/4/08 Yorktown: eine kleines Deutschland
1/31/08 Day in Court A couple of secrets at Brooklyn's Boro Hall/Court-Montague subway station
1/28/08 Navy Secrets. A look at some of the Brooklyn Navy Yard's historic buildings
1/23/08 Goin' to Gowanus
1/16/08 Oh, Doctor! The old NY Cancer Hospital
1/14/08 Represent! Staten Island's Ambassador Apartments
1/11/08 Man of the People 2007's book tour
1/10/08 Brooklyn's Forgotten Alley One of them, at least.
1/8/08 Bronxwood Park Bronx Brigadoon?
1/7/08 Jolly On The Shore, a bit of Bay Ridge's Shore Road
1/2/08 Behind the Gray Door. A historic relic comes to the Greater Astoria Historical Society
12/31/07 Trinity Bridge and its predecessor
12/19/07 Cornered. Building street signs
12/13/07 Tommy Can You Hear Us. Illegal housing in Maspeth
12/11/07 Ancient marine reptile surfaces in Brooklyn
12/6/07 Autumno-porn in Queens
12/4/07 Help Me, Howard: Howard Street and unvarnished Soho
11/29/07 FAIRly Breathin' in Chelsea
11/27/07 Last Jahn's Standing isn't in Richmond Hill
11/25/07 Pearl Street history disappears
11/19/07 Nothing Bright (Food) about it
11/18/07 Grand Illusion of a beautiful borough
11/14/07 "Iggy" Popped: The Lone Star iguana, wherever it is, mourns the condition of its old building
11/11/07 Cuckoo Corcoran: Realty queen suggests paving over Queens lawns
11/8/07 Borough Park: a map error, and an abandoned beauty parlor
11/5/07 The Cryder farm lives on in the Whitestone Tower
11/1/07 A Piece of Eighth Street
10/30/07 Staten Island Mysteries
10/22/07 Piano Man Mott Haven reminiscences
10/18/07 NYC lamppost survivors
10/15/07 Dwight Baum's YMCA
10/10/07 Open Sesame. Open House NY 2007, Part 2
10/8/07 Open Sesame. Open House NY 2007, Part 1
10/4/07 Post-humorous mural in Port Richmond
10/1/07 Subway gold...in Staten Island
9/28/07 The Faces of Madison Avenue
9/27/07 The Abandoned Bank in Douglaston
9/17/07 Perry Little, a bit of Perry Street
9/13/07 Street with 3 names in Little Neck
9/10/07Columbus' latest discovery, an original 1904 plaque at Columbus Circle subway
9/7/07 Lullaby of Broadway. LIRR eliminates 1913 station design
9/6/07 First Time. Clocks in Lenox Hill
8/30/07 Soda, Candy and a Slice. ForgottenFan contributions
8/27/07 View from The Coop. Demolitions cause temporary vistas.
8/23/07 Macy's, uptown and downtown
8/16/07 Park Hill, Staten Island, Adventures in Vandyland
8/15/07 Don't leave home without Fido, the American Express bulldog
8/13/07 Flushing Meadows' sorry state plus a surprise
8/9/07 52nd Street Slice in Sunset Park
8/8/07 Vanishing Cream: Slices of Ridgewood
8/6/07 Alben Square, where the Dead played Brooklyn
8/2/07 Torched! City Island Museum vows to rebuild
8/1/07 Marvelous Night for 2 NYC diners
7/30/07 Forest Hills rowhouses
7/27/07 PATH terminal downtown
7/26/07 Greenpoint

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