Continued from Part 1 PART 2 of my Driggs Avenue odyssey was actually committed to before Part 1. In October 2025 word reached me that an ancient storefront sign had…

WHY show this example of tiled signage at the IND Smith-9th Street station, serving F and G trains? Well, they’re placed in sort of unique circumstances. The Independent Subway was…

ONE can find square metallic covers like this all over town. Many have the name and address of the manufacturer, in this case, Marcy Foundry. In this case, it’s likely…

WHILE well known and possibly not a candidate for a Forgotten NY entry, I did find a P.J. Clarke’s location not everyone may know about. Clarke’s, in its flagship location…

JUST an everyday side street in Woodhaven, a short section of 102nd Avenue runs four blocks from 81st to 89th Street (some numbers are skipped) a block south of 101st…

It has been awhile since I covered or even mentioned the lost Long Island Rail Road Evergreen Branch in Bushwick; not since 2000, a good 26 years now, in fact.…

I walked a great deal from August through early November 2025, and a good thing too, since I have had mobility issues since; who knows if those 5 hour, 10-mile…

DOCTOR John S. Westervelt (1799-1869), the first health officer of the port of New York, who had married Daniel Tompkins’s daughter Hannah, purchased a ninety-eight acre tract that formerly had…

On February 14, 2026 cabin fever finally got to me and I tired of cooking in my own juice, and made my first camera foray of the year. As it…

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…

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…

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…