I went to dine at one of my favorite places in New York City, the Danish Athletic Club in Bay Ridge, just before Christmas. I had heard...

Behold, what is surely the only neon sign in New York City that spells out "Dog & Cat"! This is the Bay Ridge Animal Hospit...

I don't know much at Alleon Pharmacy. But the Bay Ridge drug store has gone out of business. And it has this love piece of signage of...

Last May, Leske's, the last Scandinavian bake shop in the one-time Norse stronghold of Bay Ridge, closed. And so the Brooklyn neighbo...

Hinsch's, the 63-year-old soda fountain and luncheonette that was one of the oldest and best things about Bay Ridge, has abruptly close...

Sometimes, I suffer from bad timing, and don't get to visit a classic New York institution before it bites the dust. Not in the case ...

This is in Bay Ridge. I've heard the nabe called a lot of things. But Ridgeboro? That's a new one on me.

Leske's Bakery, on Fifth Avenue in Bay Ridge, is one of the last remnants of the neighborhood's once thriving Scandinavian populati...

In Bay Ridge, Brooklyn.

This is my first Bay Ridge "Who Goes There?" column and it's long overdue. I thank photographer Daniel Krieger, who took t...

After a long, bitter battle, Bay Ridge's famous "Green Church" is gone . A demolition crew laid it low on Tuesday, Oct. 20, en...

Somebody finally got the bottom (sort of) of the mystery behind Carroll Gardens' Vermont Market and Pharmacy. This gal can't forge...

A Maspeth cemetery caretaker's house dating from the 1800s will be sold and probably knocked down because, well, its in Queens. This th...

What with the annual Norwegian Day Parade due to take place in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn, this Sunday, May 20, I thought I would point out that th...

Don't look for this charming throwback in Bay Ridge for much longer. Senators Dinettes is out of business and the space is up for rent. ...

Found this on a wall in Bay Ridge, lost among the surrounding dung heap of auto body stores and spare tire outfits. The flags surround the S...

Being partly of Norwegian descent, their was a time when I would treck down to Bay Ridge from time to time whenever I got in the mood for so...