Today's the last day to pay a visit on Skyline Books . The 20-year-old Flatiron District mainstay on W. 18th Street will close for good...

This morning, JVNY brings us the very depressing news that Skyline Books , my absolute favorite used book store in the City for the last 2...

A reader the Flickr contribution recently sent the above picture. I recognized it as a familiar stretch of small indy businesses along the s...

Trouble and turmoil at the Rat-Squirrel House ; Guss' Pickles Is Moving to Brooklyn, and Without Its Name ; The South Brooklyn Bike Thie...

My favorite part of maintaining Lost City are the occasions when, while reaching out to New York’s past, New York’s past reaches out to me. ...

Attached to the New York Life Building. Building that were so important they had their own private subway entrance (Bloomingdale's, the ...

The Fishs Eddy on Broadway near Union Square wants you to know exactly what is going on with it.

There's a Duane Reade drug store on Broadway and 20th that's making a half-assed attempt at looking like part of Old New York. Befor...

I write enough about the City's old taverns, you'd think I'd know every musty watering hole in town. I guess not. A reader wrote...

This corner at 22nd Street and Broadway in the Flatiron District, now home to the faux-antique charms of Restoration Hardware, has seen its ...

Great old diner at the corner of Third Avenue and 16th Street. Not sure of its birthdate, but based on the class "Steaks Chops Seafood...

From Eater . New Yorkers read the news, roll with the punches, and then sit down and eat a sandwich.

Just thought I'd get all Stieglitz on you.