A reader wrote in in dismay last week to report that workmen were tearing down a one-story structure at 155 E. 79th Street between Lexing...

As a dedicated defender of unique New York, I am not one to knock indy NYC businesses. And certainly not one to knock old indy NYC busin...

If I lived in the neighborhood, I'd go to Lexington Candy Shop three times a weeks. As it is, I live about an hour's subway ride ...

I thought upper Lexington Avenue had a special force field surrounding it (i.e.—influential rich people) that allowed an inordinate num...

For reasons I do not understand, the intersection of 86th Street and Lexington has managed to fend off the plague of crappy, modern, anonym...

Sometimes delis can surprise you. A lot are interchangeable. But fairly often, proud owners do a little something decor- or merchandise-wis...

The sign at 1390 Second Avenue says Klausner Supply. But you look at the display in the storefront window and there are no plumbing fixture...

You know those ridiculously bad illustrations that some old school barbers and dry cleaners have in their windows, the 1970s-style, everybo...

Every time I pass by the address of dentist Richard Chiang D.D.S, on upper First Avenue, I'm tempted to knock on the door and ask, ...

I usually only see the Goldberger's sign in the daytime. Yesterday, I got lucky and caught the Upper East Side landmark in all its lit-...

I didn't make it for the last night at Elaine's, the Upper East Side boite that closed for good on Thursday, May 26, but a reader, ...

This one doesn't hurt me as much as yesterday's news that Joe's Superette has closing. I was never a regular at Elaine's , ...

I was just talking last night with a Upper East Side-dwelling friend of mine about the wonderful unchanging character of upper Lexington Av...

It's obvious, I know. But, for some reason (probably because it's obvious), I've never set it aside for distinction. So here it...

I've never written about Serendipity, even though it's a local business, very sui generis , half a century old, and would seem to b...

I said in my farewell to the blogging life two weeks ago that I would continue to write the "Who Goes There?" column for Eater. ...

I've gotten so used to Gino crying wolf so often over the past year that I feel into a false sense of security that the Lexington Avenu...

Say goodbye to this familiar yellow door. Eater reports that the New York Post reports that the 64 year-old Upper East Side restaurant Gino...

For the longest time, the view of Le Veau d'Or and Gino's, two Upper East Side landmarks, has been obscured by a tangle of unsightly...

Gino, the age-old red sauce joint on upper Lex, is one of those places that doesn't accept credit cards—even though a meal there will pr...