Lost City
13 January 2008

43 Years of Busted Chasses

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You don't see many auto body shops with a sense a history. This one's in the South Slope on Fourth Avenue, a strip filled with car s...
12 January 2008

Greenwich on 57th

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You have to crane your neck to see this forgotten sign for the Greenwich Savings Bank. It's on the east face of a building on w. 57th St...
11 January 2008

History in a Starbucks: 38 Park Row

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Whenever Starbucks opens a franchise below 14th Street in Manhattan, the address can't help but be loaded with history. Case in point: 3...

The Proof Is in the Pudding

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I've always had an affection for the grocery store pudding known as Kozy Shack. Perhaps it was the hokey name, with its intimations of h...
10 January 2008

A Clair Sign

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The old St. Clair Restaurant—which recently closed after 87 years of occupying a corner at Atlantic Avenue and Smith Street, and will reopen...

History in a Starbucks: 164 Smith

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This, the first Starbucks to blight Smith Street in Brooklyn, was once the site of Whalen Brothers , "The Universal Home Providers,...
09 January 2008

The Queensboro Bridge Knows Where Four-Fifths of You Live

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On the Manhattan side of the Queensboro Bridge, on the south side of the entrance, there's a towering metal lamppost on a sold stone ped...
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What Goes on in Queens?

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I just read a Daily News article reprinted on Queens Crap and I feel like my eyes are about to cross. It's about the Jamaica Savings Ba...
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08 January 2008

History in a Starbucks

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Recently, I wrote about a Starbucks that lives on Astor Place at the exact location where the Astor Place Opera House once was, and where, ...
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A Good Sign: C & H Restaurant

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A nice bit of old-school wall painting up in the Bronx. For a narrow corner diner on White Plains Road. Looked nice and comfortable.
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Brooks of Sheffield
New York City, New York
I have lived in New York City since 1988 and earn my bread as a writer. I began this blog in January 2006. Beyond that, don't be so nosy. "I am not a pessimist; to perceive evil where it exists is, in my opinion, a form of optimism." —Roberto Rossellini
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