David Freeland, the author of the new book, "Automats, Taxi Dances, and Vaudeville: Excavating Manhattan’s Lost Places of Leisure,...

The story behind 190 Bowery makes you realize that certain things can only happen in New York. The six-story, stone, corner building was bui...

I quite like this wheeled advertisement for Red Hook's Liberty Sunset Garden Center. It's parked on Van Brunt Street near Fairway mo...

Poet Frank O'Hara's former digs have been gutted. [Curbed] Rainy Parachute Jump . [GVDP] Scouting New York finds some streets with...

I was so heartened by the recent reports that the 76th precinct had caught a couple rampant Brooklyn bike thieves, that I started locking my...

And for my last posting on "Positively Third Street," something that's actually on the eastern dead end of Second Street (clos...

It doesn't take too much imagination, does it, to imagine this empty, graffiti-and-weed-filled lot decades ago, crowded with trucks and ...

A squat little survivor on Hoyt Street just off Third. It says "carriage house" like nobody's business. Maybe a stables, actua...

Says the obsolete loading dock.

This is actually on Third Place, not Third Street. But close enough. I am guessing that, with the new Carroll Gardens downsizing rezoning is...