New Halloween decor outside the East Village dive bar Mars Bar. What can you say? It's kinda true, kinda not. I still feel the EV has a...

Unlike, perhaps, the rest of the world, I am not happy when a restaurant backs down on its coat and tie dress code. (Witness my response to ...

An image of Times Square, circa July 4 1976, sent by a reader. "Taxi Driver" era. Where does one go for a "Supersexual Escap...

This is a wonderfully curious building. It's at 36 W. 56th Street, between Fifth and Sixth. It looks like a bit of H.H. Richardson Roman...

A year and a half ago I wrote about a Starbucks on Columbus Circle and the building's history before the coffee giant came along. Six mo...

The recent plywood sheds placed around the BQE Lead Shacks are really doing their job. Didn't take much wind for this hazardous material...

Tapping the top of a soda or beer can before opening it, and tapping the end of a cigarette pack before opening it. People do it. It's a...

St. Stephen's Scaffolding Started to Come Down ; Strange Modernist Emptiness on W. 56th ; Chumley's Got a Liquor License ; T he Low...

On Sackett Street in Carroll Gardens. Is is possible to make the building more personality-free? Why didn't the developer just tape toge...

Something about Carroll Gardens moniker has always confounded merchants. You never see a Cobble Hills Deli or Parks Slope Hardware, but miss...