The details in a place as old as the Old Town Bar pile up over the decades. You can visit regularly and not notice everything on the walls, ...

As this is the last week before Christmas—and I've got a lot of photos left—I'll be providing a Christmas Cheer of the Day photo in ...

From Lydia, in response to my July 2008 post about the East Village remains of the Mission Chapel of the Immaculate Virgin, founded in 1881...

Borough Hall, downtown Brooklyn.

The window of the Station Cafe dive bar in Woodside, Queens.

I finally made it to Rolf's , the happy-looking German restaurant on Third and 22nd. I hope the quirky place sticks around for a long ti...

Gargantuan Christmas lights to go with humungous ornaments, on Sixth Avenue.

These two billboards, hung side by side on Seventh Avenue, seem somehow to capture the spirit of the current Times Square. They're both ...

The tree in Gramercy Park.

Stop Inn, the decades-old diner in Woodside, Queens, is getting a new awning. It's lime green, it's commonplace, it's plastic an...