Last summer, a friend of mine suggested, as a way to stave off depression while writing this blog, that I rename is "Found City" ...

I don't look for authenticity in Times Square much anymore. Maybe that's why I've never gone inside Ray's Beauty Supply on ...

Saw this tiny, cement store in Riverhead, Long Island, and like it in so many ways.

The Souvlaki House has been on Lawrence Street, just off grubby old Fulton Mall, for 40 years. This probably makes it one of the few old re...

I don't like donuts in general. But I love Peter Pan Donuts. Unfortunately, I only eat the a couple times a year, whenever I happen to ...

They boast about it. In Times Square.

At some point recently, the indispensable Cobble Hill notions and sundries store Winn Discount changed its name, and its sign, to Winn Home...

Once of the bright spots in the bleakness that is downtown Brooklyn was the leftover Automat sign that could be spied by the watchful on W...

Been to Sam's a number of times over the years. Finally wrote it up for "Who Goes There?" Nice shot of the pizza oven. I'...

The Arby's the worked very hard with the Landmarks Commission to get into the landmarked interior of the old Gage & Tollner space h...