Think someone's overcompensating here? Green-wood Cemetery has a lot of grandiose monuments erected by a lot of self-important peop...

Last May, Leske's, the last Scandinavian bake shop in the one-time Norse stronghold of Bay Ridge, closed. And so the Brooklyn neighbo...

Perhaps because the location where it happened has been thoroughly sandpapered off the map, the great Brooklyn Theatre Fire of 1876 is li...

The McGovern-Weir Florist, on the western border of Green-Wood Cemetery Sunset Park, has closed up shop. On a recent visit, I found the r...

Timboo's, a classic old dive on Fifth Avenue in the South Slope, has served its last Bud. I passed by recently, and found the bar, ...

Bleecker Street may be touristy. It may teem with bridge and tunnel types, an NYU students on the weekends. It may be a long way from the ...

Eater posted this sad photo of the Bill's Gay Nineties awning being loaded into a moving van. The old-time midtown tavern and for...

Across from P.S. 29, on Henry Street, in Cobble Hill, there's a row of residences. Taking up the south side of the block is a group o...

The Jekyll & Hyde Club on Sixth Avenue is dead and gone. Thank God. Hate-hate-HATED that tacky, touristy pile of bricks. An eyesore o...

What's with the Tudor fever dream at 581 Fifth Avenue near 47th Street? The one that looks like it may have been the birthplace of Sh...