Egidio Pastry, the excellent Bronx pasticceria, turns 100 year. You can read all about the Belmont-area store in this earlier post of mi...

This is one of the mighty trees of Carroll Park that were felled by Hurricane Sandy. Much has been carved up and hauled away, but the bas...

A reader sent in this lovely photo of an old sign that sits above a children's clothing store called Thank Heaven on Austin Street ...

There's nothing positive to say about the state Hurricane Sandy left Red Hook in. But the storm did pull off one slightly interesting...

"Give it Ur Best, Sandy," taunt the spray-painted words on the side of some scaffolding on Van Brunt Street. Sandy did. And, ...

Here's a shot of Smith Street, in Carroll Gardens, in the 1960s. It's a stretch of the street just opposite Carroll Park. We'...

Carroll Gardens weathered Hurricane Sandy fairly well. Compared the ravages suffered by Red Hook, in fact, if got off pretty much scot fr...

Here's a potent, Southern-style mercantile combination. Loans! Guns! Musical Instruments! It's hard to enumerate the things t...

When Hurricane Sandy hit, Sunny's Bar in Red Hook was in its direct path. Few, if any New York bars, are closer to the waterfront or ...

The wonderful, and very large, neon sign is on E. Main Street in downtown Louisville. The company has been operating and family-owned sin...