Today on MacDougal Street

Filming the new Kevin Spacey movie in Cafe Reggio

Red Hook, Brooklyn

Canal Street, 1940s

Lower East Side, 1942

Bedford–Stuyvesant, Brooklyn

South Slope, Brooklyn

Harlem, 1970

Tribeca: Vanished.

I miss this slim, beautiful building. The entire block razed in Tribeca to make way for luxury residential units. 

The pre-gentrification High Line, 2008

Broadway at 49th Street, 1966

Mousey's Bar, Avenue C and 13th Street, Manhattan, 1976

Now including my coverage of Greenwich Village jazz

The great pianist and vocalist Jamie Cullum at Downbeat magazine

"Chinese say..." Manhattan, 1940s

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Amused Europeans laugh at dancing fools in Washington Square Park

Wall Tower, Chelsea

Times Square, 1985

Winter Jazz Fest

White Castle, Harrison, NJ

Goodbye Frankie & Johnnie

 A former speakeasy in the theater district, Frankie & Johnnie steakhouse was quintessential old school New York. The walls were covered in the publicity photos of the many stars who dined their through the years. Jack Klugman, Tony Randall, Alan King, Nanette Fabray, and many, many more. As the tourists walk by the old spot on their way to a show or MacDonalds or Olive Garden, another little piece of genuine NYC history is dead.