Will This Be There Next Time I Pass By?

The Slow Death of Admiral’s Row

ByScout January 20, 2009January 8, 2014

If you were traveling down Flushing Ave around 1904, this was what you would have seen: Jump forward in time to 2009, and this is what remains: Admiral’s Row is a series of dilapidated yet gorgeous Second Empire-style mansions once used to house officers at the Brooklyn Navy Yard. Some of them date back to…

In Plain Sight | Manhattan

The Cup & Saucer Diner

ByScout January 19, 2009January 8, 2014

New York is overfilled with flashy, archetypal steel-and-glass diners that look like they were transported here directly from the 1950’s. Sadly, as the city has become more and more gentrified, most of them have become carbon copies of each other in terms of quality (shitty) and price (rip-off). One of my favorite diner exteriors is…