Filter by our Side PicksAfter the short respite that was 98th Street, devoid of almost all businesses, I was excited to get back in the game with 99th Street. I was immediately rewarded with the sight of El Barrio’s Artspace, … read more
Designed by Charles B.J. Snyder in 1898, PS 109 stopped functioning as a public school in the 1990s. A number of years later, it took a community-driven team to convince the city to take over the building and turn it into affordable housing. In 2015, the eighty-nine spaces became available to artists … read more
St. Michael’s Church, also sometimes known as the Union Church, is an Episcopal congregation that was established in 1807 on its current site. At the time, the neighborhood was referred to as “the Bloomingdale District” and was entirely rural. The present church is the third to be built on this same … read more
