Eccentric Roadside

Today, November 11, 2011, is significant in a few ways. It's Veterans Day, the U.S. presidential election is less than a year away, and ...

The Dakota's most famous residents in 1980 (photo by Allen Tannenbaum )... ...and the building as it looks today. At one time, the Le...

The legendary jazz musician Duke Ellington made New York City his home for many years and when he died, the city renamed West 106th Street D...

Jackie Gleason as Ralph Kramden: Bus Driver, Raccoon Lodge Treasurer, Dreamer How sweet it is that the folks at the TV Land network ...

The trend these days in well-lit places like Times Square and the Las Vegas Strip seems to be toward big screen projection signs and less ab...

George Molchan as Little Oscar in the 1950s. The first Wienermobile, 1936. New York City's Times Square is a too-much-is-never-enough ki...

Ernie's Hamden park is in the Stop & Shop parking lot. I grew up in the town of Hamden, Connecticut, a suburb to the north of New Ha...

A nice compliment to New York City's Peanut Butter & Co. (see below) is Rice To Riches, a dessert emporium in Manhattan's SoHo d...