In Plain Sight

  • The House That Created Howard Stern

    The House That Created Howard Stern

    A few weeks ago, I was driving out to Long Island to scout some airports while listening to the Howard Stern Show on Sirius-XM. During a replay of an old interview with Eddie Murphy, Stern and Murphy began commiserating over having grown up in the town of Roosevelt, Long Island – and I suddenly realized…

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  • Back in Time on Ivy Hill Road

    Back in Time on Ivy Hill Road

    Well, there’s certainly no hill…

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  • Reader Emails About The Little Abandoned Terra-Cotta Building!

    I was thrilled that so many of you love the little building under the 59th Street bridge as much as I do. I received a bunch of emails about the old Terra-Cotta Works, including one from someone whose great great grandfather worked there from around 1910 to 1920 and took of the building when it…

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  • A Very Creepy House in Brooklyn

    Scouting NY is having a Halloween contest in which you submit a picture of your favorite local eerie property and win tickets to NY’s infamous Nightmare Haunted House! This is what my submission would be… This is what I imagine it looks like when a house possessed by evil opens one eye to stare at…

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