The owner of a former — you guessed it — Chevy dealership on Fordham Road, he was apparently one of the first business owners to appear in his own TV commercials, paving the way for brilliant salesmen like these.

After photographing this wall in bewilderment, I turned around to find four gnarly-looking dudes dressed in leather sitting outside a building across the street. All appearances to the contrary (including the swastikas), the guy I talked to (wearing a backwards baseball cap in the fifth image of this slideshow) was actually quite friendly. He and his comrades are members of the Ching-a-Ling Nomads motorcycle club, an offshoot of a 60s-era Puerto Rican street gang.

St. Anthony of Padua Church

Mount Horeb is a congregation of black Jews, or Hebrew Israelites, formerly led by Rabbi Hailu Paris.

this one is actually a church.

This picture would have been boring without him anyway.

This centerpiece of an otherwise empty lot was formed more than a billion years ago.

I can't believe it's taken me this long to find a second one of these. I must have obliviously passed by several others. Nonetheless, the search continues...

Another tribute to the victims of the Happy Land fire

Your two main sandwich bread options at a typical New York corner deli: hero (sub roll) and roll (kaiser roll). I guess that makes the roll an antihero.