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.

Another tribute to the victims of the Happy Land fire

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...

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

This picture would have been boring without him anyway.

this one is actually a church.

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

St. Anthony of Padua Church

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.

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.