This "especially fine example of a traditional Dutch Colonial farmhouse" was built in the first few years of the 19th century. After the house changed hands in 1916, the new owner moved it here from its original site farther south and added the dormer windows; the little entrance portico was a 1952 addition.

As I approached this gentleman and peered into his open shoulder bag, I began to discern the cause of his wobble.

Wider view

Right up there with Humid Alley and Moist Terrace

A private Jewish school in what seems to have once been Public School 98. (The building looks nothing like it did in its architectural drawings, however.)

This block-long alley runs between East 21st and East 22nd Streets. Four and a half miles north along East 21st Street, as we've seen, lies a little cul-de-sac named Kenmore Terrace. The fact that the two Kenmores share a name is not a coincidence: it turns out that East 21st, the street that connects them, used to be a Kenmore itself — Kenmore Place. (It appears that a short stretch of East 21st Street was actually officially co-named Kenmore Place in 2000, restoring its historical appellation, although the street signs in that section do not reflect this change.)

This overly basketed (look at the ceiling!) gourmet grocery store occupies a good portion of what used to be Lundy's, a massive seafood restaurant with seating for some 1,700 diners. Here's some info about (and more photos of) the sumptuous decor, and here's an exterior shot of the block-long building, which looks out onto the waters of Sheepshead Bay.

Another of Sheepshead Bay's narrow little thoroughfares

at the old lighthouse on Shell Bank Creek