I started my Sunday morning far from home. I was milling about on a subway platform, with around thirty other people, trying to stay warm. We had all convened for a daylong tour of the neighborhoods along the J train, starting in Brooklyn, winding our way to Queens and then back again, ending at the Essex Street station in the Lower East Side. Our tour guide for the day was Jack Eichenbaum, who also leads tours for the Municipal Art Society of New York and is the official Queens Borough Historian. Born and raised in Queens, Jack has a passion for the history of the city that immediately sweeps you up in nostalgia. The Broadway Junction subway platform along the J train The Broadway Junction subway station complex, our starting point for the day, is notable for three reasons. It’s one of the highest elevated platforms in the city, it has an art installation… Read More