For over 30 years I have been engaged as a professional transportation planner, attorney, and author in the city of New York, with a concomitant interest in urban history, development, and cartography. In recent years I have turned my attention to genealogical research, where the foregoing skills have been especially useful in finding and understanding the panoply (and sometimes dearth) of relevant records relating to the city of New York and, in particular, Queens County.

For over 30 years I have been engaged as a professional transportation planner, attorney, and author in the city of New York, with a concomitant interest in urban history, development, and cartography. In recent years I have turned my attention to genealogical research, where the foregoing skills have been especially useful in finding and understanding the panoply (and sometimes dearth) of relevant records relating to the city of New York and, in particular, Queens County.