Just a bunch more superannuated ads you can find walking around Manhattan. Not only do some of them show off now-forgotten products, they play up the stark changes that have come…
August 1999
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Everyone has heard of Grauman’s Chinese Theatre in Hollywood, where generations of film stars have signed their names and imprinted their hands in wet concrete. It turns out we have…
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North of Fourteenth Street, Manhattan is pretty uniform, with only Broadway and Central Park interrupting the gridiron of streets between 14th Street and 110th. Still, there are a few obscure…
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Cornelius McCracken, the president of New York University, had a peach of an idea back in 1901. He would place a classical arcade on one of the highest points in…
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In the 1930s and continuing into the 1950s, New York City went through a great deal of expense to eliminate its elevated trains. One by one, the celebrated els of…
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I’ve been visiting the amazing Historic Richmond Town in the heart of Staten Island for a few years now — and if you haven’t been there yet, I’d heartily recommend…