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Jane! Stop these crazy things! There are some streetlamps on the East Side in the 30s that resemble props from an animated Jetsons cartoon. But these venerable poles are now over sixty years old! (Come to think of it George is over 50 himself.) With their sci-fi, futuristic design, the streetlamps that line “Tunnel Entrance” and [...]
Categorized in: Street Lamps Tagged with: Manhattan Queens Midtown Tunnel
New York City contains several fine zoos (and we’ll use the un-PC term ‘zoos’ here)… the Bronx Zoo, the Central Park Zoo, the Prospect Park Zoo in Brooklyn, even the Queens Farm has a nice petting zoo complete with farm animals, and the Coney Island Aquarium is world class. But NYC also has zoos and [...]
Categorized in: Street Scenes
It’s not who you think. The last resting place of the 18th President, Ulysses S. Grant, and his wife on Riverside Drive on the Upper West Side has been the subject of NYC’s most infamous, and silliest, riddle over the years. The correct answer is that nobody is buried under the monument…Grant and his wife [...]
Categorized in: Cemeteries Tagged with: Manhattan Manhattanville
