Welcome to Forgotten NY’snewest installment of “Who Are Those Guys & Gals” in which we investigate statues of real people in Manhattan. Some are instantly recognizable, some are not recognizable at all, but if you’ve ever wondered who they are…you came to the right place… CONTINUED FROM PART 3 (1855-1929) Location: 2 Penn Plaza Sculptor: Adolph [...]
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Monthly Archives: May 2013
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WHO ARE THOSE GUYS (AND GALS) Part 4, Midtown
June 30, 2002Categorized in: Street Scenes Tagged with: Bryant Park Manhattan Midtown statues Times Square
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ELMHURST, Queens
June 24, 2002
Early British colonists in Maspeth were chased out by angry Native Americans, and found themselves where Queens Boulevard meets Broadway today. There they met a possibly more implacable foe…the Dutch, who had this thing about naming places in Dutch, and the Brits were forced to call their new settlement Middelburgh (or Middletown). That name persists as [...]
Categorized in: Neighborhoods Tagged with: Elmhurst Queens Queens Boulevard