As Ray Davies puts it on a song on the Kinks’ Village Green Preservation Society LP, People take pictures of each other Just to prove that they really existed I’d seen photos of the wooden elevated cars that ran on Brooklyn Rapid Transit and later, Brooklyn-Manhattan Transit, and I had even stood in them in the NYC Transit Museum. [...]
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1907 BRT CARS
October 17, 2004Categorized in: Subways & Trains Tagged with: elevated Queens Rockaway vintage cars
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LOWER EAST SIGNS
October 16, 2004
THE Lower East Side of cheap clothing bins, wholesale bargains and sweatshops is vanishing, as Chinatown expands east into its southern section (between, say, Delancey and Canal) and hipsters and yuppies infiltrate its northern flank, between Delancey and Houston. The LES, though, is still very much a bargain clothing enclave, though, and for some reason, [...]
Categorized in: Signs Tagged with: Manhattan. Lower East Side