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My first memories of Williamsburg came during ages 14-17, when our high school bowling team (on our way to getting whomped by St. Francis Prep and Xaverian) would pile into a Dodge van and trundle up Kent Avenue on our way to the lanes (in a deserted section of Greenpoint at Humboldt and Moultrie Streets). In [...]
Categorized in: Neighborhoods Tagged with: Brooklyn Williamsburg
New York has a marvelous collection of neon signs, and while we’ve heretofore collected scads of them on previous Signs pages we’ve never previously done a Neon Nights page, when the signs are doing what they were born to do. Your webmaster’s Canon Powershot S1 IS is ill-equipped for night photography. That’s why you call [...]
LIVING FOR THE CITY, PART 1 City Hall Park New York’s present City Hall was completed in 1811 and is the third City Hall overall. Though most of the surrounding park closest to City Hall itself was closed off to the public in the aftermath of the terrorist attacks of 9/11/01, the remainder actually has [...]
Categorized in: Subways & Trains Tagged with: City Hall IRT Manhattan
EVEN though I have chronicled NYC’s lost, magnificent City Hall Station a number of times in Forgotten NY I had only visited once before, in a 1998 Transit Museum tour that occurred before Mayor Rudy Giuliani closed (presciently, it must be admitted) the old station to touring, fearing terrorism. I just went back again (7/06) for [...]
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On this page I continue to explore the fascination I have with the human faces, monstrous images, or combinations of both, that appear on buildings around town that were mostly built in the Beaux Arts or Victorian era, 1850-1900. Though I’m aware they have their origins in myth as far as design is concerned, and owe a [...]
Categorized in: Street Scenes Tagged with: Brooklyn Manhattan
While meandering about desultorily in the rain down Maiden Lane in the eastern Financial District downtown in May 2003 I came across an unmarked street issuing north. I ascertained after about a block’s march that I had stumbled on Gold Street, which, to me at the time, embodied all that they tell you about downtown Manhattan’s meandering [...]
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