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Just when you think you’ve found them all… you just keep discovering even more. That’s the story of Forgotten New York’s fascination with ancient building advertising — there are still painted ads on buildings that come from as early as 1890, and new ads are added all the time that, in 50 or 60 years’ [...]
Categorized in: Ads
Forgotten NY has always supported mermaid-themed art (currently I’m compiling a page full of mermaids used in posters, architecture and advertising) and Beaux-Arts sculptors and architects have also, from the looks of things, been fond of homo ichthyus as well; in the New York Botanical Garden, the Lillian Goldman Fountain of Life and Queens’ much-derided Civic Virtue, at Borough Hall, use [...]
Categorized in: Forgotten Slices Tagged with: Bronx fountains
May 2009: Most of the Bronx press attention has gone to theYankees’ new billion-dollar launching pad (where they have already lost 22-4 and more lopsided scores) where the displaced parks will be built on top of parking lots, and where dozens of prime seats are sitting empty night after night because they cost $2560 per seat, per [...]
Categorized in: Alleys Forgotten Slices Tagged with: Bronx Concourse Village
Avail yourself of a walk down the new Hudson River Park walkway along West Street, 11th and 12th Avenues (stay out of the bike lane — they’ll kill ya) and you’ll see some nifty new T-shaped, aquamarine-painted walkway lamps. Note the bases and finials — they’re shaped like ziggurated NYC skyscrapers. It’s not a new design [...]
Categorized in: Forgotten Slices Street Lamps Tagged with: Harlem Manhattan Triborough Bridge
Categorized in: Street Scenes Tagged with: Kips Bay Manhattan
With NYC apparently preparing to finish the East River walkway from the Battery all the way to the northern end of the island, and Cy Adler’s “Great Saunter,” a 32-mile walk around the entire island, in the books for 2009, I thought it appropriate to turn to some of the photos that your webmaster shot with ForgottenFan Vicki along [...]
Categorized in: Forgotten Slices Tagged with: East River Manhattan
Comes the word this week (May 4, 2009) that one more butcher is leaving the Meatpacking District… as the NY Post ran it, according to Pat LaFrieda, ”A lot of people would like to see us out of here. We don’t fit no more.” Most of the butchers have moved to more welcoming territory in New Jersey and upstate [...]
Categorized in: Forgotten Slices Neighborhoods Tagged with: Manhattan Meatpacking
Since 1973, Mount Morris Park, located along Madison Avenue between East 120th and East 123rd Streets (it interrupts the northern progress of Fifth Avenue for 4 blocks) has been known as Marcus Garvey Park. The roadway that forms its western boundary is still called Mount Morris Park West, however, as is the immediate surrounding area [...]
Categorized in: Neighborhoods Tagged with: Harlem Manhattan Mount Morris Park
