My friend Heather Quinlan, who created If These Knishes Could Talk, an examination of the famed New York City accent, is here in front of the riotously Art Deco entrance of The Golden Gate apartment building at 41-00 43rd Avenue in Sunnyside, Queens, a building of which NJ 101.5 deejay Don Tandler (The Record Handler) […]
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ART DECO in WASHINGTON HEIGHTS, Manhattan
December 28, 2008
By GARY FONVILLE Washington Heights is ideally situated in New York City.†Depending on driving conditions, a motorist can whisk westward to New Jersey across the George Washington Bridge in minutes. The George Washington Bridge Bus Station is located near the A train where thousands of commuters can go to the many suburban communities in New […]
Categorized in: Street Scenes Tagged with: Art Deco Manhattan
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REPRESENT! Staten Island Art Deco
January 14, 2008There’s a riot going on at 30 Daniel Low Terrace, at Belmont Place, in New Brighton, Staten Island. A riot of design and ornamentation and color, that is, at the Ambassador Apartments, built in 1932 by architect Lucien Pisciatta. The Ambassador has a showbiz pedigree, as well as an architectural one: among its former tenants in the […]
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