1840s-era building, Broadway north of Canal
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FABRIC SIGN
March 14, 2012To paraphrase Yogi, you can observe a lot by looking. I was walking up Broadway after getting a new tour guide license when these painted window signs for Izquierdo & Vila, fabric exporters, manifested themselves at Franklin Street. The elaborate lettering for the word “Fabrics” seems to point the ad toward the 1920s, 30s at [...]
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BROADWAY from Greeley to Union Squares
May 23, 2010Categorized in: Street Scenes Tagged with: Broadway Manhattan
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BROADWAY HOUSE NUMBERS in Noho
December 28, 2008Do architects design house numbers as parts of buildings anymore? Today house numbers are usually indicated by metal numbers attached separately above the door, or if we’re really talking cheap, by glued-back numbers that get slapped on transoms or on front doors. In a recent stroll on Broadway on Open House NY weekend, I noticed [...]
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BROADWAY, BRONX, Part 2
December 7, 2008CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 End of the Line The northern end of the IRT 7th Avenue line, the West 242nd Street Station, serves the #1 local. An unfortunate quirk of the 7th Avenue IRT is the fact that it is all local above the 96th Street station. The situation is alleviated somewhat by wide spacing [...]
Categorized in: Neighborhoods Street Scenes Tagged with: Broadway Bronx Riverdale
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BROADWAY, BRONX, Part 1
December 7, 2008All five boroughs have a Main Street, there are some streets you might think are in the wrong borough, and all five have a Broadway. The Bronx’ Broadway, though, is an extension of Manhattan’s Broadway, which has existed from antiquity first as an Indian trail that ran the length of Manhattan Island, then as a [...]
Categorized in: Street Scenes Tagged with: Broadway Bronx Riverdale
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Iron fronted buildings of LOWER BROADWAY
February 13, 2008Unfortunately, most of NYC’s beautiful buildings date to between 1850 and 1940, the castiron, Beaux Arts and Art Deco-Art Moderne periods. Thereafter, minimalism took hold with the International Style’s glass boxes, which have become the rage now in tall residential towers. Ironically I’ve always loved Frank Lloyd Wright’s streamlined designs that looked toward the mid-century [...]
Categorized in: Forgotten Slices Tagged with: Broadway Manhattan Noho Soho
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LULLABY of BROADWAY. Long Island Rail Road replaces 1913 station
September 7, 2007The Long Island Rail Road has been slowly doing restoration work on stations along the Port Washington branch, which runs a couple of blocks from your webmaster’s home in Little Neck. Work began in 1995 at Woodside, and since then some stations such as Auburndale have been completely replaced, while otehrs, like Bayside and Murray Hill, underwent [...]
Categorized in: Forgotten Slices Subways & Trains Tagged with: Broadway Long Island Rail Road