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The Upper East Side along Lexington, 2nd and 3rd Avenues is still a “real” NYC neighborhood, meaning it hasn’t been Starbucked and HomeDepoted into bland equilibrium; there are still businesses that have been around for decades, working on centuries, and they still maintain the same accoutrements they always had. Until Starbucks buys the joint. Pharmacist J. [...]
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Your webmaster never runs out of ForgottenMaterial. That’s how vast New York City is. Unfortunately, lately the bulldozers seem to be knocking down things faster than Forgotten New York can chronicle any of their historic or unusual aspects. Ideally, I’d have unlimited time to gad about town with a camera, but I am at a [...]
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