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As part of its centennial celebrations in early 2013, Grand Central Terminal, at East 42nd Street between Vanderbilt and Lexington Avenues, has restored a 1919 lamppost that was taken out of service in 1985… The Park Avenue Viaduct, seen here at its southern end at East 40th Street during the August 2010 Summer Streets [...]
Categorized in: Forgotten Slices Street Lamps Tagged with: Grand Central Manhattan
In the mid-20th Century, just when NYC was replacing its ornate cast iron and wrought iron posts with more sedate aluminum octagonal-shaped lampposts, Park Avenue got a set of posts all its own with a unique streamlined design featuring then-new greenish-white mercury lamps. They didn’t last too long, however, and by the mid-1960s they had [...]
Categorized in: One Shots Street Lamps Tagged with: Grand Central Manhattan
Motorists know all about the Park Avenue Tunnel, which runs beneath the avenue between 33rd and 40th Streets, but few pedestrians ever see it. It was built in 1834 as an open cut for the New York & Harlem Railroad (NY&H) which ran both steam engines and horsecars, and the cut was bridged over in [...]
Categorized in: One Shots Tagged with: Grand Central Manhattan Murray Hill
Hello ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, welcome to Forgotten New York Walks, a new FNY category and the first since FNY Slices was instituted in July 2007. Walks will feature what the title indicates, a walk from one neighborhood to the other — especially when the two neighborhoods are completely disparate. In 2007 I [...]
Categorized in: Neighborhoods Tagged with: Astoria Grand Central Manhattan Queens Roosevelt Island
Cherubs have always (for me at least) been some of the more bizarre touchstones in the Christian tradition. Sometimes they are depicted as full-bodied babies with wings. Other times, they are shown as babies’ heads with wings. Now, when you think about it, that’s a very bizarre image. And I say that knowing that the book [...]
Categorized in: Forgotten Slices Tagged with: Grand Central Manhattan
