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Always have a camera. Lesson learned at Broadway and West 147th in Hamilton Heights, where the old Bunny Theater has been forver stripped of its rabbits. The Bunny Theatre at Broadway and West 147th Street recollected early 20th Century comic actor and theatre impresario John Bunny (1863-1915). Bunny appeared in over 100 silents in a [...]
Categorized in: One Shots Tagged with: Hamilton Heights Manhattan
I thought I’d seen them all. The remaining Bishop Crooks from NYC’s golden era of castiron posts, 1915-1950, of course. Only about 12-25 of them remain — Bishop Crooks, Corvingtons, and Twinlamps from the period. Most of them were gradually purged away beginning in 1950, when the first aluminum octagonal posts were erected, followed by [...]
Categorized in: Street Lamps Tagged with: Hamilton Heights Manhattan
In July 2012, I was wandering around Hamilton Heights on an overcast and overhumid afternoon in quest of Alexander Hamilton‘s house, built in 1802, that he called the Grange in honor of his family’s ancestral house in Scotland. The word grange has its roots in the medieval Latin word for grain, granica, and has been [...]
Categorized in: Street Scenes Tagged with: Hamilton Heights Manhattan
