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Unlike 2008, which was mostly overcast with a threat of showers both days, Open House New York weekend 2009 in NYC was spectacular weatherwise, with partly cloudy Saturday morning giving way to full sun by midafternoon, with Sunday a carbon copy. Unfortunately the MTA did its best, as is its wont, to be the dog in [...]
Categorized in: Forgotten Slices Tagged with: East Village Manhattan Manhattan Bridge
Hart Crane never wrote poems about it, Sonny Rollins practiced sax on the Williamsburg, not the Manhattan, and Steve Brodie never jumped off of it. The Manhattan Bridge has always stood in the shadow of its storied brother to the south, the Brooklyn Bridge. Probably that’s partially because up until mid-2001, most New Yorkers crossed the Manhattan in a speeding car [...]
Categorized in: Street Scenes Tagged with: Brooklyn Manhattan Manhattan Bridge
There are still a few of them left and some are actually working. “Crescent moon” style luminaires, called “crescents” because of their shape, were in vogue from the mid-40s until they were replaced by mercury vapor lamps in the early 60s. The “crescent moons” were very flexible in that they could be used both on [...]
Categorized in: Street Lamps Tagged with: Bronx Brooklyn Eastchester Manhattan Bridge Midwood Van Cortlandt Park
