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Except for a few wholesalers on Little West 12th between West and Washington Streets, the Meatpacking District, now the home of fashion retail and super-expensive apartment houses, has pretty much expunged all traces of its old meat wholesalers and slaughterhouses. Except… … for this remaining sign at 426 West 13th, which may or may not [...]
Categorized in: One Shots Signs Tagged with: Manhattan Meatpacking
Despite the rigors of over a century’s worth of wind, rain and storms, the painted sign identifying Middendorf & Rohrs Grocers is still identifiable at #1 Little West 12th Street. The building has an oddly slanted shape as it fronts on both Gansevoort and Little West 12th, which intersect here. There also seems to be [...]
Categorized in: Ads One Shots Tagged with: Manhattan Meatpacking
Categorized in: Neighborhoods Street Scenes Tagged with: 9th Avenue Manhattan Meatpacking
In “Mellow Yellow” Donovan is actually saying he’s just mad about Frontine, but in 1960s transistor radio-squawk that was always rendered Fourteen, and I thought he liked teenagers, which wouldn’t have surprised me. Your webmaster has always been mad about 14th– East and West 14th, the first numbered street to go coast to coast — [...]
Categorized in: Roads Street Scenes Walks Tagged with: Manhattan Meatpacking Union Square
Comes the word this week (May 4, 2009) that one more butcher is leaving the Meatpacking District… as the NY Post ran it, according to Pat LaFrieda, ”A lot of people would like to see us out of here. We don’t fit no more.” Most of the butchers have moved to more welcoming territory in New Jersey and upstate [...]
Categorized in: Forgotten Slices Neighborhoods Tagged with: Manhattan Meatpacking
I did a story on FNY the other day about the changes befalling Manhattan’s largest Belgian-blocked surface, the huge plaza where Greenwich, Gansevoort, Little West 12th Streets and 9th Avenue all meet — a changing of the guard, so to speak, of Manhattan street patterns — and, as is my wont I touched upon the fate [...]
Categorized in: Forgotten Slices Street Lamps Tagged with: Manhattan Meatpacking
Two separate Manhattan street grid systems come together at a 4-street intersection in the West Village, where Greenwich Street, Gansevoort Street, Little West 12th Street and 9th Avenue all meet. Here, Greenwich Street finishes a northbound run from Battery Place and Ninth Avenue begins a climb up the West Side all the way to Cathedral [...]
Categorized in: Forgotten Slices Tagged with: Manhattan Meatpacking
Bear with your webmaster for one night, as I inquire about something that many will find ultra-esoteric even for the usual Forgotten fare. I’m a little pressed for time, since I’ve been perusing, most of the evening, Greg Young and Tom Meyers’ impressive new Bowery Boys site, in business since July 2007, tackling subjects like the origin of [...]
Categorized in: Forgotten Slices Tagged with: Manhattan Meatpacking
So far September 2007 had proven much cooler than October 2007, which had seen July-like temperatures, at least until the 7th. September was perfect for a breezy walk along West Street from the Chelsea Piers sports complex south to Canal, revisiting places I had not seen for a few years. As it turns out I [...]
Categorized in: Roads Street Scenes Walks Tagged with: Greenwich Village Manhattan Meatpacking
Of course, the far west end of 14th Street isn’t dead; it’s arguably more active than it ever was, with celebrity-bait restaurants, clubs and fashion boutiques. However, with the impending closure of Western Beef on 14th Street, one of the last active links to the neighborhood’s 100 years as a slaughterhouse and meat wholesale center [...]
Categorized in: Neighborhoods Tagged with: High Line Manhattan Meatpacking
The streets of New York City used to be paved with bricks. The term ‘cobblestones’ refers to uneven stones of varying shapes and sizes. This style of paving went out of style nearly a century and a half ago, to be replaced by even stones with a smoother finish known as “Belgian blocks.” They were [...]
Categorized in: Cobblestones Tagged with: Bay Ridge Brooklyn Manhattan Meatpacking Queens Red Hook Ridgewood
