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When the Rouse Company remade the South Street Seaport area between 1981-1983, rehabilitating buildings, adding new buildings, and opening the tourist-friendly Pier 17 (where I still get tuna and pasta for lunch every so often) it attempted to add authenticity to the streets of the Seaport by adding a number of lampposts, unique to NYC, [...]
Categorized in: Forgotten Slices Street Lamps Tagged with: Mnahattan Seaport
This is one of Avenue of the Americas’ dwindling supply of lamppost medallions, installed around 1960 to honor the involvement of the USA in the Organization of American States, which includes most of the countries in North, Central and South America. Though a lamppost replacement initiative around 1992 claimed most of them, they can still [...]
Categorized in: One Shots Signs Tagged with: Greenwich Village Mnahattan
Tompkins Square Park, a green oasis in the East Village between East 7th and East 10th Streets and Avenues A and B, has always been an open space in this part of the city. It had previously been swamps and marshland until NYC acquired it in 1835 and set about landscaping it and planting shade trees [...]
Categorized in: Forgotten Slices Tagged with: East Village Mnahattan Tompkins Square
