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The Chelsea and Clinton neighborhoods on the west side of Manhattan are relatively easy to get to from lively Little Neck — the train ride to Manhattan is 22 minutes and Penn Station is smack on the edge of each area, both of which run from 7th Avenue to the Hudson River and (generously) from [...]
Categorized in: Neighborhoods Tagged with: diners Manhattan neon
If there is a glaring weakness in the FNY canon it’s upper Manhattan. For whatever reason I have not spent enough time north of Grand Army Plaza or Columbus Circle. To rectify things somewhat, I meandered up Amsterdam Avenue from Verdi Square to Cathedral Parkway in August 2010 and then wavered down 116th Street from [...]
Categorized in: Street Scenes Tagged with: Amsterdam Avenue banks Manhattan neon
The Golden Age of NYC Neon has come and gone. Believe it or not, the noble gas (since it combines with other elements only reluctantly, in lab conditions) is fairly rare on Earth, being available only in trace form in the atmosphere. If gathered in sufficient quantity it is a red-orange tangerine color. Most commercial [...]
A slice of history form the 1940s was revealed on 8th Avenue and 43rd Street in Hell’s Kitchen in late November when the old facade of the Dixon Cafeteria was revealed. A jeans store had occupied this space previously, and it was being converted to the new 8th Avenue Pavilion. As David Dunlap put it [...]
New York has a marvelous collection of neon signs, and while we’ve heretofore collected scads of them on previous Signs pages we’ve never previously done a Neon Nights page, when the signs are doing what they were born to do. Your webmaster’s Canon Powershot S1 IS is ill-equipped for night photography. That’s why you call [...]
