FOR the first time since 2022, I have a “deep bench” in sports terms, a hefty and healthy backlog of photos from a number of different walks, which is surprising given the amount of rain, wind and otherwise lousy weather from this excuse for a winter we have had. As you know, a combination of maladies sidelined me for over a year between September 2022 and November 2023, but, fingers crossed, I’m back in action and actually looking a doing my first “live tour” since November 2019. I am five years older and we shall see what toll the years have wrought.
I recently walked 37th Street from west to east as part of the FNY Crosstown series. Since I don’t have much research available today, as a preview, here’s a stoop at 347 West 37th Street near 9th Avenue with a pair of handsome lighthouse-shaped lamps. There is a tradition that private mayoral residences would have a pair of lamps by the steps outside the entrance, and I can think of two that fit the bill, on St. Luke’s Place (Walker) and Gramercy Park west (Harper). However, I don’t know how the tradition got started, or even if it’s a tradition at all; the two I mentioned may merely be coincidental. Do you know? Comments are open.
It turns out that the place has a somewhat infamous past. Tom Miller, the Daytonian in Manhattan, has the history.
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3/20/24