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MANY of New York’s famous artists were born elsewhere and came to this city because it offers the biggest audience and market for creative expression. Keith Haring moved from Pennsylvania…
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BACK in June I took a walk in Carroll Gardens and Gowanus; I may do a post on the walk, or release the photos in dribs and drabs, depending on…
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FOLLOWING up on John Jay Park, 33 blocks to the north on the East River shoreline is another park named after a Founding Father, carved out of the street grid…
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YOU don’t see a lot of lengthy inscriptions in Dutch in NYC. There are street names, or perhaps slogans on borough flags (Brooklyn’s is “Eendracht maakt macht,” which translates to…
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MANHATTAN boasts a Manhattan Avenue on the Upper West Side, which runs from West 100th Street one block west of Central Park West north past Morningside Park to West 124th…
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In contrast to the Upper West Side, which has a continuous waterfront park on the Hudson River stretching from 59th to 125th Streets, the shoreline of the Upper East Side…
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At the northwest corner of York Avenue and East 83rd Street is an unassuming 19th-century walkup with a realistic mural depicting a glockenspiel. Titled Glockenspiel, it honors the German community…
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No one is really celebrating it, but on the eve of the nation’s 249th anniversary, I’d like to mention another anniversary: the redrawing of the Brooklyn-Queens borderline separating present-day neighborhoods…
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Last week I posted an item about Stier Place in Ridgewood, whose highlight is the 1916 Ridgewood Democratic Club. Sergey mentioned he has some photos from the interior… INSIDE the…
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At the corner of 122nd Street and Third Avenue in East Harlem is a set of residential towers whose appearance stands out among its neighbors. The name, flags and murals…
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TOO often the decline in religious observance or demographic changes in neighborhoods have been documented here with churches and synagogues demolished in favor of uninspiring brick and glass residential towers.…
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ONE day after giving a Forgotten NY tour in Sunnyside and Astoria in which I pointed out the former Packard showroom/dealership on Northern Boulevard and 46th Street, some stuff fell…