Chelsea

In about 1990, a lamppost design that remains unique in NYC was installed along West 14th Street between University Place and 9th Avenue. The design is among the simplest found…

The hulking, fortress-like brick Terminal Warehouse at 11th Avenue and West 28th Street was constructed in 1890 with a design known as American Round Arch by architect George Mallory on land…

It had been awhile since I had taken a walk with the camera. For me, “awhile” means a week or more, so I was itching to get back into action…

I’ve only been in the Peter McManus Cafe, at 7th Avenue and W. 19th, once — in 1993, I had just gotten out of class at the School of Visual…

One of my favorite apartment complexes in NYC, London Terrace, takes up the entire block between West 23rd, West 24th, 9th and 10th Avenues — one of the few developments…

109 West 17th Street is a handsome brick building just west of 6th Avenue, just south of Ladies’ Mile and its grand department stores, or at least the buildings that…

In 2014 the last trace of the Albert Merrill School vanished as this ad on West 29th Street near 8th Avenue was painted over. The school promised training in computer…

New Yorkers of a Certain Age will remember the elevated West Side Highway — constructed on pillars over West Street and 12th Avenue in the 1930s, it connected downtown Manhattan…

I have worked on and off in the Chelsea area for years, first at a typesetter called ANY Phototype (1988-1991), then at Macy’s as a copywriter (2000-2004) and here I…

photo: Matthew X. Kiernan At 22nd and 6th in Chelsea is the former Ehrich Brothers Emporium, constructed in 1889, and currently home to a Burlington Coat Factory on the ground…

Just outside the turnstiles in the concourse of the 14th Street station on the IND 8th Avenue line (A, C, E trains) there’s a handsomely lettered sign in the black…

This painted ad in exquisitely serifed lettering appears high over West 30th Street near 10th Avenue, heading east, in view of the new High Line Park. The founder was Russian…