The MTA has recently been on a renovation kick, giving selected stations a refreshed look, with the addition of illuminated maps, service alteration boards (important these days, since there’s always…
Chelsea
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A full 90 years after a painted ad for his clothing firm appeared high above 151-163 W. 26th St off 7th Avenue, Solomon Blogg is appearing on … a blog.…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…