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…
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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…
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It’s not politically correct to like the High Line Park on the west side of Manhattan, which now runs from West 34th Street between 11th and 12th Avenues all the…
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CONTINUED FROM PART 2 I have an affinity for subways, trains and railroads… not at the “foamer” level, but I have enough knowledge to recognize model numbers on most NYC,…
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In a relatively sparsely-attended ForgottenTour, 15 ForgottenFans gathered at the William Seward statue in Madison Square and headed west into the heart of Chelsea. In the mid-18th Century, Captain Thomas…
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Here’s one of the more innovative uses of an abandoned fire alarm box I’ve seen, at 10th Avenue and West 21st at Guardian Angel Church in Chelsea. As a rule,…
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It’s unusual to see small brick and frame buildings facing major north-south avenues in Manhattan but there’s a group of them here in Chelsea on the west side of 9th…
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In a super-rare occurrence, a Chelsea business has rid itself of a newer sign in favor of an older one that had been hidden for years. This laundromat at 9th…
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An ancient fire alarm enjoys forced retirement on 8th Avenue and West 29th Street in Chelsea. How ancient? Slope-roofed alarms like this one were only produced in 1912 and 1913.…
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West 30th in Chelsea. Otherwise sophisticated exterior building lamps somehow look cheapened and tawdry with those curlycue long-lasting fluorescents in them. Let’s go back to the original bulb-shaped bulb with…
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I’ve passed by this building hundreds of times, as millions have, and plenty of times caught sight of the name “John Q Aymar” on the 8th Avenue side. I got…
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Following a tip about ‘ugly, futurisic’ lampposts appearing on the 9th Avenue and West 14th Street area, I found instead on West 15th a small clutch of the new davit-style…