THE dead of winter is a natural time to commune with the dead and in late January I was stumbling around in St. Paul’s Churchyard, which I’ve neglected over the…
City Hall Park
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Bridewell Prison was in what is now City Hall Park [at Broadway and Murray Streets]. It was designed by Theophilus Hardenbrook in 1775. The jail, poorhouse and another building known as…
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Here are scenes from ForgottenTour #63 at the City Hall Park area and Nassau Street, finishing at Broad and Wall Streets. All photos by Joe DeMarco and Bob Mulero. Descriptions…
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New York City has preserved more of the classic Bishop Crook lampposts than any other of the cast-iron designs. In fact, the city has been busy since the 1980s bringing…
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Once the mainstay of multilane boulevards in the pre-expressway era, cast-iron twinlamps once decorated highways like the Grand Concourse in the Bronx and Queens Boulevard and Horace Harding Boulevard in…