LIVING FOR THE CITY, PART 1 City Hall Park New York’s present City Hall was completed in 1811 and is the third City Hall overall. Though most of the…
City Hall
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EVEN though I have chronicled NYC’s lost, magnificent City Hall Station a number of times in Forgotten NY I had only visited once before, in a 1998 Transit Museum tour that…
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EVEN though ancient subway car tours are kind of pricey at $20-$25 a trip (for Transit Museum members) I try to make at least a couple of tours a year. The…
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FIVE POINTS / CIVIC CENTER WEST Continued from Part 1 Five Points, (the approximate location of which is circled in grey) which had long been wiped out by the time…
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This 1946 Hagstrom of the Wall Street area (boxed in gray) of Manhattan shows a large number of streets that have disappeared over the decades, many of which made it…
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Located under City Hall Park is the world’s most beautiful former subway station. It is located at the south edge of the loop that turns Lexington Avenue IRT locals (#6) around…