ENTRANCE and exit kiosks were constructed by the IRT, or Interborough Rapid Transit (today’s numbered subway lines) for its original 28 stations from City Hall north to 145th Street along…
Cooper Square
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UNMARKED on street maps and un-signed by the Department of Transportation, Stable Court is a crack of pavement between Two Cooper Square, an upscale highrise with a rooftop pool (a…
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A short section of East 9th Street between Broadway and Cooper Square is named for John Wanamaker (1838-1922), a Philadelphian who co-founded a men’s clothing store in 1861 and with it, the…
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By SERGEY KADINSKYForgotten New York correspondent THROUGHOUT this city there are examples of interagency cooperation as one public authority hands over its property to another. In the Bronx, the route…
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John Jacob Astor, né Ashdor, was the richest man in the United States for a time in the early 1800s. He was originally a dealer of musical instruments as a young…
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In August I went on a “ramble” from the Canal Street A/C/E subway up through SoHo, Greenwich Village, and the East Side, getting as far as East 59th where I…
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Pickings have been slim this winter for Forgotten New Yorking. I haven’t been able to get out much. Despite what I’m told was a monster flu season, with half the…
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Samuel Sullivan Cox appears as if he’s hailing a cab here at Cooper Square and Astor Place in 1924. Though Louise Lawson’s sculpture of Ohio Congressman Samuel Sullivan Cox has…
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On the first three Saturdays in August the Department of Transportation shuts down Lafayette Street, 4th Avenue, Park Avenue South, Park Avenue and part of West 72nd Street in theSummer Streets…
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Along with Williamsburg and the Times Square area over the past decade, Cooper Square, the junction of the Bowery, 3rd and 4th Avenues and Astor Place, is one of NYC’s key…
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Cooper Square (Astor Place at 3rd and 4th Avenues), was named for industrialist and inventor Peter Cooper (1791-1883), the developer of the first practical steam engine. He helped build America’s…
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Nestled in prosperous Murray Hill on East 36th Street between 3rd and Lexington is one of the few alleys of the midtown area. Sniffen Court was constructed between 1850 and…