WHILE wandering around in lower Manhattan in 2018, I spotted a rather forbidding-looking building at #102-104 Greenwich, just north of Rector (and one of my favorite lunch joints, George’s Restaurant).…
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A sidewalk sign featuring metallic lettering for Hercules Seating can still be found above #25 Park Place downtown, just east of Church Street. As Ephemeral NY points out, the building…
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In November 2020 I was in the mood for a compact voyage of discovery on a crisp fall day and I recognized I had not yet walked the entire length…
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Another entry in FNY’s deck-clearing exercise. I took these photos in mid-July 2017, when a front had passed and the dead dog heat and humidity had lifted just a bit.…
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From the Bob Mulero archives comes this photo of the Excelsior Power Company Building, 33 Gold Street between Fulton and John Streets, where Gold meets the tiny Edens Alley. It…
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When an awning sign was removed at 86-1/2 Nassau Street between Fulton and John Streets, a neon sign for Loft’s Candies was revealed. The first Loft’s candy store was opened…
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In May 2016 I decided to walk up Pearl Street’s entire length from Battery Park to Tribeca. It’s an oddly positioned street, as far as downtown goes, first running northeast,…
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By Sean Colby and Kevin Walsh Though the downtown area has lost an entire entertainment district (Scollay Square) in the past 50 years, and a raft of byways and mazes…
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There is a short run of mid-size buildings on Broadway between Cortlandt and Dey Streets downtown — some of them have been around for nearly 150 years despite all the…
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One of the most beloved artifacts in downtown San Francisco is at Market Street where it meets Kearny and Third Streets, where the city’s oldest public monument, Lotta’s Fountain, can…
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I had just gotten off the train at Jay/Metrotech and was stumbling toward the starting point of my Downtown to Crown Heights epic when I spotted a chalkboard on the…
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Around 2000, the Department of Transportation installed distinctive black and white signs developed by the Alliance for Downtown Manhattan that featured easy-to-read street names, house numbers found on the block…