I don’t have too much to say about this 5-story walkup building at #105 Broad Street, corner of Water, in the Financial District except to say it’s unusual for the…
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MAIDEN Lane is one of the oldest routes in Manhattan, following a curved path from Broadway at Cortlandt Street east to South Street. On a ferry trip from Hunters Point…
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On a sunny late July 2022 Sunday, I decided to check out Trinity Churchyard and Broadway. I really had not spent any length of time there in a decade and…
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AFTER posting the item on #4 New York Plaza at Broad and Water Streets recently, I needed a quick Sunday feature because of time constraints. The day I shot that…
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I wonder if a cab driver, if asked to go to “New York Plaza.” would know where to take you. It’s an important route…no street sign has ever carried its…
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I got the street sign seen here on Christmas 2020 at a flea market in what had seemingly forever been an empty lot at 6th Avenue and West 28th Street…
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Hugh L. Carey (1919-2011) was the formidably sideburned NY State Governor from 1975 to 1982; before that, the World War II veteran served as a US Representative from NY State…
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Fraunces Tavern, at Pearl and Broad streets, is one of Downtown’s most popular tourist attractions and so it’s hardly “forgotten.” It’s a museum and somewhat pricey restaurant combined into one.…
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I recently took a walk on the east-west streets in lower Manhattan looking for oddities and anachronisms. There aren’t many 19th-century buildings surviving on John Street in lower Manhattan, but…
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The big brass bull at Bowling Green is visited daily by hordes of out of town tourists. (His counterpoint, “Fearless Girl,” has been moved over to the New York Stock…
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I have been walking quite bit in the warrens of lower Manhattan lately, noticing what others ignore. I revisited Nassau Street in SpliceToday a short time ago, and took care…
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Just north of Brooklyn Bridge, Pearl Street begins a turn to the northwest and acted, at the time, as a divider between the street pattern of lower Manhattan and the…