One of Manhattan’s oldest streets was named very early on, in the 1660s, and commemorates the paddle-tailed, dam-building, aquatic rodent whose pelts made up the chief avenue of commerce between…
Financial District
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120 Broadway, the Equitable Building, is one of those rare NYC buildings that occupy an entire block, between Broadway and Nasssau, Pine and Cedar Streets. It was designed by architect…
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There’s been a lot of “ink” and cyberink spilled lately regarding the new Fulton Transit Center, which is basically a new headhouse with rearranged passageways that links the BMT, IND…
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Trinity Church Cemetery, at Broadway and Wall Street, is one of Manhattan’s oldest cemeteries. (The oldest may be the First Shearith Jewish Cemetery on St. James Place just south of…
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48 Wall Street is a 1928 building designed by Benjamin Wistar Morris, crowned with a Corinthian temple and a bronze eagle (invisible from Wall Street). The central banking room, seen…
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William Beckwith‘s sculpture of the head of Moby-Dick author Herman Melville can be chanced upon at 17 Pearl Street, between State and Whitehall, which is across the way from #6…
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The A. Blank Company made office furniture, was established in 1899, and up until a couple of years ago, its magnificent old neon sign was still attached to a building…
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“Liberty” is one of the few words you can type using 4 consecutive letters on a QWERTY keyboard. After getting that out of the way, you’ll pardon me this week…
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Bowling Green Park, at the foot of Broadway where it meets Battery Place, is home to NYC’s oldest fence (it’s the same one built in the 1700s; gilded crowns were…
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They once proliferated on NYC streets by the thousands: making their debut around 1910, they lit major avenues and boulevards, and any street that was too wide for their predecessors,…
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I think humanity is alone in the universe, which for me doesn’t cause anomie, just disappointment. At age 55 I already feel cheated that half of things are over with,…
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French sculptor Jean Dubuffet‘s 25-ton sculpture Group of Four Trees is featured in Chase Manhattan Plaza, between Pine, Liberty, Nassau, and William Streets, consists of fiberglass, aluminum and steel fabricated near…