It appears as if 121 Charles, at the corner of Greenwich, has been here forever but it is actually a 1967 interloper. It is an 1809 (?) farmhouse moved here…
Greenwich Village
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In the complicated Greenwich Village street layout, Jones Street, along with Cornelia, is a one-block street between West 4th and Bleecker west of 6th Avenue. It was named for Dr.…
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THE late 1960s and early 1970s were, without a doubt, an era when Fun City was descending into madness and it was thought that NYC was an ungovernable city (in…
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A short lane called Weehawken Street runs between Christopher and West 10th Streets just east of West Street and stands on what, in the colonial era, was on the grounds…
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JAMES J. Walker Park, today facing Hudson Street between St. Lukes Place and West Houston Street, was once an uptown branch of Trinity Cemetery, established in 1801 as a churchyard…
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I have something of a fascination for St. Luke’s Place in Greenwich Village, as it has a unique west to east street numbering scheme and is one of the few…
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CASUAL walkers around Greenwich Village will probably come across fractional addresses, such as 548 1/2 (I know there’s a way to access the one-half fraction on my keyboard, but I…
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THIS handsome, 7-story, large, red-brick building at 320 West 12th Street on the southwest corner at Hudson Street has gone by many names during its century-plus existence. Currently, it’s a luxury condominium…
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BEFORE 1928 6th Avenue went only as far south as Minetta and Carmine Streets in the center of Greenwich Village, and was mostly covered by an elevated train north of…
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DESIRING a rather quick walk that would nonetheless allow me to get my air of a weekend — as a work from homer, I am chained to my computer during…
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The following is an expanded version of my SpliceToday piece from February 9th, 2022 with additional text and photos. WAY back in early 2009, when I and the world were…
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I just discovered an incredible photo collection of street scenes in New York City from a few years either side of 1900 from a collection made available from the New-York…