On one of the few sunny days in September 2018 I did a short walk up Charles Street in the West Village (the fruits of which will be on a…
Greenwich Village
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The original Greenwich Village was a Canarsee Indian fishing village called Seppanikan (some accounts spell it Sapokanican), centered around a stream they called Manetta, meaning ‘devil water’. Later it became…
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One of the hallmarks of Greenwich Village is that it is filled with odd streets angles and intersections as well as a number of named alleys, Patchin Place, Grove Court,…
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While NYC’s last remaining gaslight post (now equipped with an electric bulb) in Patchen Place across the street is perhaps better known, this modified (missing ladder rest) Type 1 Bishop…
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Continued from Part 2 Strangely enough, though I have touched on Greenwich Street often (it runs from Battery Park up the West Side all the way through Tribeca and Greenwich…
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Sorry about the blurry image — my Panasonic Lumix does not do well in subway tunnels, or I don’t know the setting to make it work (my IPhone actually does better…
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It had been awhile since I had taken a walk with the camera. For me, “awhile” means a week or more, so I was itching to get back into action…
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I had always been intrigued by the Tony Dapolito Recreation Center, which stands guard at the cusp of two worlds on 7th Avenue South and Clarkson Street. It is here…
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Fire Patrol #2, on #84 West 3rd between Thompson and Sullivan, looks a great deal like New York City firehouses built in the early 20th Century and has embellishments like…
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New York City streets that run in old waterway courses are relatively few and far between. The most famous is Canal Street, which was built in the early 1800s on…
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When I last saw them a few years ago, this pair of massive Art Deco concrete wings were sitting behind a fence near Pier 54 on the Hudson River, where…
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Here’s a trio of well-preserved, 19.5 feet wide Federal style townhouses on the west side of MacDougal Street north of West 3rd and adjacent to the Provincetown Playhouse. This part…