Harlem

I have written about stoplights before, the red, green and sometimes yellow type, especially former mounting designs whose examples I found around town in the 1990s when I began compiling…

Walk east a couple of blocks on East 121st from Mount Morris Park — between Lexington and 3rd Avenue — and you will find a majestic, Gothic and Romanesque building…

Staggering around Harlem on a recent Saturday, I gravitated to 3rd Avenue, which I hadn’t invaded recently. Mindful of the fact that 3rd Avenue had an elevated train rumbling over…

I was riffling through Municipal Archives 1940 Manhattan photos on 3rd Avenue recently (I do it so you don’t have to) when I happened upon a photo of this Gristede’s…

The Works Progress Administration Guide to NYC is a dense, 700-page volume with tightly-spaced type in a small but readable Garamond font, with a generous use of maps, art and…

I took a quick stroll east on 125th Street, crossing the 3rd Avenue Bridge into Mott Haven, west across the Madison Avenue Bridge back into Harlem again. Got some air…

I had an interregnum of work this past spring (2018), the better part of two months for a financial printer in Midtown. The hours were overnights from 12 to 8,…

Duke Ellington Circle, 5th Avenue and 110th Street at the northeast end of Central Park, features these last surviving examples of leaf-scrolled “Corvingtons” ( coined the name “Leafies” for them) that…

Electrical substations perform a number of tasks including transforming voltage from high to low or vice versa, or generate, transmit or distribute electrical voltage as needed. There are dozens such…

6th Avenue runs up the center of Manhattan Island; in his compilation Ferrari in the Bedroom, humorist Jean Shepherd called it “the armpit of Manhattan.” It was originally laid out in…

This week I’ve been posting 35MM photos I recently found while rummaging through my collection. I found about 70 images of things that are no longer there, or have been…

By SERGEY KADINSKY Forgotten NY correspondent One of the most unusual uptown addresses is 35 West 134th Street. Finding this address is not easy as it is located on a…