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…
Harlem
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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The Lenox Terminal/148th Street Station is among Manhattan’s most unusual subway stations. It’s a true terminal, as it’s the northern end of the #3 line. –It’s the only Manhattan station…
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Chisum Place is a one-block street running between West 141st and West 142nd streets just west of 5th Avenue in Harlem. It was constructed in the late 1950s between the…
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Continued from Part 1 Washington and Madison Squares. The King of All Buildings. St. Patrick’s Cathedral. Tiffany & Co. The east end of Central Park. The Plaza Hotel. The Metropolitan…
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Washington and Madison Squares. The King of All Buildings. St. Patrick’s Cathedral. Tiffany & Co. The east end of Central Park. The Plaza Hotel. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. The…
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I did not include the 110th Street station at Central Park North, serving #2 and #3 trains, on my Original 28 subway survey of a few years ago — because…
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There are still some parts of Manhattan I haven’t been in with regularity since I began photographing this website in 1998, and the area in the West 140s from St.…
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Gary Fonville made quite a find on West 145th at Frederick Douglass Boulevard (8th Avenue) as an ad for for the former Jack Sobel pawnshop (“loan office”) around the corner…