On the east side of Bellevue South Park between 1st and 2nd Avenues we find a short, two-block street called Mount Carmel Place. This street harks back to a Forgotten…
Kips Bay
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THERE’S good news and bad regarding the weird, 1940-era lampposts found on the north-south entrance and exit roads servicing the Queens-Midtown Tunnel on either side of 2nd Avenue between East…
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Programming note: I have decided to include the category banner at the top of each post, even though they introduce a moment of redundancy, since I like the design (mine)…
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The summer of 2020 has been among the hottest in years, rivaling the ones I recall in 1988 and 1999. Nevertheless I was itching for a Manhattan stroll, as I…
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In this photo from the 1940 Municipal Archives we’re looking east on East 23rd Street, at #304-310, which are on the right side of the picture. While a number of…
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The incredible Corinthian apartment tower, with its myriad bay windows looms behind St. Vartan’s Church at 2nd Avenue and East 34th Street. The Corinthian was constructed in 1987 by architect…
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With the Light Emitting Diode Revolution in full flower across town, a lamppost-loving webmaster wonders whether these Type G wall bracket beauties, of which a few dozen remain around town…
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The east end of East 31st Street between 2nd and 3rd Avenues is one of Manhattan’s rare tree-lined streets, consisting of brownstone and brick townhouses punctuated by the 1904 Church…
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Usually, when an ancient ad starts fading that’s bad news because its legibility is ruined. But I’ve found a sign at 117 East 24th Street, a couple of blocks east…
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I took a walk from Madison Square southeast to Kips Bay and then generally north to the East 34th Street ferry landing in mid- December 2014, before it started getting…
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It was a Saturday, the warmest day of the spring yet, and I had come to Manhattan’s east side to search for relics. The #7 train was running between Queens…
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By SERGEY KADINSKY Forgotten NY Correspondent A few years ago, FNY documented former parts of Avenue A that have since been demapped or renamed. I have an update for you… On February…