“MOVIE Mike” Olshan, who has been with me on a number of Forgotten New York tours, sent me this detail at #315 Park Avenue South, at the southeast corner of…
Madison Square
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It’s time for another entry in FNY’s Cross Streets of NYC series… I’ve done them piecemeal in the past, but I’ve already posted 20th Street, 22nd Street, 17th Street, 10th Street, 6th Street and…
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Before the Great Infection, I spent a number of Saturdays (and some Sundays too) crisscrossing Manhattan via its numbered streets. Over the years, I’ve done this quite a few times…
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The William H. Seward monument in Madison Square at the corner of 5th Avenue and East 23rd Street has been a meeting place for a number of Forgotten NY tours…
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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…
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I got this image on an absolute gem of a day in 2000, on the SW corner of 5th Avenue and 23rd Street, opposite Madison Square. It shows a classic…
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This gilded, ornate street clock is perhaps the most magnificent still existing in New York City. It was installed in 1909, at the same time 200 5th Avenue, in front of…
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In early February I was tired of the routine and desired a rove. It occurred to me I hadn’t had one of my favorite treats lately, one of the burritos…
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In August and September 2013 I worked in the Madison Square area, and so got a daily look at the Flatiron Building, one of the first skyscrapers built with an…
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The Serbian Orthodox Cathedral Church of St. Sava was constructed on West 25th just west of Broadway as a northern branch of Trinity Church between 1850-1855 and is yet another…
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Doctor Thomas Addis Emmet was quite a man of letters in the late 19th and early 20th Century — a gynecologist by trade, he was a book collector and a…
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I don’t like the way I lined up this shot, so I’ll have to improve on it the next time I’m in the vicinity, but now more than ever is…