THIS forlorn subway entrance, with its rolldown aluminum gate (that I have never seen open) is actually all that remains of the old Pennsylvania Hotel, built in 1919, closed in…
Manhattan
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THE Dyckman Street station on the #1 train, Dyckman Street and Nagle Avenue, is among my favorites, because it emerges from a tunnel into the light, like Brooklyn’s Parkside Avenue station and…
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SEEN here on a Forgotten NY tour in 2018, The Tompkins Square Temperance Monument, erected in 1891, was a gift from a San Francisco dentist and temperance activist, Henry Cogswell (1820-1900).…
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I am, or was, frequently on the block of East 18th between Broadway and Park Avenue South, just north of Union Square. Though I haven’t been in lately, I’ve been…
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DON’T let the glassy exterior of the building on the NE corner of Lexington Avenue and East 45th fool you…this building, now home to Midtown Comics on the second floor,…
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FOR some reason, I failed to include this in the recent online zoom chat I gave regarding mosaic subway art. I’m unsure whether to post the rest in Forgotten NY,…
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I didn’t realize it at the time, since the ground floor had been corrupted and “modernized” while I was working there, but 150 5th Avenue at W. 20th Street is…
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YOGI Berra said it best, as he often did: “You can observe a lot by looking.” I must have used that quote in FNY before, but not lately. I was…
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WHILE looking around for a relatively short walk recently I settled on MacDougal Street, which many think of as the commercial north-south spine of Greenwich Village. Well, I thought it…
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TUCKED away on St. Mark’s Place in the East Village is a reminder that it used to be NYC’s foremost German neighborhood. The German-American Shooting Society Clubhouse (Deutsch-Amerikanische Schuetzen Gesselschaft),…
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WHILE traipsing the northern leg of the High Line recently I noticed something interesting about the green Corvington streetlamps along the West Side Highway, officially called West Street here, but…
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THE Butterick Building at the NW corner of 6th Avenue and Spring was built in 1903, before 6th Avenue was built. Butterick is a sewing pattern company founded in 1863 by Ebenezer…