Manhattan

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, 21st Street, 22nd Street, 17th Street, 10th Street, 6th Street, 18th Street, 25th…

The McKim, Mead and White architectural firm designed the enormous James Farley post office, which opened in 1913, as a companion to Pennsylvania Station, just across 8th Avenue. A monumental…

As I’ve documented quite a bit on FNY, I worked in the Turtle Bay area in NYC from 1982-1988 and again, briefly, in 2018, at 216 East 45th Street. However,…

I noticed that this FNY post from January 2011 hadn’t been brought over when the site was redesigned in early 2019, so I’ll repost it here… I was lurching and…

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)…

I have a number of photos of the old World Trade Center, which began construction in 1970 and was destroyed by terrorists on September 11, 2001. To this point, though,…

I write this the day I turn 63. I feel terrific! Except some mornings, when my back is sore and only walking around will ease it. An affliction tailor-made for…

Eons ago, in the summer of 2006, I was scouting the West Village for old buildings, hidden parks, strange infrastructure: you know, the Forgotten New York usual — when I…

The northeast corner of 3rd Avenue and East 13th is historic in two ways: a pear tree planted by Peter Stuyvesant himself stood here in what was originally his farm…

I was stumbling around the East Village a couple of years ago when I happened on the Pageant Print Shop at #69 East 4th Street between the Bowery and 2nd…

Bronxites of a certain age who paid attention in their high school history classes might think that Webster Avenue was named for the famed Massachusetts Congressman and orator Daniel Webster. However,…

At a confluence of roads (West 124th Street, Manhattan and St. Nicholas Avenues, and Hancock Place) we find a bust of Winfield Scott Hancock by James Wilson Alexander McDonald, dedicated in…