Continued from Part 2 IT’S been two decades since I first walked 6th Avenue for FNY, and things have changed along the avenue in the center of Manhattan (in “The Ferrari in…
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IT’S been two decades since I first walked 6th Avenue for FNY, and things have changed along the avenue in the center of Manhattan (in “The Ferrari in the Bedroom,”…
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WANT to check out some NYC history but don’t want to ferret it out in a museum? Ride the subway instead. This plaque, designed by Jay Van Everen and located…
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St. Andrew’s Church was consecrated here on Duane Street behind the Municipal Building in 1939, replacing an earlier church named Carroll Hall built in 1842. Just before the Civil War…
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On a visit to see the remodeled Penn Station LIRR corridor in February 2023, I was meandering around the area when this tall brick building on West 34th just off…
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BOWNE & Co. Stationers at 211 Water Street is a working job print shop as well as a department of the South Street Seaport Museum. It was one of the…
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Ed. note: I haven’t been to the Statue of Liberty since a Cub Scout trip in 1965, and I remember exactly nothing, but Sergey has been there a bit more…
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HERE’S an ancient painted ad that has been there for many years and went unnoticed by me until was walking east on West 33rd Street and noticed it via an…
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No, the beloved deli “appetizing” institution, Russ & Daughters, is hardly “forgotten,” but this is also a signage and infrastructure blog, so I thought I’d point out something I found…
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By SERGEY KADINSKYForgotten New York correspondent At the corner of Essex and Delancey Streets is a glass tower with signs for The Market Line, an underground food and retail complex…
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A public space in front of 1411 Broadway at West 39th commemorates Golda Meir (1898-1978), the prime minister of Israel from 1971-1974. The prime minister was born in Kiev (now spelled…
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SINCE Brooklyn and Manhattan do not share a land border, with the East River providing the undefended separation between the two boroughs, getting street scenes of the two boroughs in…