Manhattan

In the 1980s, NYC’s King of Lampposts Bob Mulero acquired this shot of a rather forlorn Twin version of the GE Whiteway at a lot on 12th Avenue (in Hells…

WAY back in the Easy 80s, NYC’s King of Lampposts, Bob Mulero, came across this hybrid gem on a street corner in Harlem. It appears that the top half of…

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…

FORGOTTEN NY fan Kyle Supley found this quite faded ad for Titanic the Musical in a Park Fast lot at #305 West 44th, west of 8th Avenue. Of course I…

BESET by nagging maladies and injuries…some of which are still ongoing (the lower back is a frequent target for the pain gods) …I was in the mood for a somewhat…

THE original name of St. Augustine’s Episcopal Chapel at #290 Henry near Jackson Street on the Lower East Side was All Saints Free Church, which is still carved over the…

Continued from Part 1 In the late winters and springs of 2021-2022 I found I was walking through Soho and its bordering neighborhoods, Chinatown and the Lower East Side. Already,…

I had a rare foray on the #6 line running south on Lafayette Street recently and got out at Spring Street to see how one of my favorite stations is…

ALAS, I have never been able to get a decent photo of the two vintage Twinlamps that light the plaza in front of the NYC City Hall entrance; that’s because…

THE former West Washington Market was enclosed in ten two-story-tall red brick and terra cotta buildings, completed in 1889, set on four streets and one avenue. In 1939, the WPA…

In the late winters and springs of 2022 I found I was walking through Soho and its bordering neighborhoods, Chinatown and the Lower East Side. Already, I have assembled pages…

WHAT could be one of the two last gaslight posts on public Manhattan streets can be found here, at Broadway and West 211th Street. The other one is on Patchin…