In March 2022, when FNY presented the baseball streets of Commack in Suffolk County, several streets in NYC also named for baseball players were pointed out to me. Frankly I…
Manhattan
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“In 1989, at the request of then-Mayor Ed Koch, formation of the 34th Street Partnership began, and in 1992 the Partnership was officially established as one of New York’s first…
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IT’S time for another entry in FNY’s Cross Streets of NYC series! I have been walking Manhattan’s numbered streets from east to west or vice versa so compulsively, I’ve decided to…
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In February 2022 I was hesitantly picking my way down Fulton and Gold Streets in the Seaport area, bracing against the icy winds and periodically dabbing tears from my eyes.…
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YOU’VE never heard of him, but Arthur Grumbine (1901-1998) was a formidable man. He began working as a telegraph operator beginning in 1918 for Philadelphia and Reading Railroad. He remained…
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ROGUE is a vintage clothing store on Stanton Street between the Bowery and Chrystie Street. I didn’t stop in, I don’t haunt these kind of places (previously I bought all…
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BEFORE 1928 6th Avenue went only as far south as Minetta and Carmine Streets in the center of Greenwich Village, and was mostly covered by an elevated train north of…
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In Tribeca, there’s a little stub of Franklin Street at Finn Square, where West Broadway meets Varick Street, between Franklin Street’s lengthier stretches west and east. The triangle has been…
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UNSTEADILY lurching down Prince Street recently in the cold wind, dodging sidewalk obstructions such as tree planters and sidewalk dining areas as well as fellow New Yorkers, I paid homage…
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It wasn’t as if I was in the Complete Traveller often. In fact I believe I made just one purchase there all the years it was open. At least I…
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ROWLAND Hussey Macy (1822-1877) was a Nantucket seaman aboard the Emily Morgan whaling ship at age 15, and while serving there he picked up at a port of call a red, five-pointed star…
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On December 31, 1838 Lin Ze Xu (1785-1850 ) was appointed by the Chinese emperor as Imperial Commissioner with the mission to eradicate opium in China. The sale of opium…