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…
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THE old Germania Bank building, 190 Bowery at Spring Street, has become a mecca for graffiti birds; its exterior is faded, rusted, corroded glory, with Beaux-Arts hints of another age splattered…
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THE dead of winter is a natural time to commune with the dead and in late January I was stumbling around in St. Paul’s Churchyard, which I’ve neglected over the…
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VERY infrequently in New York City, you’ll find a Street With No Name. For many years, a roadway way down at the southwest end of Bay Ridge, along Dyker Beach…
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I didn’t know it at the time, November 10th, 2019, but the last Forgotten NY tour in Sugar Hill in a packed schedule that year turned out to be the…
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It’s always a pleasure to check on 5th Avenue’s dwindling set of Twinlamps. A handful of the Queen of Avenue’s “twins,” actually the second Twinlamp design, remain along 5th between…
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In 2015, Kevin visited the East 54th Street Recreation Center in Turtle Bay, documenting its Beaux Arts architecture. Since then, it was renamed for Constance Baker Motley, continuing its role…
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HERE’S a golden oldie that may be as old as 1892 on Division Street just east of the Bowery at Chatham Square. El riders likely got a good look at…
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NEW YORK CITY once had four main trunk elevated lines: the 2nd, 3rd, 6th and 9th Avenue Els. Of these, the Third Avenue gets the most of meager press attention…
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FACING the corner of Fifth Avenue and E. 64th Street is a former state militia armory that serves as the headquarters of NYC Parks. As a landmarked building, its history…
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In the mid-1760s, NYC had sufficiently grown that the Episcopalian parish of Trinity Church began to expand uptown, and built St. Paul’s Chapel in 1766. When a giant fire broke…