SEVEN years after walking up Thompson Street, which runs north in Manhattan from Broome Street to Washington Squarein Soho and the Village, I walked north on its brother, Sullivan Street,…
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I have not often mentioned 5th Avenue’s signature stoplight, the Mercury, a bronze pole with red and green lamps placed catercorner on 5th Avenue from Washington Square to 59th Street…
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THE early 1950s saw new lamppost designs appearing on New York City streets. The Art Deco, Machine Age and Art Moderne movements in architecture had given rise to new, streamlined…
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A golden oldie from 1999, here’s a Twin Type F lamppost on Sutton Square at the east end of East 58th Street at the East River. The base of this…
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A narrow tower on West 14th just off 6th was one of the last buildings constructed for Macy’s when the World’s Biggest Store occupied a complex of buildings on West…
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BROADWAY begins at Battery Place and Bowling Green and runs as a continuous road, much of it NY State Route #9, almost all the way to the Canadian border. In…
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BEFORE heading off to see the recently reopened section of East River Park (on an upcoming FNY post) I decided to check out Rutgers Street, because I had never walked…
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WHILE journeying over to Elizabeth Street to view the Elizabeth Street Garden, which locals and preservationists want to save, developers are salivating over, and has become something of a political…
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FROM 2021 comes this image of the giant painted ad for men’s clothier Weber & Heilbroner at 6th Avenue and West 35th Street, directly across the street from the statue…
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CAN it really be almost nine years since I last explored the underground passageway beneath Rockefeller Center that rins beneath 6th Avenue from west 47th to 53rd Streets and then…
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AROUND the corner from the Museum Mile of Fifth Avenue at 6 East 87th Street in a private alley is a detailed statue more worthy of a public space, known…
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THE city’s Hall of Records at 31 Chambers Street is an unlikely candidate for a Forgotten-NY essay as its exterior and interior are landmarked, it appeared in numerous movies, and…