The Italianate apartment-mixed use building 985 2nd Avenue, on the corner of East 52nd, is loomed over by more recent structures such as 875 3rd Avenue (1982) in whose basement food…
Manhattan
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“What hath God wrought?” With those words, the Information Age began. You know Samuel Finley Breese Morse (1791-1872) invented the telegraph and sent that first famous message in 1844 … but did you…
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By GARY FONVILLE Forgotten NY correspondent I was in Lower Manhattan recently headed to a national stationery store to purchase computer ink. Don’t get me started on how computer printer…
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Word comes that a pair of classic NYC lampposts from an earlier era have been torn down, at least temporarily. This Corvington at Morris Street and a stub of Washington…
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During the recent East Village tour, I misplaced the Spingler vault in the St. Mark’s churchyard, which I wanted to talk about, so here it is now… The St. Mark’s…
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NYC’s King of Lampposts, Bob Mulero, has become even better at noticing NYC structural anomalies than me, and that’s saying something. He has uncovered one at the corner of 1st…
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On the northern edge of Central Park, the hills are steep, and rough hewn staircases ascend as high as a two or three story building. This part of the park…
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I have been poring through the 1940s tax photos that NYC recently added to its online Municipal Archives. Formerly, you had to request these shots from the Archives at $25…
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There are only three subway stations located on 5th Avenue in Manhattan, and none at all in Brooklyn, which also has a lengthy 5th Avenue. In Manhattan, the Queen of…
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I was taken aback just a bit when getting off the A train at Canal Street recently. It happens to be one of those stops that exits into a building…
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By SERGEY KADINSKY Forgotten NY correspondent Between the outbreak of the Revolutionary War in 1775 and the evacuation of British forces eight years later, New York City was a battlefield…
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New York City’s oldest extant hotel building is hiding in plain sight at the busy corner of West Broadway and Chambers in Tribeca. Recently redubbed as a luxury hotel called…