FOR some time I wondered about the original purpose of this Greek temple on the Riverside Drive viaduct just south of West 135th Street. I recently discovered it: historian Fred…
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As a kid, I was far from amiable. Pretty much all I wanted to do was read, or fill writing tablets with drawings of lampposts. My parents’ constant refrain was,…
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TWO very different eras of American history appear side by side in Sheridan Square in Greenwich Village. 7th Avenue South was created in the 1910s by the extension of the…
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WHO is Hugh O’Neill, and why is his name on this building high above Sixth Avenue and 22nd Street? Back in the good old days, circa 1900, Hugh O’Neill owned the…
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In an area rich with architectural gems like the Yale Club, General Society of Mechanics and tradesmen and the Algonquin Hotel, all on West 44th, FDNY Engine Company #56, a…
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FEBRUARY 18, 2024 was actually looking wintery around town, as we had just wrapped up a couple of snowfalls, rare in NYC winters of late, and it was a sunny,…
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I have always been fascinated by the massive masonry arches (that cover a steel framework) that pop up around town. Probably the greatest concentration is in Astoria, where a series…
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PERIODICALLY, I check on my favorite bits of infrastructure around town and sometimes I’m disappointed, like when I saw the Twinlamp at 5th Avenue and 28th Street had disappeared. Well,…
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Continued from Part One 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…
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As we embark on another summer in NYC, my 66th, it can be said that summers have grown in uncomfortability in recent years. Heat waves in which it stays in…
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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 the past…
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PARDON the appearance to today’s photos of the Type 24 Twin lamp on 5th Avenue — I had to use very old photos that were saved very small because Forgotten…