At a width of just 25 feet total, Exchange Alley is the thinnest street in Manhattan that is open to vehicular traffic. It runs one block between Broadway and Trinity…
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Morningside Avenue is one of the shortest of Manhattan’s north-south avenues, running just 14 blocks from Manhattan Avenue and West 113th to West 127th and Convent, running along Morningside Park. If…
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I am feeling a little wearied from composing multipart Sunday pages, so I think I’ll reach back into my mixed bag of tricks. I haven’t done one of these tutti…
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As stated earlier, I was walking around the Gramercy Park area with friends looking for a diner when, wandering down 20th Street, my eye fell on a couple of items.…
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We were prowling around on a Sunday noon around lunchtime looking for a diner that didn’t have a line out the door (apparently Joe Junior, which I heard had premium burgers,…
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In the summer of 2015 I strolled down 11th Avenue in Hell’s Kitchen, checking off the boxes: Landmark Tavern on West 46th, still there; Mike Quill Bus depot on West…
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Electrical substations perform a number of tasks including transforming voltage from high to low or vice versa, or generate, transmit or distribute electrical voltage as needed. There are dozens such…
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I was a bit early for the film I was going to see at The Loews 34th (Alien: Covenant, which checks most of the boxes of menacing alien tropes in…
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Every day when reporting to work at ANY Photoype at 130 West 29th Street (a grimy place, built between the wars and still there) from 1988 to 1991, I could look…
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Located deep in northern Central Park are remnants of the United Staes’ second war with Britain, the War of 1812, fought for a variety of reasons including British “impressments” of…
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When FNY did its “ancient and notable bars” tour in spring 2017, we concentrated on the Greenwich Village and Union Square area and hence, didn’t see the Landmark Tavern, 11th…
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6th Avenue runs up the center of Manhattan Island; in his compilation Ferrari in the Bedroom, humorist Jean Shepherd called it “the armpit of Manhattan.” It was originally laid out in…