Manhattan

Located in a dead-end park path just south of the 96th Street Transverse Road just off 5th Avenue, this replica of  a lifesize portrait of Danish sculptor Albert Bertel Thorvaldsen…

NYC King of Lampposts Bob Mulero snapped this scene at the west end of Canal Street in 1977. Here’s a special edition Type 24 Twin post, and in the background,…

The Manhattan Savings Institution was first chartered in 1850 and the bank survived under that name for a surprisingly long time, until 1942.  Then it became the Manhattan Savings Bank after some…

Continued from Part 1 I decided to head over to City Hall Park, and the area immediately surrounding it, to look at the lampposts. But as usual with this stuff,…

By SERGEY KADINSKY Forgotten NY correspondent One of the most unusual uptown addresses is 35 West 134th Street. Finding this address is not easy as it is located on a…

As stated in FNY’s previous post on one of the Garment District’s leftover sidewalk lamp globes, the area looks much the same as it did decades ago. One aspect that…

At some point in the Super 70s — I forget which year now — the Department of Transportation thought that some Garment District side streets needed some extra illumination for…

This was one of what was originally five exquisite entrance and exit kiosks, rendered in beautiful Beaux Arts terra cotta, that used to stand at 2nd Avenue and East 60th…

I’ve never been in the Subway Inn in either of its locations, but that’s OK, I’m really here to mention its red neon sign, which survived its transplant. For eight decades…

I’ve only been in the Peter McManus Cafe, at 7th Avenue and W. 19th, once — in 1993, I had just gotten out of class at the School of Visual…

I’m continuing my “Under the El” series, which recently visited 31st Street in Astoria, with a walk under Manhattan’s last remaining el, which continues on as far as Van Cortlandt…

Here’s some solid gold from December 2004, in the era before Governors Island had become the mostly public park it is today (at least during the warm months). In 2004,…