The application of gold leaf on glass is becoming as lost an art as are painted ads on buildings. Nestled above #5 West 31st Street up until recently was an…
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Along with Prince Street, which it “becomes” once it crosses 6th Avenue, Charlton Street is a remnant of British rule in NYC; it is named for British physician Dr. John…
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The east end of East 31st Street between 2nd and 3rd Avenues is one of Manhattan’s rare tree-lined streets, consisting of brownstone and brick townhouses punctuated by the 1904 Church…
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The Village Alliance has a photo on the display windows of a (temporarily) abandoned storefront on West 8th between 6th Avenue and Macdougal Street a panoramic view of West 8th…
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BY SERGEY KADINSKY Forgotten New York correspondent On the map of Manhattan, the first decade of the new millennium has given the island a new set of streets, with seemingly…
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When the Cathedral of St. John the Divine began construction in 1892 at Amsterdam avenue and West 110th Street, the city believed that the occasion required a grand, wide boulevard…
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Chisum Place is a one-block street running between West 141st and West 142nd streets just west of 5th Avenue in Harlem. It was constructed in the late 1950s between the…
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Continued from Part 1 Washington and Madison Squares. The King of All Buildings. St. Patrick’s Cathedral. Tiffany & Co. The east end of Central Park. The Plaza Hotel. The Metropolitan…
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Seen at regular intervals along the walls at the Whitehall Street BMT subway station serving R trains, the first or last in Manhattan depending on your direction, are these terra…
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Just north of Trinity Churchyard at Broadway and Wall Street is the Trinity Building, designed along with the U.S. Realty Building next door, by Francis Kimball and constructed from 1904-1907…
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Washington and Madison Squares. The King of All Buildings. St. Patrick’s Cathedral. Tiffany & Co. The east end of Central Park. The Plaza Hotel. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. The…
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Most street signs that appear on corner buildings are functional and nonesthetic at best, but this one above the Mexican Festival restaurant at the SE corner of Broadway and 102nd…