Until about 2000, the Manhattan entrance to the Manhattan Bridge was a graveyard, or depository, for several outmoded types of lampposts… bishop crooks, Type F posts, and post-1950 curved mast…
Manhattan
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At #354 Bowery between East 3rd and 4th, a road that somehow resists all efforts of local developers to tame it despite the construction of numerous high-rise glass-walled apartment buildings…
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240 West 30th Street is the oldest building on the block between 7th and 8th Avenue other than the 1872 St. John the Baptist Church. It was constructed in 1894 as…
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“J.S. Blank & Co., Men’s Neckwear” is the only one of a handful of painted business signs still visible on East 30th Street east of 5th Avenue. The sign is…
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I took a walk from Madison Square southeast to Kips Bay and then generally north to the East 34th Street ferry landing in mid- December 2014, before it started getting…
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In early 2014 we had a mild respite from the cold and I was roaming about in the East 50s when I spotted an architectural gem from the late Beaux…
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I have worked on and off in the Chelsea area for years, first at a typesetter called ANY Phototype (1988-1991), then at Macy’s as a copywriter (2000-2004) and here I…
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At Dyckman Street The IRT emerges from, and enters, a tunnel under High Bridge Park inscribed with the title “Fort George” and the dates 1776 and 1905. Fort George, originally…
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It was a Saturday, the warmest day of the spring yet, and I had come to Manhattan’s east side to search for relics. The #7 train was running between Queens…
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photo: Matthew X. Kiernan At 22nd and 6th in Chelsea is the former Ehrich Brothers Emporium, constructed in 1889, and currently home to a Burlington Coat Factory on the ground…
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The Firemen’s Memorial at West 100th Street, designed by H. Van Buren Magonigle and sculpted in 1912 by Attilio Piccirilli, is a large marble slab surrounded by an approach of…
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This classic Type 24M Twin stood at the southwest corner of West 23rd and 5th Avenue for several decades, but sometime in the early 2000s a truck plowed into it…