120 Broadway, the Equitable Building, is one of those rare NYC buildings that occupy an entire block, between Broadway and Nasssau, Pine and Cedar Streets. It was designed by architect…
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It’s unusual to see one-or-two-story, freestanding houses in Manhattan, but there are a pair of surviving ones on East 58th Street just east of 2nd Avenue. High-rise buildings cluster nearby,…
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45 Murray Street, part of the Tribeca South landmarked district, is a 4-story building dating from the early 19th Century that was expanded and reconstructed in 1854 by architect Samuel…
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This painted ad in exquisitely serifed lettering appears high over West 30th Street near 10th Avenue, heading east, in view of the new High Line Park. The founder was Russian…
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I’m beginning a new Forgotten NY category called Eats, in which I talk about lunch and dinner spots I like to frequent. I’m hardly a gourmet, but there are a…
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I’m thankful that a small number of “original” bishop crook lamps from the early 20th Century have been allowed to stand (mostly by default, but now most are landmarked) like…
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There’s a comely young woman in a diaphanous dress reclining on a pedestal facing north on Broadway and West 106th Street, pensively looking at the ground. She’s always there! Unfortunately,…
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There’s been a lot of “ink” and cyberink spilled lately regarding the new Fulton Transit Center, which is basically a new headhouse with rearranged passageways that links the BMT, IND…
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I was skulking through Yorkville this past spring in and out of the rain when I noticed this superannuated relic on East 87th just east of Lexington Avenue. It’s a…
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Perfect weather returned for ForgottenTour #85 in Manhattan’s Lower East Side on October 19th, 2014. I perhaps overpacked the tour with highlights — 60 in all — so I had…
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CONTINUED FROM PART 1 On a crystal clear day in September, I took the A train like Ellington uptown to the 145th Street station and started idly milling about the…
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On a crystal clear day in September, I took the A train like Ellington uptown to the 145th Street station and started idly milling about the upper Manhattan neighborhoods of…