BY SERGEY KADINSKYForgotten NY correspondent At the end of 2023, the ribbon was cut on the East Midtown Greenway, an elevated walkway built above the water, connecting East 54th Street…
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PERHAPS you don’t immediately know the name Piet Mondrian, but you might more readily know his style: unevenly spaced boxes, some filled with color, some without. They have been used in…
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THE big bruiser at East 53rd and Lexington is the Citicorp Tower (since renamed the Citigroup Center). It was built between 1974 and 1977 and is 914 feet tall; its slanted roof,…
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AFTER a recent series on 6th Avenue, I’m not quite finished with the number six, as a recent walk took me into the East Village down East 6th and 7th…
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HERE’S part of a wonderfully detailed Edsall map of lower Manhattan from 1880. I’m sure I’ll return to it again and again for FNY posts; just look at how busy…
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Continued from Part 2 IT’S been two decades since I first walked 6th Avenue for FNY, and things have changed along the avenue in the center of Manhattan (in “The Ferrari in…
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IT’S been two decades since I first walked 6th Avenue for FNY, and things have changed along the avenue in the center of Manhattan (in “The Ferrari in the Bedroom,”…
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WANT to check out some NYC history but don’t want to ferret it out in a museum? Ride the subway instead. This plaque, designed by Jay Van Everen and located…
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St. Andrew’s Church was consecrated here on Duane Street behind the Municipal Building in 1939, replacing an earlier church named Carroll Hall built in 1842. Just before the Civil War…
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On a visit to see the remodeled Penn Station LIRR corridor in February 2023, I was meandering around the area when this tall brick building on West 34th just off…
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BOWNE & Co. Stationers at 211 Water Street is a working job print shop as well as a department of the South Street Seaport Museum. It was one of the…
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Ed. note: I haven’t been to the Statue of Liberty since a Cub Scout trip in 1965, and I remember exactly nothing, but Sergey has been there a bit more…