NEXT time you are in midtown between 5th and 8th Avenues and 23rd and 40th Streets, be sure and look up at all the ancient brick buildings, built in stolid…
Midtown
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Continued from Part 1 It’s time for another entry in FNY’s Cross Streets of NYC series! I have been walking Manhattan’s numbered streets from east to west or vice versa…
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It’s time for another entry in FNY’s Cross Streets of NYC series! I’ve done them piecemeal in the past, but I’ve already posted 20th Street, 21st Street, 22nd Street, 17th Street, 10th Street, 6th Street, 18th Street, 25th…
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The summer of 2020 has been among the hottest in years, rivaling the ones I recall in 1988 and 1999. Nevertheless I was itching for a Manhattan stroll, as I…
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Here’s a 1965 view of the northwest corner of 6th Avenue and West 46th Street in Midtown, which at the time hosted a Hadley drugstore, one of what once was…
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The Demarest Building is a Beaux-Arts era building on the northeast corner of 5th Avenue and East 33rd Street, across the street from the Empire State Building, which it preceded…
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As Forgotten NY fans know by now, I’m fascinated with New York City’s infrastructure and despite the subway’s overall failings, I’ve always had a soft spot for subway infrastructure; I…
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Walking around the 57th Street area east of Columbus Circle, where there are so many gigantic towers going up at the moment, it’s easy to forget that there are still…
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As many ForgottenFans know, I have been working in the Columbus Circle/Hells Kitchen region of late. On an after-work ramble, I headed east on West 58th Street and happened upon…
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St. Patrick’s Cathedral is the Capitol Building of the Catholic Church in New York City. The twin-spired Gothic Revival edifice, occupying the complete block between 5th and Madison Avenues and…
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Lord & Taylor, a department store fixture on 5th Avenue between West 38th and 39th Street for decades, has now closed. The building will remain, but will become offices including a WeWork…
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There are only three subway stations located on 5th Avenue in Manhattan, and none at all in Brooklyn, which also has a lengthy 5th Avenue. In Manhattan, the Queen of…