There’s plenty going on in this shot of 5th Avenue looking north from 34th Street in the fabulous 50s, that I snagged from the Facebook group ONLY CLASSIC NYCTA SUBWAYS BUSES/LIRR/METRO…
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The impressive townhouse at 124 East 55th between Park and Lexington was built around 1910 and is known as the Mary Hale Cunningham House, after its original owner. However, the…
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For most of the 20th Century, between about 1915 and 1965, Manhattan and the Bronx were dominated by classic “humpback” street signs in navy blue (coincidentally NY Yankee colors) with…
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Last week I told of walking east on 29th Street to get to the city’s Park Avenue Summer Streets program, held the first three Saturdays of every August between 7…
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I took the Port Authority Trans-Hudson subway (PATH Train) every day for a job in Hoboken in early 2016 and, while many PATH stations still boast the vaulted ceilings they…
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When I worked at Photo-Lettering, NYC’s biggest typesetting shop in the 1980s as a proofreader, we dealt with proofs on all sorts of surfaces, from shiny Agfa paper to see-through…
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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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photo: Glen Norman, 2001 This Twin stood on the SW corner of 5th Avenue and West 32nd Street until approximately 2013. It’s a Twinlamp but not the original 5th Avenue…
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51 East 42nd Street is an 18th Century Beaux Arts office tower at the NW corner of East 42nd Street and Vanderbilt Avenue that runs all the way north to…
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For years I had labored under the idea that the two busts (one above the door, the other on the top floor) that you can see on the Brill Building, NW…
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I know about Thomas Gainsborough, but I pretty much know about him because of The Kinks. The portrait and landscape painter’s (1727-1788) most famous work is The Blue Boy, rendered…
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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…