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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Gary Fonville passes along this photo of a decommissioned token booth at the 50th Street station serving uptown C and E trains. Before actual token dispensing kiosks were constructed in…
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Seen here at the Tudor City Place overpass on East 42nd Street, just south of the United Nations, are a pair of Corvington, or Type 24M, lampposts. Toward the end…
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Fabulous 57th Street, just south of Central Park, is relatively unplumbed territory for me, though I have been fascinated in the past with the block between Broadway and 7th Avenue.…
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Oddly enough, the Rizzoli bookstore at 31 West 57th Street only entered my consciousness just recently, when endless development put its 109-year-old building in jeopardy on a stretch of West…
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I’ve mentioned NYC’s public fire alarms before because they’re true “living fossils” on NYC streets whose design was pretty much codified and finalized in the 1912-1913 period. In the wireless…
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Seen from Broadway near Union Square are the King of All Buildings and his pals, One Madison and the Metropolitan Life Tower, the latter two at East 23rd Street and…
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Way back in 2008 I was meandering west on 35th Street between 7th and 9th, the south end of the Garment District, when I spotted a building entrance that must…
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On the weekend of May 11th and 12th, 2013, Grand Central Terminal assembled a group of restored luxury sleeper, lounge, and diner cars that ran on various railroads countrywide as…
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I’ve never been desperate enough to eat at Tad’s, and believe me, I’m no snob when it comes to fast food. To me, Tad’s has always been associated with the…
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This will turn out to be the second FNY post regarding NYC Mayor from 1913-1917, John Purroy Mitchel, in the last four months, but sometimes things turn out like that.…
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Since we recently lost another of 5th Avenue’s classic 1910s-era Twin lampposts, at 32nd Street, there re just 4 left from a proud history of hundreds. Classic Twin: 5th and…