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…
Midtown
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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…
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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…