Dazedly dodging Times Square crowds in the numbing cold of mid-February I found myself at 7th Avenue and West 46th Street, home on the ground floor at least to the…
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1938 was a year in which els began to disappear from the Manhattan landscape, with the 6th, 2nd and 9th Avenue Els in succession all going the way of the…
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Gary Fonville, FNY’s man in the MTA and former city bus driver, has been working overtime of late uncovering Forgotten oddities all over the city. Here are yet more… …
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When the Rouse Company remade the South Street Seaport area between 1981-1983, rehabilitating buildings, adding new buildings, and opening the tourist-friendly Pier 17 (where I still get tuna and pasta…
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This is one of Avenue of the Americas’ dwindling supply of lamppost medallions, installed around 1960 to honor the involvement of the USA in the Organization of American States, which…
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Tompkins Square Park, a green oasis in the East Village between East 7th and East 10th Streets and Avenues A and B, has always been an open space in this part…