The Webster Apartments, an impressive brick 13-story building at West 34th Street and Dyer Avenue (the entrance ramp to the Lincoln Tunnel) has provided affordable accommodations for NYC’s “working girls”…
Penn Station
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Some of the original Penn Station has been in view from the south end of the southbound local IRT station serving the #1 train, as a passageway constructed (likely by…
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Here’s a photo from the NYC Municipal Archives of the Market Diner on the NW corner of 9th Avenue and West 33rd Street. At the time, the diner occupied the…
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By GARY FONVILLE Forgotten NY correspondent How many of us have walked by this building at 242 W. 31st Street , across from Madison Square Garden, and never gave it…
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The old Penn Station is not completely gone. If you poke around long enough in the basement of Madison Square Garden, which is what the ‘new’ Penn Station became, you…
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240 West 30th Street is the oldest building on the block between 7th and 8th Avenue other than the 1872 St. John the Baptist Church. It was constructed in 1894 as…
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As of early 2014 I’m looking around for work and have been “freelancing” for three years. Most of my career has consisted of working with print, editing, writing, proofreading, and…
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It’s merely a coincidence — etymologically it’s completely unrelated — but I like the way the name “Noyes” combines the negative and the affirmative in one name. Undoubtedly, the thousands…
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Deep in the bowels of Pennsylvania station, somewhere near the baggage check area near Track 1, there stands one of the last relics of when Penn Station served as a…
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Hungarian immigrant Alexander Samuel Beck opened a shoe store with his brother Samuel on Fulton Street in Brooklyn in 1909. After the partnership with his brother dissolved he opened a…
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It’s one era of fast food giving way to another. The rubber steaks of Tad’s, shot through with teeth-jarring gristle, have surrendered to the prefab pizzas of Pizza Hut and…
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Adjoining the Gross pawnbroker on 8th Avenue near W. 34th is a concrete facade touting the long-gone presence of Bickford’s, one of a chain of luncheonettes and eateries founded by…