FEBRUARY 18, 2024 was actually looking wintery around town, as we had just wrapped up a couple of snowfalls, rare in NYC winters of late, and it was a sunny,…
Seaport
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BESET by nagging maladies and injuries…some of which are still ongoing (the lower back is a frequent target for the pain gods) …I was in the mood for a somewhat…
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In February 2022 I was hesitantly picking my way down Fulton and Gold Streets in the Seaport area, bracing against the icy winds and periodically dabbing tears from my eyes.…
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I’VE written about the Excelsior Power Company building before since I have known about it for years before Forgotten New York was a twinkle in my eye. But now, in…
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A pleasant plaza is encountered at Gold and Fulton Streets, where Fulton takes a slight jog near the Seaport area. There are large rocks, pleasant vegetation, and a winding path.…
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THERE’S a tiny triangle at Gold and Frankfort Streets west of the Seaport at the Brooklyn Bridge off-ramps that remembers one of the most powerful stock brokerage and investment banking services firms in…
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I had overlooked this rusted iron post on Frankfort Street and Park Row. These posts with finned masts…thicker versions of the finned streetlamps that originally lit the FDR Drive, Gowanus…
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Continued from Part 1 In May 2016 I decided to walk up Pearl Street’s entire length from Battery Park to Tribeca. It’s an oddly positioned street, as far as downtown…
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An L-shaped alley appears on maps of Lower Manhattan going back as far as 1776. At that early date we can already see streets with the same names as now,…
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Despite what some daily NYC websites and their commentators have been saying over the years, and what the NY Times architecture critic said when it opened in 1975, the large…
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An old-school gold and black Manhattan Beekman Street street sign is mounted in front of a fire engine belonging to the Engine 6 firehouse in lower Manhattan. Such signs were…
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Bowne & Co. Stationers at 211 Water Street is a working job print shop as well as a department of the South Street Seaport Museum. It was one of the…