THE ceramic plaque at the Canal Street station on the #1 train, the 7th Avenue line, depicts a church with a towering spire, flanked by ample vegetation. Neither the church that…
Tribeca
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In Tribeca, there’s a little stub of Franklin Street at Finn Square, where West Broadway meets Varick Street, between Franklin Street’s lengthier stretches west and east. The triangle has been…
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WHAT a difference 6 years make. In March 2015 I was picking my way through Tribeca at the end of a considerably cold winter, by far the coldest in recent…
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WHEN you are a photographer in New York City taking photos of infrastructure, it sometimes isn’t easy. I was setting up a shot on 1st Avenue over the weekend, concentrating…
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HAVE you ever been wandering in northern Tribeca…just south of Canal Street…and encountered 6th Avenue and wondered, what the heck is a numbered NYC avenue doing this far south? After…
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YOU have to look carefully to see it but a small sign on a relatively nondescript 4-story building on the east side of Church Street between Franklin and White Streets…
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Take a look at this Google map excerpt in Tribeca, specifically, a short street wedged along a Holland Tunnel exit ramp that connects Laight and Vestry Streets east of Hudson…
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One recent Saturday I decided to take several trains from Little Neck to Belleville, NJ, walk around for a bit, and come home. I’ll present the photos from that excursion…
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The Bazzini nut empire moved out of the massive 339-343 Greenwich at Jay Street in 2009 after 123 years in Tribeca; it was originally located on Park Place but moved here in…
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Today I’m showing an extinct variety of castiron lamp that could very occasionally be found on NYC streets. Oddly this post does not appear in either the Landmarks Preservation Commission’s…
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Once again, another obligation-packed weekend and work week under way, with actual paying work obligations combined with tour planning, actual tours and dentist appointments, and I’ve little time again to…
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The Works Progress Administration Guide to NYC is a dense, 700-page volume with tightly-spaced type in a small but readable Garamond font, with a generous use of maps, art and…