Tribeca

Catherine Lane is one of Manhattan’s “forgottenest”alleys. It’s still there — it runs between Broadway and Lafayette just north of Worth Street. However, it has been shrouded by a permanent…

Since the early 1950s, thick-shafted, massive guy wired stoplights have guarded busier NYC intersections. They now number in the thousands since their introduction. However, very occasionally around town, you would…

NYC King of Lampposts Bob Mulero snapped this scene at the west end of Canal Street in 1977. Here’s a special edition Type 24 Twin post, and in the background,…

I can’t believe I have ignored this painted ad for Ragú spaghetti sauce on the side of a restaurant on 6th Avenue between White and Walker Streets in Tribeca until…

Mayon Crating and Shipping was once one of the many river-associated businesses in what was once called the Lower West Side but is now called Tribeca, the Triangle Below Canal…

On a morning when it dropped to 11 degrees Fahrenheit, it’s appropriate to talk about a frieze. This aggressively Machine-age frieze is attached to a pedestrian overpass in Independence Plaza…

200 Hudson Street is one of those huge loft buildings with hundreds of windows built in early-to-mid 20th Century seen frequently in Tribeca lining Hudson and Varick Streets. The building…

ForgottenFans gather at the Square Diner, Varick and Leonard Streets, for ForgottenTour #99 on October 18, 2015. Some of the tour highlights:   Because of the miracle of landmarks preservation, the…

While stumbling around Tribeca scouting the ForgottenTour that was held on October 4, 2015, I saw this painted ad at #77 Hudson Street just south of Harrison Street, and I…

Here’s an item I didn’t get to because of time constraints on the Forgotten NY Tribeca tour on Sunday, October 4, 2015: The gold leaf signage on this building on…

Classic, railway-car shaped diners have become scarce in Manhattan (and to a lesser degree other boroughs)  since the Bloomberg Era ushered in Luxury City. Property owners and developers look with…

The former 331, 329, 327 Washington Street before Independence Plaza was built Though the massive yet quite mundane Independence Plaza now dominates the old Washington Market area, there’s a break in…