Tribeca

During the summer I checked on one of my favorite Bishop Crook posts in the city — one of the few remaining decades-old ones, that is. Though they ruled the…

I was skulking around the Financial District/lower Tribeca on Greenwich Street when I found this closed CEMUSA newsstand. On the side window was something unusual, which set off some reminiscences:…

Continuing my recent alley studies, which so far have encompassed Broadway Alley, Jersey Street, Cortlandt Alley and Weehawken Street, I visited one of my favorites, Staple Street, which runs two blocks…

In the old Legion of Super-Heroes at DC Comics, one of the members was Triplicate Girl, who could split into three Triplicate Girls. I don’t know if she could cube,…

I first encountered a very odd Bishops Crook post in 1998, during the first flush of ForgottenMania, at the NW corner of Hudson and Duane Streets, opposite Duane Park. From…

Ash Wednesday crowds enter and exit St. Peter’s Church, on Church and Barclay Streets. The church represents the oldest Catholic parish in New York State and is one of the…

I have been renewing my relationship with alleys during 2012 and into 2013. I photographed most of the Manhattan alleys I knew about at the Dawn of Forgotten New York…

Back in 2006, I lamented the impending loss of the Tunnel Garage, Manhattan’s first parking garage, at Thompson and Broome Streets, thusly: The Tunnel Garage was constructed in 1922 by architect…

The Sonn Brothers,  Henry and Hyman, first went into business in the 1870s as grocers, but by the 1890s they were liquor dealers and operated from many downtown locations. Their…

The beetling, discomfiting and windowless AT&T Long Lines Building looms over tiny Trimble Place looking north. The building is a telephone exchange or wire center building which contains three major 4ESS switches used for interexchange (long distance) telephony,…

Lispenard is one of those only-in-New York street names you find downtown, such as Desbrosses and Laight — neither of which I am sure how to pronounce. I think it’s…

Lower Manhattan…the Tribecas, the SoHos, the NoHos — have become, during the last couple of decades, a wonderworld of high-end shopping, impossible-to-afford residences, and have acheived an aura of sophistication…