In the spring of 2018, I was working in a building from 12 midnight to 8 am I last worked in 30 years ago. The company I worked for then, Photo-Lettering,went…
Turtle Bay
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Dag Hammarskjöld Plaza runs from 2nd Avenue east to 1st Avenue at East 47th Street, constructed by the NYC Parks department shortly after the UN opened on 1st Avenue in…
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A pair of French Second Empire (recognizable by slanted roofs and dormer windows) clapboard houses built by Robert and James Cunningham in 1866 have somehow survived at 312 and 314…
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FNY’s tour of Turtle Bay, October 16, 2016, was held back a week because of pouring rain a week earlier on October 9, and the crowd was a bit small,…
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In early 2017 I was temp-ing at the Bloomingdale’s offices, looking over catalogs and mailings. During lunch or after work, being the Forgotten NY webmaster, I wandered around to see…
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While stumbling around the Turtle Bay area at 3rd Avenue and East 55th Street in 2014, I had no idea I would someday work in the beetling, gray-black #919 3rd,…
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Turtle Bay, in the East 40s and 50s from Park Avenue east to the East River, likely takes its name from a Dutch term meaning “bent blade,” probably referencing the…
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Turtle Bay, in the East 40s and 50s from Park Avenue east to the East River, likely takes its name from a Dutch term meaning “bent blade,” probably referencing the…
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Sicilian immigrant Joseph Bari opened his first pizzeria in 1973, purchasing a –what else — Ray’s Pizza at 3rd Avenue and East 76th Street and renaming it for himself, in…
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Much of Manhattan is a numbered street grid, with the exception of lower Manhattan below Houston Street, Greenwich Village, and many streets far uptown in Inwood and the Dyckman Street…
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There is a classic Bishop Crook post in the United Nations area that I haven’t featured in FNY much over the years. The reason is simple. I never seem to…
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In early 2014 we had a mild respite from the cold and I was roaming about in the East 50s when I spotted an architectural gem from the late Beaux…