Union Square

I was first introduced to the Old Town Bar, 45 East 18th Street between Broadway and Park Avenue South, on a sweltering summer afternoon in 1981, in the 99th year of its…

Continued from Part 1 It’s time for another entry in FNY’s Cross Streets of NYC series!  I’ve done them piecemeal in the past, but I’ve already posted 20th Street, 21st Street, 22nd Street, 17th…

It’s time for another entry in FNY’s Cross Streets of NYC series!  I’ve done them piecemeal in the past, but I’ve already posted 20th Street, 21st Street, 22nd Street, 17th Street, 10th Street, 6th Street, 18th Street, 25th…

In October 2020 FNY featured the 34th Street station complex at Herald and Greeley Squares, where the Broadway (BMT), 6th Avenue (IND) and PATH trains to New Jersey all come…

Continuing my Manhattan cross streets series. I’ve done them piecemeal in the past, but I’ve already posted 20th Street, 22nd Street, 17th Street and 10th Street in this batch, and 14th Street as well in autumn…

Continuing my Manhattan cross streets series. I’ve done them piecemeal in the past, but I’ve already posted 20th Street and 22nd Street in March with more to follow. Today’s entry:…

The northwest corner of East 14th Street and Irving Place is currently dominated by a combined residential-commercial complex, Zeckendorf Towers, completed in 1987. The complex includes entrances to the large…

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…

In midtown for many years (since 1937!) there has been a bar known as the Subway Inn, so named for its proximity to the underground complex at Lexington Avenue that…

One of Union Square’s statues and memorials that might het overlooked because it is somewhat secreted behind the Farmers Market (when the vendors are there) on Union Square West between…

Known officially as a Type 24M Twin, this post holds down the southeast corner of 5th Avenue and East 19th Street a few blocks from Union Square. I am using the…

The Hudson & Manhattan Railroad is unfamiliar to most modern-day commuters, but transit buffs recognize it as the present-day PATH train, an acronym for the Port Authority Trans-Hudson Railroad —…