Union Square

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 —…

I can’t say why but this “faded ad” combo on East 16th Street just east of Union Square has really faded away in recent years. On the left is part…

NYC’s Deskey lamppost, a design of industrial developer Donald Deskey (who also designed the interior of Radio City Music Hall and the Crest toothpaste tube) was first introduced on Broadway…

Corinthian-columned, monumental Union Square Savings Bank, Union Square East and East 15th, was built in 1905 as a mini-Greek temple worshiping thrift. Its architect was Henry Bacon, the designer of the Lincoln Memorial…

It was a Saturday, the warmest day of the spring yet, and I had come to Manhattan’s east side to search for relics. The #7 train was running between Queens…

Photo: Bob Mulero From FNY’s “Ancien Regime” lamps page: The first castiron post to appear on NYC streets was what The System Electric Companies classified as the Type 3 Fifth Avenue…

Samuel Klein founded the discount chain S. Klein before World War II, with the flagship store at Union Square East and East 14th Street, and the business eventually grew as…

Continued from PART 1 Continuing my trip from Straus Square on the Lower East Side to Midtown’s Penn Station… WAYFARING MAP: Seward Park to Penn Station   222 Bowery just…

I haven’t done as many long-form specials with as many as 100 pictures per page of late. In the Age of Twitter, people are increasingly impatient with these long treatises…

Since I’m the biggest square in town, I thought it would be appropriate to do a page, or set of pages, on the five major squares in Manhattan south of…