The Firemen’s Memorial at West 100th Street, designed by H. Van Buren Magonigle and sculpted in 1912 by Attilio Piccirilli, is a large marble slab surrounded by an approach of…
Upper West Side
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photo: Beth Goffe It’s well-known that the appearance of old street or subway signs on Forgotten New York is tantamount to those sign’s death knell and that by featuring them…
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The Art Deco Broadway Fashion Building (Sugarman & Berger, 1931), Broadway and West 84th Street, was forward-looking for its time and featured a lot of exterior glass, which would get…
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Undoubtedly well-known to Upper West Side residents, Murray’s Sturgeon Shop, on the west side of Broadway between West 89th and 90th Streets, is here on FNY because of its original…
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Though his characters ran nightclubs in Morocco, piloted rickety boats on African rivers and were mutinied on by Van Johnson, Humphrey Bogart was a Manhattanite, born in December 1899 and…
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Educators might say too much TV is bad for kids, but architect Costas Machlouzarides disagreed when designing the The Calhoun School Learning Center at 433 West End Avenue at West…
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Breaking our one-tour losing streak with the weather (The Tottenville tour was completed but through mainly rain) FNY’s Riverside Drive tour on Sunday, June 2nd, featured mostly sunshine with the…
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383-389 West End Avenue (and 301-307 West 78th around the corner) were built in 1886, when West End Avenue was still called 11th. They were among the finest buildings their…
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72 is my favorite temperature, and it’s also the number of my favorite subway station as well, the one with the distinctive Heins and LaFarge headhouse, built during the first…
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One of the last enclosed public phone booths in New York City can be found, or could (this photo was taken 3 years ago) at West End Avenue and West…
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It’s hard to believe it, but it’s nowhere near as easy as it used to be to ride a horse in Central Park (unless you are a mounted policeman). The only…
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Riverside Drive is justly famed for its undulating route along the Hudson; Riverside Park — New York’s longest; its Beaux Arts and Art Deco apartment buildings; and Grant’s Tomb, the massive…