The Yorkville Clock at 1501 3rd Avenue and East 85th Street has been here since 1898 — lasting an entire century and parts of two others. Like many other sidewalk clocks it originally…
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I was shuffling about the Upper East Side a few years ago when I spotted this extraordinarily painted building front in red, white and blue on 3rd Avenue between East…
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As I usually do in December I rode the MTA’s “holiday special” trainset, which is a unit of older cars that the Transit Museum put together from its vintage car…
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In June 2017 I visited the doctor for the first time in awhile. My weight, blood pressure and blood sugar were all up, not to dangerous levels that would make…
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Continued from Part 1 Well, the 2nd Avenue Subway, which opened on 1/1/17, was among the most talked-about events in NYC in late 2016 and early 2017. How can it…
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I was hustling west on East 87th Street a couple of years ago on a day that couldn’t figure out whether to sun or rain when I spotted this neat…
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I was skulking through Yorkville this past spring in and out of the rain when I noticed this superannuated relic on East 87th just east of Lexington Avenue. It’s a…
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On the unholiest day of the year, I’m featuring a church, Our Lady of Good Counsel Roman Catholic Church, constructed on 230 East 90th between 2nd and 3rd Avenues in…
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I was meeting someone in Yorkville a couple of weeks ago and I was a bit early, so I started shuffling about, and decided to investigate these massive edifices between…
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Sequestered along quiet East 92nd Street east of Park Avenue are a trio of grand old wooden houses with porches, distinctive in the Upper East Side due to their contrast…
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Getting the job done at 2nd Avenue and East 87th Street in Yorkville, but not a bit more, is this bare-bones lamppost. For the past few years, 2nd Avenue has…
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I have always wanted to do a big page on NYC’s hundreds of street clocks, big and small. At first I restricted myself to freestanding sidewalk clocks, and then I did a…