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Is this the oldest photograph of New York?
It just might be, according to New York: An Illustrated History, by Ric Burns and James Sanders. Taken at Broadway between Franklin and Leonard Streets, it’s believed to date to May 1850. Looks … more →
Ephemeral New York
Is this the oldest photograph of New York?
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wrote 1 week ago: It just might be, according to New York: An Illustrated History, by Ric Burns and James Sanders. Tak … more →
Turkey Day with the inmates at the Tombs
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wrote 1 month ago: On December 1, 1903, The New York Times ran a long article covering how city orphanages, missions, h … more →
Winged chariots and lions on West 30th Street
wrote 1 month ago: Not too many Manhattan buildings feature terra cotta panels and friezes inspired by ancient Assyrian … more →
The mysterious names on a midtown building
wrote 1 month ago: De Soto. Montcalm. Vespucci. La Salle. Marquette. The names of these men and others are inscribed ab … more →
A sumptuous 22-room mansion on the East River
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wrote 2 months ago: The breathtaking house looks like it belongs in Newport, Rhode Island, or on Long Island’s Nor … more →
Madison Square Garden on the move
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wrote 2 months ago: Ever wonder why it’s called Madison Square Garden—when it’s not near Madison Square? Th … more →
Riverside Drive's Hendrik Hudson apartments
wrote 3 months ago: From a publication called The World’s New York Apartment House Album comes this sketch and des … more →
Mysterious building names on Ninth Avenue
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wrote 3 months ago: Most city tenements are marked at the top by a name, presumably of the builder, and the year the str … more →
The faces on the Flatiron Building
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wrote 4 months ago: The Flatiron Building is so striking and unusual, it’s easy to get caught up gazing at the ove … more →
Why are tenements mainly named after girls?
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wrote 6 months ago: Or maybe the question should be why unremarkable five- and six-story apartment buildings have names … more →
The Little Church Around the Corner
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wrote 6 months ago: Officially known as the Church of the Transfiguration since its founding in 1848, the lilliputian Ep … more →
A Bronx home for former millionaires
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wrote 6 months ago: Andrew Freedman appears to have been your run-of-the-mill Gilded-Age millionaire. He made his cash i … more →
The sunny side of East 110th Street
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wrote 7 months ago: When you see letters carved into the top of a tenement building, they usually spell out the name of … more →
The last helicopter on the Pan Am Building
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wrote 7 months ago: Since 1981 it’s been owned by Met Life (though the Met Life sign didn’t go up until 1991 … more →
Fighting the "white plague" on Cherokee Place
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wrote 10 months ago: The charming Cherokee Apartments on 77th Street and Cherokee Place—a sliver of a block between York … more →
The Jeanne d'Arc "French Flats"
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wrote 11 months ago: It’s a strange sight: On the mostly nondescript commercial corner of 14th Street and 7th Avenu … more →
Going back in time at the Lucerne Hotel
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wrote 11 months ago: The salmon-pink beaux-arts structure on the corner of 79th Street and Amsterdam Avenue is the Lucern … more →
The original Stuyvesant Town
wrote 11 months ago: Before the 9,000-apartment, red-brick housing development across Fourteenth Street opened in 1947, a … more →
Hudson Street's home for "working girls"
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wrote 1 year ago: It’s 1906. You’re a young woman who has just arrived in New York City. Somehow you find … more →
