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Lower East Side loft! $1150/month!
The rent for these big duplex lofts (Spiral staircase! Full kitchen!) sounds pretty cheap today. But in July 1984, when this ad ran in the East Village Eye, wouldn’t $1150 and $1300 a month be k… more →
Ephemeral New York
Lower East Side loft! $1150/month!
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wildnewyork wrote 1 week ago: The rent for these big duplex lofts (Spiral staircase! Full kitchen!) sounds pretty cheap today. But … more →
Whatever happened to Hog Island?
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wildnewyork wrote 1 month ago: A mile-long spit of land that surfaced off the coast of the Rockaways in the mid-1800s, Hog Island e … more →
When Miss Rheingold ruled New York City
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wildnewyork wrote 1 month ago: Miss Harlem. Miss subways. Miss Brooklyn. The list of long-gone local beauty contests is filled with … more →
A Brooklyn art exhibit for the Statue of Liberty
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wildnewyork wrote 1 month ago: Too bad this poster doesn’t provide any details on what, exactly, was being exhibited by this … more →
An escort service's 1980s New Wave ad
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wildnewyork wrote 2 months ago: Ads for escort agencies based in New York City never seem to feature women who actually look like th … more →
Riverside Drive's Hendrik Hudson apartments
wildnewyork wrote 2 months ago: From a publication called The World’s New York Apartment House Album comes this sketch and des … more →
Smut on the big screen in 1970
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wildnewyork wrote 3 months ago: Before Times Square theaters (and others scattered around the city) began routinely showing triple-X … more →
The short-lived "Robotorium" of Mott Street
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wildnewyork wrote 4 months ago: What in the world did they do or sell at the Robotorium? In the early 1980s, it occupied a small sto … more →
Some very faded vintage advertisements
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wildnewyork wrote 4 months ago: These three white-on-red brick ads are especially tough to decipher because one, if not all, of the … more →
New York City's long list of defunct newspapers
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wildnewyork wrote 4 months ago: It’s hard to believe that in the 1890s, New York’s population of just a million and a ha … more →
Crossing the Atlantic on the Red Star Line
wildnewyork wrote 5 months ago: Red Star Line steamships traveled from Belgium to New York and Philadelphia from 1871 until the 1930 … more →
Just another busy day on Park Avenue
wildnewyork wrote 5 months ago: North of 42nd Street, Park Avenue is a pretty, orderly street practically glowing in vibrant shades … more →
Taking a steamer from the Franklin Street pier
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wildnewyork wrote 5 months ago: This 1920s or 1930s poster—check out the ancient four-digit phone prefix!—advertises a day trip up t … more →
"The Great Eagle" of New York's Yiddish Theater
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wildnewyork wrote 5 months ago: In the 1880s, lower Second Avenue became kind of a Jewish Broadway. As great waves of Eastern Europe … more →
Who's playing at the Peppermint Lounge?
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wildnewyork wrote 5 months ago: Echo & the Bunnymen! Public Image Ltd! The July 1982 lineup at early-80s rock club Peppermint Lo … more →
A Brooklyn company's Art Deco ad
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wildnewyork wrote 6 months ago: From a 1930s New Yorker comes this advertisement for liverwurst hors d’oeuvres. Mmm, sounds li … more →
The Great Coney Island Water Carnival
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wildnewyork wrote 6 months ago: Swimmers, sensational high divers, log rollers, and others—brought to you by Barnum & Bailey, of … more →
The great Pierre Hotel robbery of 1972
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wildnewyork wrote 6 months ago: The Pierre, on Fifth Avenue and 61st Street, has always been at the top of the New York city luxury … more →
Shopping at Flip in the 1980s
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wildnewyork wrote 6 months ago: Splatter T-shirts! Tank tops! Skirts with geometrical patterns! Flip was early-80s cool clothing hea … more →
