Pick Your Poison
An apartment house in Greenwich Village, looking rather outer-boroughish: Something funny at the corner…oh, it’s a whole bunch of cell
It Looked Familiar: Pointy
Batman strikes a pose with a skyscraper in the background: I was walking down Lexington Avenue and thought to myself
Once Incredibly Common
The fact that I have to explain what this is would have astonished New Yorkers of the late nineteenth century.
More Contrasty Stuff
From 1908, “Lower Manhattan from Governors Island – The City of Skyscrapers – Made possible by the development of the
Tracing The Info
A minor example of a common trail for building research: Starting with a Wurts Brothers photo of a street… Note
The Astor Building 9
This series ends here – neither with a bang nor a whimper – at the end of the sequence of
Attribution
Various streets in the outer boroughs used to be roads for long-distance (as defined in the seventeenth or eighteenth centuries)
Fooled Ya
The east side of Broadway, just above Houston Street: On the right, an obviously modern building. On the left, a
Unexpected Beauty
A random two-story commercial building in Queens, with a big chimney for its boiler flue: Closer: It took amazingly little
The Name Is A Hint
A name that you don’t hear used much anymore is “The Great White Way” for the showy part of Broadway,
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