A Weird Angle That Does Not Help
From around 1910, the Valentine & Sons Publishing Company gives us “Battery Park” as a postcard: It took me a
Another Moment Of Transition
From Max Hubacher, March 1950, “Brooklyn Bridge”: We’re looking west from the Manhattan approach, a bit west of the Manhattan
Last Night
My thanks to whomever shot and posted this footage, probably Mr. Rabinowitz: For reference, 1883:
History And Simultaneity
A partial list… A long time ago, before written history, people started spinning plates. It’s our job to keep them
Two Hundred and Fifty Plus, 9
Our last pre-revolution building, for the last day before July 4, 2026, is one that just made it before the
Proving Him Wrong
A long time ago, Brendan Behan said that New York was “a place where you’re least likely to be bitten
Proto-Modernist, Two Ways
I doubt I’ll ever run out of blog fodder because of what happened with this photo: I’ve walked by 135
High-Visibility Low-Visibility
I’ve mentioned before that our work is usually invisible in completed projects. With a few exceptions you generally can’t even
Two Hundred and Fifty Plus, 8
The oldest religious building in New York, the Friends Meeting House in Flushing, was originally constructed in 1694, and greatly
Translation
While I’m playing with that more-than-hundred-year-old management book…how to reproduce drawings: It occurs to me that most people reading this
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