Author Don Friedman Published on: March 26, 2024 Tags Blog The Power of Drawing Another Cass Gilbert sketch, “Looking west from corner 5th ave + 42nd St”, from June 1917. Based on the angle,
Author Don Friedman Published on: March 25, 2024 Tags Blog Doodling In A Hotel A remarkable sketch by Cass Gilbert from July 1933: From left to right, the Dom Tower in Utrecht (fourteenth-century, 368
Author Don Friedman Published on: March 24, 2024 Tags Blog It Looked Familiar: Like A Movie Set First, a panel from “The Bat-Man – First Knight,” an alternate telling of the Batman story, set in 1939: Second,
Author Don Friedman Published on: March 23, 2024 Tags Blog It Looked Familiar: A Project Jessica Drew, in her Spider-Woman gear, visits Belvedere Castle. It’s reasonably clear that in the frame on the right she’s
Author Don Friedman Published on: March 22, 2024 Tags Blog Too Perfect Yet another view of lower Broadway, this time from 1908. It’s low resolution and artificially colored, so it’s really more
Author Don Friedman Published on: March 21, 2024 Tags Blog The Back Side I’ve discussed the old Croton Distributing Reservoir several times before. It was the southernmost visible part of New York’s first
Author Don Friedman Published on: March 20, 2024 Tags Blog History From Afar This is a fantastic, if weirdly inaccurate, map from 1840. It was, according to the text at the bottom, “Published
Author Don Friedman Published on: March 19, 2024 Tags Blog Overgrowth It’s worth taking a look at two pictures of Newspaper Row/Printing House Square. First, around 1900: Second, 1936, from Berenice
Author Don Friedman Published on: March 18, 2024 Tags Blog A Deservedly Unknown Truss There’s a street bridge over the Hudson Line (the former main line of the New York Central Railroad) tracks just
Author Don Friedman Published on: March 17, 2024 Tags Blog Travelog: Far From Home Traveling to another country usually gets you views of a built environment that is in some respects fundamentally different than
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