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Showing posts with label modernist architecture. Show all posts
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Friday, August 15, 2025

The Painting Industry Building - 45 West 14th Street

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  Although West 14th Street would not be lined with handsome brick and brownstone mansions until the 1840s, at least one business catered to...
Monday, December 4, 2023

The Lost East Side Airline Terminal - First Avenue and 37th Street

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  The Manhattan Post Card Publishing Co. produced this image of the newly-completed terminal in 1953. At mid-century, the Airlines Terminal ...
Wednesday, September 18, 2013

Paul Rudolph's Masterful No. 246 East 58th Street

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photo courtesy PRF The Upper East Side was slowly developing during the Civil War years.   East 58 th Street, between Second and Thir...
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Born in Dayton, Ohio, I relocated to New York city in 1978. An author, blogger, lecturer and historian, I have written the histories of more than 5,000 locations in Manhattan (as of March 2025). I am the author of "Seeking New York" and "Seeking Chicago," and contributed to several other books, and consulted for pieces in Architectural Digest, The New York Times, and similar publications..
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