Thursday, October 20, 2011

LeBrun's 1888 Engine Company 54 -- 304 West 47th Street

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photo by Alice Lum Napoleon LeBrun achieved the advantageous position as official architect for the New York City Fire Department in 1879...
Wednesday, October 19, 2011

No. 12 West 23rd Street -- the Scene of the Crime

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West 23 rd Street near Madison Square was a most fashionable residential street in 1870.  Here at No. 12 the wealthy stockbroker Benja...
Tuesday, October 18, 2011

Jonathan Allen's Quaint 1871 Stable -- 148 East 40th Street

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photo by Alice Lum On January 7, 1871, the Real Estate Record and Builder’s Guide announced plans for a “one four-story Dorchester ston...
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Monday, October 17, 2011

The Gertrude Stein Statue -- Bryant Park

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photo NYC Parks Department In November 22, 1931 American writer and photographer Carl Van Vechten wrote a letter from his apartment at 1...
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Saturday, October 15, 2011

The 1868 11th Street Methodist Episcopal Chapel - No. 545 East 11th St.

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photo by Alice Lum In the years following the end of the Civil War the area around Tompkins Square on the lower east side of Manhattan w...
Friday, October 14, 2011

Hardenbergh's 1889 Nos. 1340-1350 Lexington Avenue and No. 121-123 E. 89th Street

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Until the middle of the 19th Century, wealthy New Yorkers not only lived in the city, but built elegant country estates in the rural north ...
Thursday, October 13, 2011

The Lost 1868 Central Park Garden

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The original building supports the large sign.  Central Park is just off the frame to the right, across 59th Street. -- photo NYPL Collect...