What a tourist saw on a trip to New York in 1970 — Ephemeral New York
In March 1970, a traveler now living in Rotterdam paid a visit to New York City. Jaap Breedveld was in his 40s at the time. Like many tourists, he took photos that reflect the typical itinerary of a sightseer from overseas, like Times Square (above, with the old Howard Johnson’s at 46th Street on the […]
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Homage to “Manhatta” — For Earth Below
A glorious 1914 tower symbolizes the united city — Ephemeral New York
Manhattan in the late 19th century was running out of space—government office space, to be precise. City Hall, which had been home to New York’s officials and agencies since 1812, was bursting at the seams by the middle of the Gilded Age. In the 1880s, it was clear that the expanding city of more than […]
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Homage to “Manhatta” — For Earth Below
The Greenwich Village vision of artist Alfred Mira — Ephemeral New York
Alfred S. Mira and his realistic, gritty, intimate Greenwich Village street scenes should be better known. [“Seventh Avenue, Greenwich Village”] Born in 1900 in Italy to a carpenter father, he left school and began working for an interior decorator, dreaming of going to art school but without the 50 cents a day it cost to […]
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The artist and scholar gargoyles on 121st Street — Ephemeral New York
Copper bay windows, grand arches, juliet balconies and a sloping roof: As university housing goes, the 8-story Bancroft Apartments are pretty fanciful. Preeminent architect Emery Roth designed the building, which opened at 509 West 121st Street in 1910. By 1920, it had been acquired by Columbia University’s Teachers College, just a block away in the […]
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Gorgeous neon signs illuminating the city — Ephemeral New York
What’s more beautiful than block after block of glowing reds and blues and pinks and yellows, emanating light and heat? These food-oriented neon signs also make you hungry. The Old Homestead sign looks pretty old, though not as old as this steak house (two words!) itself, from 1868. The Donut Pub on 14th Street, a […]
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42d Street 1985 — Black and White Street Photographs of New York City by Matt Weber
Probably took this one at 4am. ©Matt Weber
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The mortar and pestles of a former city pharmacy — Ephemeral New York
Today, 1209 Lexington Avenue is the home of a Warby Parker store, part of the trendy national eyewear chain. But from 1899 to 2012, this was Lascoff Apothecary, a pharmacy on the corner at 82nd Street that was so old-school, they used to sell leeches. Lascoff’s was a New York pharmacy at its finest, the […]
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