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A powerful West Village 9/11 memorial asks us not to forget one young office worker
1+ week, 11+ hour ago (489+ words) On a traffic island at Hudson and Bank Streets is a small dark plaque. Obscured by tree branches, it’s a low-key memorial to a 31-year-old man killed in the Twin Towers on September 11, 2001. “In Memory of David Harlow Rice, World…...
328 West 107th Street and Riverside Drive – Ephemeral New York
1+ week, 13+ hour ago (781+ words) Ever since it officially opened in 1880, Riverside Drive has promised bigness: spacious lots, roomy mansions, and towering prewar apartment houses with expansive views across the Hudson River. So how did this one-story stub of a house end up on the…...
History of pay phones in New York City – Ephemeral New York
2+ week, 11+ hour ago (370+ words) It’s always 1993 at this 4 train stop on Jerome Avenue in the Bronx. That’s where an above-ground station still sports a pay phone on the mezzanine level. Surprisingly, the phone is in decent condition. The cord hasn’t been ripped from the…...
Street names in New York in 18th century – Ephemeral New York
2+ week, 11+ hour ago (488+ words) One of the attractions of walking through the Financial District is realizing how many of these mostly nonconforming, cow path-like streets got their start 400 years ago in the colonial outpost of New Amsterdam. Broadway, Broad Street, Maiden Lane, Wall Street…...
Last phone booth in New York City – Ephemeral New York
2+ week, 11+ hour ago (370+ words) It’s always 1993 at this 4 train stop on Jerome Avenue in the Bronx. That’s where an above-ground station still sports a pay phone on the mezzanine level. Surprisingly, the phone is in decent condition. The cord hasn’t been ripped from the…...
Street names in colonial New York City – Ephemeral New York
2+ week, 11+ hour ago (478+ words) One of the attractions of walking through the Financial District is realizing how many of these mostly nonconforming, cow path-like streets got their start 400 years ago in the colonial outpost of New Amsterdam. Broadway, Broad Street, Maiden Lane, Wall Street…...
Short-lived British Street names in Lower Manhattan – Ephemeral New York
2+ week, 11+ hour ago (488+ words) One of the attractions of walking through the Financial District is realizing how many of these mostly nonconforming, cow path-like streets got their start 400 years ago in the colonial outpost of New Amsterdam. Broadway, Broad Street, Maiden Lane, Wall Street…...
How the British renamed Lower Manhattan – Ephemeral New York
2+ week, 11+ hour ago (488+ words) One of the attractions of walking through the Financial District is realizing how many of these mostly nonconforming, cow path-like streets got their start 400 years ago in the colonial outpost of New Amsterdam. Broadway, Broad Street, Maiden Lane, Wall Street…...
What remained of the Hudson River Yacht Club 1930s
2+ week, 14+ hour ago (908+ words) The clubhouse, once a sportsman’s retreat with a skylit staircase and a rotunda that hosted annual dinners and dances, sits like an empty shell. The second-floor balcony, from which members and guests watched the Regattas and aquatic shows, looks like…...