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Wednesday, March 17th, 2010A great website just came to my attention. I love this kind of stuff. ScoutingNY.com is just the sort of website that can easily consume a few hours of my time and get me moving around the city to see for myself.
Did you ever wonder how many public housing apartments there are in NYC?
Wednesday, March 17th, 2010Did you ever wonder how many public housing apartments there are in NYC?
A New York Legend…
Friday, March 12th, 2010An old man tottered into the store. He looked every bit like the retired men who live in the apartment house across the street, limping from one social security check to the next wearing the same worn clothes and grizzled visages.
Brooklyn Heights – Mailer, Miller, & Capote all called it home
Friday, March 12th, 2010Brooklyn Heights is one of the most beautiful places to live in New York.
Upper Broadway as a Young Boulevard
Thursday, March 11th, 2010THIRTY years ago, Broadway north of 96th Street was a vibrant but shabby area, its Hispanic groceries and Chinese restaurants mixed with declining Edwardian apartment houses and S.R.O. hotels. Now most of this stretch has turned over a gold-plated leaf.
How Would An Earthquake Impact New York City Apartment Buildings? In
Thursday, March 11th, 2010New York hasn’t had a big earthquake in 126 years, and history suggests that we’re likely to have one every century or two. That said, we’re in little danger of a Chile-level megaquake—but it’s also true that the city’s buildings are vulnerable during even a moderate temblor.
Two sacred words for New Yorkers, “Nathan’s Famous”
Thursday, March 11th, 2010It must be getting close to lunch time. I can smell the aroma of world’s greatest hot dogs and french fries. Real french fries, full of real potato. Not the frozen crap.
This is a real deal. The New York original. Our gift to the world!
So after a day of aparment hunting for the perfect apartment, [...]
This is the New York we love!
Monday, March 8th, 2010Need an egg cream and Belgian fries at 3 a.m.? Then we need to keep stores like Ray’s Candy Store in the East Village open, in spite of the bad economy.
Serious Apartment Porn
Friday, February 26th, 2010It’s in an 1837 landmark townhouse on Washington Square North and it’s a rental. The current tenant has been there 35 years. Oh, the problems some tenants have.
A hidden architectual gem is under City Hall Park.
Friday, February 12th, 2010Three hundred feet south of the Brooklyn Bridge/City Hall stop on the East Side IRT lies an abandoned subway station. Called “the world’s most beautiful former subway station” by Forgotten NY, this station is the City Hall stop that served as in the inaugural launching point for the city’s subway system in 1904.
Were you ever curious to see what Joan Crawford’s NYC apartment looked like?
Friday, February 12th, 2010But it’s an interesting period piece. Kind of shlocky for a woman of her wealth. But there’s something sort of refreshing about her down-to-earth pedestrian furnishings. Take a look here.
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We’ve all heard about the fiasco at Stuyvesant Town/Peter Cooper Village
Thursday, February 11th, 2010Here’s what the residents of Stuyvesant Town/Peter Cooper Village have to say about the collapse of the sale to Tishman Speyer Properties and BlackRock.
Manhattan: Don’t Light Up on Gay Street
Tuesday, July 1st, 2008(photo from the realestsblogspot.com)
Gay Street in Greenwich Village is the city’s shortest street — it’s one block long and kind of private, snug between Christopher St and Waverly Place. Little did I know until I read the July 1, 2008 New York Times that Gay Street is the place to go to build up an [...]
Jersey City: Mark’s Love Affair With Movie Palaces
Tuesday, June 17th, 2008Mark, whose last name is now MCW@RDNYLD (My Co-Worker at RDNY.com’s Listings Dept), sent me more info about old movie theaters. He lives in Jersey City and he loves movie theaters the way I love diners.
Some more info on your post… I love the old movie palaces. The Loew’s you wrote about is around [...]
Manhattan: An Old Building on the East Side
Sunday, June 8th, 2008Mark, my co-worker in the Listings Dept of RDNY.com, likes NYC history as much as I do. I guess he got tired of my fascination with The Grange and he sent me an email with a link to another old house in Manhattan to remind me that Alexander Hamilton’s house is not all that. This [...]
Update: Grange on the Move
Sunday, June 8th, 2008I don’t know why this story interests me so much. Here are 2 more photos from the NY Times of Sunday, June 8, 2008 showing Alexander Hamilton’s country house on the move. My thanks to photographer Andrew Henderson.
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Oldest Houses in NYC
Saturday, June 7th, 2008Seeing photos of Alexander Hamilton’s Grange today got me interested in the finding the oldest houses in each borough. I’ll try to be brief and give you links to official websites.
In Manhattan, the oldest house is the Morris-Jumel House which was briefly the home of Aaron Burr, the man who killed Hamilton. It was built [...]
Manhattan: Home on the Grange
Saturday, June 7th, 2008Alexander Hamilton’s country house, called The Grange, is moving again. It was built in 1802 on what became West 143 St, moved in 1889 to West 141 St, and is currently (Saturday, June 7) rolling down Convent Avenue to its new site at the northwest corner of St. Nicholas Park. I wanted to see this [...]
The People Behind the Traffic Report
Tuesday, April 1st, 2008When I listen to the traffic reports, I always hear the same names: Major Deegan, Van Wike, the Kozkewsko, etc. I’ve always wondered who those people were and how people get big things named after them. I found out that knowing someone helps (no surprise there), and sometimes it helps to be a hero.
Major [...]
The Upside of a Down Economy: Less Condos, More Rentals
Tuesday, March 18th, 2008I don’t want to be depressing, but there’s some bad news about the U.S. economy: The U.S. economy clearly is in a recession. The stock market is down, 63,000 jobs were lost in Feb 2008, there’s a mortgage crisis that’s being felt all around the world, dollar is weak against the Euro and the yen, [...]
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