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The Queens County Farm Museum is the oldest continually operated farm in the state. Dating back to 1697, the space is as much farm as it is museum. Preserved alongside the fields and rows of corn is a way of life foreign to most New Yorkers.
There is a lesson to be learned from the new show at the Museum of the City of New York. Titled: “The Greatest Grid: The Master Plan of Manhattan, 1811-2011″, you get a black and white example of why future city planning is so important to New York City.
Visit this wonderful resource maintained by the Transit Authority on everything to do with the subways.
New Yorkers have always needed to get around town – especially when they need to find a great no fee apartment rental.
Closed since 1940 and hiding at 5 Beekman Street, these photos will bring you back in time to another world, where detail and ornamentation were at their height.
Though the heated eviction battle over the Carnegie Hall studios is over, not all of the former tenants are ready to forget about their longtime homes.
I began the blog because I was incensed and alarmed at what the city was becoming. It was losing its grit, its fabric, its very character. It was losing its New York-ness, and gaining nothing but Subway franchises and luxury condos.
I\’ve always wanted to get to know some of the small shops, boutiques, restaurants, and food provisioners in Brooklyn better. But who has all that time? There are just too many fun and interesting places to visit.
If were were going to write a new guide to Harlem, this is the guide we\’d try to write. But the good folks at DesignSpongeonline.com have done if for us.
Apartment 3E at 142 West 109th Street looks like a pretty straightforward New York City apartment. It’s a one-bedroom third-floor walk-up with a windowless office and only a little corner to call a kitchen. It has exposed brick walls and wood floors. It’s a couple of blocks to the subway.
For those lucky enough to live there, 51st St. between Third Ave. and the East River is a tiny bastion of
hidden corners, relaxation, elegant Manhattan and budding nightlife. The dead end above the FDR Drive is as pretty as any street stopping point in the city.
Wakefield, the Bronx neighborhood around the 241st Street stop and one of the northernmost places in the city, shares more than a little suburban character with its neighbor across the border.
Which brings me to his latest gem of a find. It\’s a must visit. The New York Public Library has a wonderful digital collection, arranged in galleries. The breadth and scope of the collection is amazing and eclectic. But let\’s explore, just for a few moments, the collection called, \” \”Classic Six: \”New York City Apartment Building Living, 1880s-1910s\”\”
A 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?
Brooklyn Heights is one of the most beautiful places to live in New York.
THIRTY 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.
New 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.
It 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, do yourself a…
Need 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.
It\’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.
Three 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.
But 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.
Here\’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.
(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 appetite. I\’ve been to…
Mark, 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 the corner from where I…
Mark, 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 is a little-known old house…
I 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.