Tag: history
Pre-email, stamps and stamp collecting were a big thing. Avid collectors, whether they were 12-year olds or their much older relatives, took this hobby seriously. The passion came along with …
Eleanor Roosevelt relaxes against a boulder, her back to Riverside Park as she overlooks West 72nd Street and Riverside Drive. She is deep in thought. What is this bronzed Eleanor …
Buildings rich in history aren’t hard to find on the UWS. Maybe you’re reading because you’re a big architecture buff. Or maybe you’re just hoping your search for Upper West …
The Silver Palette was a super sophisticated gourmet shop when it opened on the Upper West Side 44 years ago. The culinary innovations, captured in its cookbook, are still cool …
Using little more than some rope and a dash of agility, a small gang of beach bums headed by a crook known as “Murf the Surf” (or “Murph the Surf”) …
It might be hard to imagine Columbus Circle before it became the glass-building-filled intersection that it is today. But we’re going to take a trip back in time … from …
In a month termed by the New York Times as “too hot for Satan,” the bloated body of 33-year-old David Kammerer surfaced in the Hudson River near West 108th Street …
Memories are frequently prompted by chance, but some items are also deliberately acquired as souvenirs, the English adaptation of the French word “remember.” Associations with a particular location, a building, for …
In the early 1980s, John Lintz was part of a team of electricians who worked in the building. Throughout the course of their work, John had the opportunity to get …
The four-story building on the corner of 84th Street and Broadway looks distinctly modern. The Broadway Fashion Building, located at 2315 Broadway, is constructed almost entirely of glass and metal, …
