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Showing posts with label NYC tours. Show all posts
Showing posts with label NYC tours. Show all posts
Wednesday, December 10, 2014

Another One Bites the Dust - Another Slaughtered Lamb, Another McElfatrick Disappers Into Oblivion

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Back In August of 2013 I put up a piece about a theater.  It was announced that yet another piece of our puzzle, mosaic, history or whatever...
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Wednesday, April 2, 2014

Another BEFORE IT IS GONE Situation

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What is cheaper than a billboard to show your wares?  The side of a building.  This is 8th Avenue and 46th street early in March of 2014. ...
Friday, March 28, 2014

REMAINS OF THE ROAD

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How many times have you walked the block on 102nd street between Broadway and Amsterdam and noticed 202 West 102nd and the odd angle it ta...
Wednesday, March 26, 2014

The Watt's House on 139th Street

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This looks like small town anywhere U.S.A.  Once upon a time, a good deal of Manhattan could pass for a place where you could expect...
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Friday, March 21, 2014

THE NEW PROBLEM AND AN OLD SOLUTION

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Once upon a time, in the 1980's, the ubiquitous corner market reared its head and became the thing we all dreaded when an older business...
Tuesday, January 21, 2014

Loew's 83rd - not 84th - a lost Thomas Lamb treasure on the Upper Westside

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Opening in September 1921, the 2633 seat 83rd Street Theatre was part of built at the same time as Loew’s State in Time...
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Tuesday, December 17, 2013

Appalachian or Harlem Farmhouse? Regardless of the condition, the tenements inthe background should give it away.

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Once upon a time, on the isle of Manahatta, amongst the somewhere between 300 and 1200 Lenape who made what would become some of...
Monday, December 16, 2013

What is this, looks like a wine cellar. It is not.

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Is it a medieval prison or a wine cellar under some villa in Tuscany?  The brick work is very middle 19th century so we can rule out ...