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Showing posts with label Upper West Side Manhattan. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Upper West Side Manhattan. Show all posts
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...
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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Friday, April 5, 2013

The Upper West Side's "Colonial House" in Color.

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Often referred to as the "Colonial White House",probably because of the columns and the colorof the house, this mansion was impo...
Friday, March 22, 2013

Riverside Drive at looking south from 109th street - nothing lasts forever in this town.

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The future, and temporary Riverside Avenue, as it will be quickly renamed Riverside Drive.  The Drive was under construction while laws...
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Friday, March 15, 2013

Once there was a valley, Clendening Valley.

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I love this print. Look how happy everyone appears to be; the mother with her parasol, the father in his best top hat strolling along hol...
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Thursday, March 7, 2013

West 107th and Riverside and it's connection to a castle up north.

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On December 18th, 1937, the Karlopat Realty Company announced plans to build an apartment house on a rocky little lot at Riverside Dri...
Monday, October 31, 2011

Elm Park, Elmwood, the Apthorpe Estate or as it is known now 91rst and Columbus Avenue.

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This is looking north east from 100th street between Amsterdam and Columbus Avenues. The Ninth Avenue el looms over what is now called Col...
Wednesday, April 13, 2011

The Riviera Theatre

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 The Riviera, behind the orchestra section.  The screen is lit quite possibly by footlights. I have often wondered if they were origin...
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