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May 2021 The Classic Eight Apartment
To accompany this month's article on The Cherokee Apartments, let's take a peek inside this fantastic pre war building. These apartment...
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Mar 13, 20211 min read
April 2021 The Classic Eight Apartment
The Dakota Apartments (see The Ghosts of the Dakota) presence looms large over Central Park West affording its residences magnificent...
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Feb 28, 20215 min read
The Incredible Inspiration for Artist Stan Douglas's Penn Station's Half Century
Moynihan Train Hall Ticketed Waiting Room with Stan Douglas's artwork via their website With the opening of the Moynihan Train Hall in...
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Feb 21, 20211 min read
March 2021 The Classic Eight Apartment
Located in an Emery Roth designed building, this apartment is a bright three bedroom apartment with beautiful pre-war details, high...
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Jan 30, 20215 min read
The Hendrik Hudson Apartments and Rip Van Winkle
This is the third in a series inspired by The New York Public Library's Digital Collection's The World's Loose Leaf Album of Apartment...
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Jan 30, 20214 min read
Mark Twain's Gilded Age Birthday Dinner at Delmonico's
Mark Twain was a liar or maybe he would prefer to be called a fabulist. He enjoyed weaving tales and was good at it. Twain wrote some of...
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Jan 29, 20211 min read
February 2021 The Classic Eight Apartment
This Classic Eight (turned into a seven) is on the Upper East Side on 79th Street. Located in the Hendrik Hudson Apartments (check out...
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Jan 24, 20214 min read
Lost on Madison Avenue - Tiffany Studios and The Roosevelt Hotel
Madison Avenue is famous. How famous do you say? Well, in the 1984 film "Splash", a mermaid chose Madison as her human name while walking...
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Jan 16, 20214 min read
The Strange and Sordid History of The Ansonia
This is the second in a series inspired by The New York Public Library's Digital Collection's The World's Loose Leaf Album of Apartment...
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Jan 14, 20213 min read
The Heisman Trophy and the Lost Downtown Athletic Club
The Heisman Memorial Trophy was displayed in the lobby of the Downtown Athletic Club in the late 20th Century. Every year, on a certain...
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Jan 10, 20214 min read
The Loss of Pier 54 and RMS Titanic
"TITANIC SINKS FOUR HOURS AFTER HITTING AN ICEBERG" was the headline from The New York Times on April 16, 1912. One of the worst...
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Jan 2, 20215 min read
The Amazing Apthorp Apartments
This is the first in a series inspired by The New York Public Library's Digital Collection's The World's Loose Leaf Album of Apartment...
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Dec 30, 20205 min read
The Tragic Lost of Penn Station and The Reimagined Moynihan Train Hall
The romance and beauty of Penn Station would make anyone be wistful for the past. The Pennsylvania Railroad built a monumental train...
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Dec 28, 20203 min read
Rosario Candela's One Sutton Place South - A Very Brief History
New York Public Library Digital Collection One Sutton Place South, with its limestone-clad exterior and marvelous triple-arched entrance,...
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Dec 24, 20201 min read
January 2021 The Classic Eight Apartment
This amazing apartment is in One Sutton Place (see Rosario Candela's One Sutton Place South- A Very Brief History). It might not be a...
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Dec 24, 20203 min read
Lost Gallo Opera House (and reborn as Studio 54)
Theaters in New York City have been built and leveled many times over its long history. Some theaters were saved from the wrecking ball...
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Dec 20, 20203 min read
A Look Back: Langston Hughes and the Harlem Renaissance
James Mercer Langston Hughes was an American poet and writer. He was born in the early part of the 20th Century and lived to see the...
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Dec 10, 20201 min read
December 2020 The Classic Eight Apartment
This dazzling apartment is located in the Kenilworth Building on the Upper West Side. Incredible views of Central Park...check! 10 foot...
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Dec 10, 20204 min read
The Lost Madison Square Gardens
Have you ever heard of Madison Square Garden? You probably have...famous concerts, sporting events, and even political conventions have...
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Dec 4, 20202 min read
Rosario Candela and 960 5th Avenue
During his career, Rosario Candela designed 82 apartment buildings in New York City. These dwellings, built mostly in the 1920s, were...
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