Author Don Friedman Published on: March 30, 2024 Tags Blog It Looked Familiar: Popular The City Hall Station on the IRT Lexington Avenue Line – a station that’s been abandoned since 1945 – is
Author Don Friedman Published on: March 28, 2024 Tags Blog Slow Death Of An Unneeded Building A lot of rail was built in and around New York in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, much
Author Don Friedman Published on: March 27, 2024 Tags Blog The Right Angle I’m not working on any of the buildings in this photo, but if I were… Raking sunlight is a fantastic
Author Don Friedman Published on: March 26, 2024 Tags Blog The Power of Drawing Another Cass Gilbert sketch, “Looking west from corner 5th ave + 42nd St”, from June 1917. Based on the angle,
Author Don Friedman Published on: March 25, 2024 Tags Blog Doodling In A Hotel A remarkable sketch by Cass Gilbert from July 1933: From left to right, the Dom Tower in Utrecht (fourteenth-century, 368
Author Don Friedman Published on: March 24, 2024 Tags Blog It Looked Familiar: Like A Movie Set First, a panel from “The Bat-Man – First Knight,” an alternate telling of the Batman story, set in 1939: Second,
Author Don Friedman Published on: March 23, 2024 Tags Blog It Looked Familiar: A Project Jessica Drew, in her Spider-Woman gear, visits Belvedere Castle. It’s reasonably clear that in the frame on the right she’s
Author Don Friedman Published on: March 22, 2024 Tags Blog Too Perfect Yet another view of lower Broadway, this time from 1908. It’s low resolution and artificially colored, so it’s really more
Author Don Friedman Published on: March 21, 2024 Tags Blog The Back Side I’ve discussed the old Croton Distributing Reservoir several times before. It was the southernmost visible part of New York’s first
Author Don Friedman Published on: March 20, 2024 Tags Blog History From Afar This is a fantastic, if weirdly inaccurate, map from 1840. It was, according to the text at the bottom, “Published
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