Berenice Abbott, for her “Changing New York” project, took this picture of a firehouse in December 1935. She labelled it as “Park Avenue and East 135th Street” but it’s a little more complicated than that, since that location is where those two streets end at the Harlem River. Most of the avenues continue over bridges …
I’ve been reading Buried Beneath the City: An Archaeological History of New York. There’s some of the usual content you expect in a book on historical archaeology – that is, archaeology performed not on the distant past as the word archaeology suggests, but on eras for which we have historical records – including discussion of …
I was in Jersey City last week. From a distance, those geese look pretty or, depending on your taste, delicious. Anyone who’s worked on rooftops knows that, up close, they are vicious and possibly demented dinosaurs, looking to kill you.
Courtesy of Marvel Comics, that’s She-Hulk (in her more-ordinary Jen Walters form) and the Jack of Hearts (don’t ask) strolling over Bow Bridge in Central Park. Here’s a roughly similar view, from the 1984 HABS survey, before two rounds of restoration work (one of them OSE’s):
The photo above is from the HABS survey of an abandoned Armour & Company plant in Providence, Rhode Island. The building was a warehouse and factory for meat products, and had some mildly interesting Moderne architectural touches. It was abandoned, vandalized, and then demolished. I chose the picture for the nice view of the big …
