I expect much of the east to be effectively shut down today: snow followed by rain followed by freezing temperatures is a recipe for a lot of ice. Martin Luther King Jr. Day is already relatively lacking in public events compared to our other national holidays, and this storm is not going to improve that …
A nice view from the ferry landing at the foot of Old Fulton Street. There’s been a ferry landing here since the mid-1600s; this was the route that Robert Fulton used for his steam ferry in 1814. (And got his name on the two streets at either end of the route as a memorial.) The …
How long does it take traffic to wear cast iron like that? It definitely says “SEWER” and if I had to guess I’d say the date is 1881, but it could be an ornate 9 in “1891” and might look the same. In any case, well over 100 years and the cast-in lettering is going …
The picture above is from a graphic novel called Noir Burlesque, a gangster story set in New York around 1950. The Hotel Astor on the left, facing Times Square, is famous, and we’ve got a glimpse of one of the towers of Rockefeller Center on the far right, but what is that weirdness covering the …
The Times had moved to the new building a year earlier; New Year’s wouldn’t be marked with a ball drop until 1907. But the paper certainly wasn’t above advertising itself and the recent renaming of Longacre Square. The use of a large photo like that on the front page was still rare at the time.
