Posts tagged hamilton heights
“Franco the Great” Gaskin’s “We Fit You to a T” on 125th Street…Hamilton Heights, NY (via Harlem World)
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It’s hard to believe that New York City’s comprehensive (and complicated) subway system all started with a single train line called the Interborough Rapid Transit, or IRT, which began operation on October 27, 1904, running from City Hall up to 145th Street.
Pictured: The scaffolding barely stands inside a newly excavated tunnel in 1900.
see more — New York Subway: Early Days
We Spotted an Elephant on Broadway!
Eighteen whimsical and captivating sculptures by Peter Woytuk will be placed for public view on the Broadway Malls from Columbus Circle to 168th Street - officially opening on October 21st! The Malls are a 5.5 mile-long park that provides a welcome green space from the Upper West Side through Harlem to Washington Heights.
“I wanted to move down the street in an infinite zoom, where these shapes and buildings and structures kept seamlessly regenerating themselves” says Limitless’ director Neil Burger. We got a headache watching this, but agree it’s an amazing, unique view of our city. Take a look and let us know what you think.
CITY BREATHS: Store Front: New York's Disappearing Face
Ideal Hoisery, Grand Street at Ludlow, Manhattan (2004)
Great article at Brainpickings about the displacement that comes with gentrification.
In Store Front: The Disappearing Face of New York, photographer duo James and Karla Murray bring the same lens of retrostalgia to New…
The Neighborhoods of Manhattan.
via Kurt White
How About Some 4th of July Specials?
Try getting a leg-up on the crushing mobs below at rooftop bar Press Lounge, eschewing the view for rare suds at The Vanderbilt, or taking things into your own hands with a picnic box from Landmarc Time Warner. Get ready folks, because it is undeniably party time.
