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An Invisible Piece of Black History in Tribeca
This week, we continue our series of deep dives into the histories of storied addresses. The New York Law School is next door to the high-rise luxury condos at 56 Leonard. In a sliver of space between...
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Off of Tompkins Square Park, a Site of Women’s Tragedy and Agency
This week, we continue our series of deep dives into the histories of storied addresses. 315 East 10th Street. (New York Department of Taxes, Records for Block 404, Lot 48). Elizabeth McCormick and...
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As Farm and Factory, 670 Broadway Was a ‘Rendezvous for the Wealthy Set’
This week, we continue our series of deep dives into the histories of storied addresses. (Photo: Daniel Maurer) At the northeast corner of Broadway and Bond stands a most imperial structure. In 1874,...
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From Grand Pianos to Sign Language, a History of Sound at 237 East 23rd Street
This week, we continue our series of deep dives into the histories of storied addresses. Warehouse used as the PS 47 School Building with the K&B Factory on the right, 1908. At the end of the 19th...
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The Story of Colonnade Row Before the Blue Men Grouped
This week, we continue our series of deep dives into the histories of storied addresses. (Photo: Daniel Maurer) The imposing façade of 434 Lafayette Street, one of the remaining buildings in the...
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For 108 Years, This Bushwick Church Has Paid Witness to Tragedy and...
This week, we continue our series of deep dives into the histories of storied addresses. St. Barbara’s Roman Catholic Church in central Bushwick is one of the only Spanish Mission style churches on the...
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Before It Was a Place to Get Trashed, Warsaw Fought the City’s Garbage Glut
This week, we continue our series of deep dives into the histories of storied addresses. Even by virtue of its two names, the Polish National Home and the Warsaw, the gray bricked, red-trimmed building...
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The Closing of Don Pedro Was the End of an Era (One of Many)
This week, we continue our series of deep dives into the histories of storied addresses. (Photo: Gavin Thomas for NY Mag) When a New York Times reporter caught a horror-themed drag show at Don Pedro in...
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Before Club Cumming and the Nuyorican, the Beer Flowed at a Prohibition-Era...
This week, we continue our series of deep dives into the histories of storied addresses. Mural on the walls of Club Cumming. There’s no sign announcing the name of the establishment on the ground floor...
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Mysterious Disappearances On the Corner of 7A
This week, we continue our series of deep dives into the histories of storied addresses. (Photo by Liz Clayman for NY Mag) The building on the corner of East Seventh Street and Avenue A is painted...
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A Chinatown Church Carries the Flame For a Forgotten Greek Community
This week, we continue our series of deep dives into the histories of storied addresses. St. Barbara Greek Orthodox Church, present day. Greek Orthodox worshippers gathered on Dec. 3 to hear Archbishop...
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An East Williamsburg Church Has Been Home to Germans, Latinos, and Now...
This week, we continue our series of deep dives into the histories of storied addresses. Rev. Rafael Perez leads a prayer at the St. Nicholas Roman Catholic Church on Dec. 9, 2018. On a recent Sunday,...
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America’s Oldest Surviving Mosque Is in Williamsburg
This week, we continue our series of deep dives into the histories of storied addresses. 104 Powers Street. (Photo: Zuha Siddiqui) There’s a building at 104 Powers Street in Williamsburg, an...
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A Castle That Protected Soldiers Struggles to Do the Same For the Homeless
This week, we continue our series of deep dives into the histories of storied addresses. Allen Ross lives in a castle, but it feels more like purgatory. Ross is diabetic, arthritic and schizophrenic...
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From Batters to Battallions: A Brooklyn Armory Sits On Baseball History
This week, we continue our series of deep dives into the histories of storied addresses. Exterior of the armory today. The 47th Regiment Armory on Marcy Avenue has loomed over its neighbors since 1883....
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A Factory That Saw ‘Smoky Skies, Blazing Blasts’ Awaits a New Chapter in...
This week, we continue our series of deep dives into the histories of storied addresses. (Photo: Emily Corona) Sol Graf was a vital-looking 36-year-old Jew in 1966 who, in the company of his wife and...
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After 36 Years, Greenpoint Hospital Emerges From Twilight Sleep
This week, we continue our series of deep dives into the histories of storied addresses. A view of the Greenpoint Hospital complex from across Jackson Street, on the corner with Kingsland Ave. On the...
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Before Essex Crossing, a ‘Temple of Eden’ With an Incendiary History
This week, we continue our series of deep dives into the histories of storied addresses. From Fire and Water Engineering, 1907. The Essex is the tall, glassy residential and commercial building that...
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An ‘Orgy of Brutality’: Police Against Immigrants in the East Village
This week, we continue our series of deep dives into the histories of storied addresses. 29 Avenue A, 1939-1941 New York City Department of Records.The bullet tore through John Muller’s chest just...
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Kidnappers, Quacks, and Go-Go Boys in One of Jared Kushner’s Buildings
This week, we continue our series of deep dives into the histories of storied addresses. Death! Destruction! Dutchmen! The history of one intersection in the East Village features murders, kidnappings,...
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