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A Belated Personal Anniversary I really intended to post this when it was the correct week (I don’t remember the day)…four weeks...
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A Belated Personal Anniversary

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5 days ago
I really intended to post this when it was the correct week (I don’t remember the day)…four weeks ago…but in any case last month marks the 50th anniversary of me starting to commute by subway, in 7th grade. At first it was simply the 7 train to Grand Central for school in east...
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The Astor Building 2 Keeping on with the construction photos of the St. Regis Hotel under its temporary name “the Astor...
1st Sep 2026
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The Astor Building 2

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1st Sep 2026
Keeping on with the construction photos of the St. Regis Hotel under its temporary name “the Astor Building”… Unlike my previous dive into the construction photos of the Equitable Trust Building on Broad Street, the main sequence photos here (which are numbered and dated) begin...
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It Looked Familiar: A Promotion From an indie comic called “Bit Torment” – not really my taste, but that’s just an opinion – a view...
1st Aug 2026
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It Looked Familiar: A Promotion

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1st Aug 2026
From an indie comic called “Bit Torment” – not really my taste, but that’s just an opinion – a view of the Regency Spire, which houses the World Parliament: From Carol Highsmith, a view of the south facade of the Empire State Building:
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Proto-Modernist, Two Ways I doubt I’ll ever run out of blog fodder because of what happened with this photo: I’ve walked by...
1st Jul 2026
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Proto-Modernist, Two Ways

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1st Jul 2026
I doubt I’ll ever run out of blog fodder because of what happened with this photo: I’ve walked by 135 Hudson Street many times, but I finally remembered to take a picture. You don’t see something like this every day. The simple facts: it’s a warehouse completed in 1886, facing...
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Two Views, Both Not Quite Photographs From a 1902 postcard, a profile view of the Brooklyn Bridge (with bonus Fulton ferry) and a smaller...
1st Jun 2026
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Two Views, Both Not Quite Photographs

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1st Jun 2026
From a 1902 postcard, a profile view of the Brooklyn Bridge (with bonus Fulton ferry) and a smaller view of the walkway. If you know the bridge well, as I do, the promenade view is actually quite accurate, but I suspect it’s a little bit difficult to parse for people who haven’t...
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Equitable on Broad Street 8 This series of blog posts may end up taking longer than the actual construction of the Equitable...
1st May 2026
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Equitable on Broad Street 8

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1st May 2026
This series of blog posts may end up taking longer than the actual construction of the Equitable building, but I feel like it’s not often we get to see such thorough documentation of the construction technology of a moment in time. I’m going to switch gears today from the...
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Multimodal From 1911, a much-worn postcard showing Park Row: City Hall is off to the left, amongst the trees;...
1st Apr 2026
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Multimodal

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1st Apr 2026
From 1911, a much-worn postcard showing Park Row: City Hall is off to the left, amongst the trees; the big stone building on the right is the old New York Times headquarters, although the Times had moved uptown to Longacre Square, renamed after them, seven years earlier. The...
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Where It Comes From I’ve written about the Whitehall Building and its extension enough that there’s not much to say...
1st Mar 2026
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Where It Comes From

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1st Mar 2026
I’ve written about the Whitehall Building and its extension enough that there’s not much to say about it for this new (to me) picture: The buildings were a little isolated from the main downtown skyscraper cluster by being so far southwest, but it’s a five-minute walk to...
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It Looked Familiar: Contrast In Gotham, a cathedral surrounded by skyscrapers: In New York, a cathedral surrounded by...
1st Feb 2026
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It Looked Familiar: Contrast

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1st Feb 2026
In Gotham, a cathedral surrounded by skyscrapers: In New York, a cathedral surrounded by skyscrapers, albeit without a crossing tower:
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Hidden In Plain Sight I was on Roosevelt Island a few weeks ago and got some nice pictures of the Queensboro Bridge. The...
1st Dec 2025
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Hidden In Plain Sight

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1st Dec 2025
I was on Roosevelt Island a few weeks ago and got some nice pictures of the Queensboro Bridge. The Queensboro is an outlier among New York City’s bridges in several ways: it’s a cantilever truss, it’s asymmetrical, and it doesn’t clear-span the river it crosses. The Queensboro...
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