Town house, now museum. Late C15 and late C16, severely restored 1858, following drawing of 1769. Timber-frame and with plaster infill; rubble plinth; tile roof with rubble stacks. 4-unit plan. 2 storeys with attic; 4-window range. The facade to the right half is mostly C19 replacing c1800 brick refronting. 3 …
Tabernacle of Prayer, Jamaica Avenue, Jamaica, Queens, New York City, New York, United States Located on Jamaica Avenue at Merrick Boulevard in Jamaica, the major commercial center of the borough of Queens and once a major theater center for Queens and Long Island, the Loew’s Valencia is the borough’s largest …
Note: this photo was published in an undated (Oct 2010) Everyblock NYC zipcodes blog titled "." ************************************** Wikipedia that the 96th Street subway station, right across the street from my apartment building, "was part of the original IRT subway and opened on the inaugural date …
Part one of two! Inspired by Brand New’s song Bed. My head is lead I don’t ever want to go to bed Your hair is on fire You snuff the blaze Turn to vapour and you float away We got into a bad fight Laid her on the bed My …
I had a rare business trip to NYC on Tuesday, with a client meeting on the swanky Upper East Side at the even swankier Lowell Hotel. I was with an employee of the client and we had to get in a rushed lunch in this incredibly posh neighborhood. I vetoed …
St Andrew, Halstead, Essex There is documentary evidence of a church having existed on this site in the reign of King John, 1199 – 1216; but the greater part of the present church – Nave, North and South Aisles and Chancel – date from the early years of the fourteenth …
Sunset Park, Brooklyn, New York City, New York, United States The Sunset Play Center is one of a group of eleven immense outdoor swimming pools opened in the summer of 1936 in a series of grand ceremonies presided over by Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia and Park Commissioner Robert Moses. All of …
Wanting you tha way I do I only want to be with you And I would go to the ends of the earth Cause, darling, to me that’s you’re worth Where you lead, I will follow Anywhere that you tell me to If you need, you need me to be …
Upper West Side, Manhattan, New York City, New York, United States The Normandy Apartments is one of the most outstanding apartment buildings on Manhattan’s Upper West Side. A large eighteen-story (with nineteenth-story penthouse) twin-towered structure overlooking the Hudson River, it dominates the vista of Riverside Drive. Designed by Emery Roth, …