CHISUM PLACE, Harlem

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Chisum Place is a one-block street running between West 141st and West 142nd streets just west of 5th Avenue in Harlem. It was constructed in the late 1950s between the two streets when the Delano Village housing project was built; all three streets are two-way, and in Chisum Place’s case it’s unusual for a one-block [...]

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UPPER FIFTH AVENUE, Harlem: Part 2

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Continued from Part 1 Washington and Madison Squares. The King of All Buildings. St. Patrick’s Cathedral. Tiffany & Co. The east end of Central Park. The Plaza Hotel. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. The Guggenheim Museum. The Museum of the City of New York. Captain Jack McCarthy and the St. Patrick’s Day Parade. Classic lampposts. [...]

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WHITEHALL SUBWAY MOSAIC

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Seen at regular intervals along the walls at the Whitehall Street BMT subway station serving R trains, the first or last in Manhattan depending on your direction, are these terra cotta depictions of a white mansion, with the Hudson River in the background, a sailing ship at left, and a wide lawn in front. Obviously [...]

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WALL STREET, Bushwick

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Today, Manhattan (Financial District) and Staten Island (St. George) have Wall Streets, but Brooklyn no longer does. A street sign at Broadway and Arion Place, a couple of blocks north of Myrtle Avenue, reminds us of when Brooklyn did have a Wall Street.   On Arion Place between Broadway and Bushwick Avenue is the hulk [...]

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TRINITY BUILDING SUBWAY ENTRANCE, Financial District

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Just north of Trinity Churchyard at Broadway and Wall Street  is the Trinity Building, designed along with the U.S. Realty Building next door, by Francis Kimball and constructed from 1904-1907 to complement Trinity Church. According to the NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission, “Their construction necessitated the relocation of Thames Street and the construction of caissons 80 [...]

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AMERICAN BANK NOTE BUILDING, Hunt’s Point

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It looks like I’ll be spending some time in the Port Morris-Hunt’s Point areas in the Bronx, since a new pedestrian/bike bridge has opened spanning the Bronx Kill between the mainland and Randall’s Island. Until then, here’s a photo of the American Bank Note Building seen from Bruckner Boulevard and Tiffany Street. From the ForgottenBook: This fortress-like [...]

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OMEGA OIL, Harlem

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Every couple of years, when I’m in the neighborhood, I skulk around to a 5-story walkup apartment building at #287 West 147th Street between Adam Claton Powell and Frederick Douglass Boulevards, or as they were formerly named, 7th and 8th Avenues. The building faces a parking lot for the NYPD Service Area 6, which leaves [...]

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UPPER FIFTH AVENUE, Harlem: Part 1

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Washington and Madison Squares. The King of All Buildings. St. Patrick’s Cathedral. Tiffany & Co. The east end of Central Park. The Plaza Hotel. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. The Guggenheim Museum. The Museum of the City of New York. Captain Jack McCarthy and the St. Patrick’s Day Parade. Classic lampposts. When you think of [...]

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102nd STREET SIGN, Upper West Side

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Most street signs that appear on corner buildings are functional and nonesthetic at best, but this one above the Mexican Festival restaurant at the SE corner of Broadway and 102nd has a flair and panache that separate it from the rest. (Hey, that rhymes.) There’s some orthographic history here too — this sign points out [...]

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110th STREET TAPESTRIES

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I did not include the 110th Street station at Central Park North, serving #2 and #3 trains, on my Original 28 subway survey of a few years ago — because while those Original 28 opened on October 27, 1904, this 110th Street station, along with most of the other #2 and #3 stations running up [...]

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B46 BUS STOP, Williamsburg

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One of the earliest efforts by the Transit Authority (today’s MTA) to provide signage indicating bus routes were these very simple white signs showing the route number in large type and the routes with black lines; these first appeared in the 1960s. Today, most bus stops have route indicators in large, round signs with expected [...]

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PHILLY FIRE ALARM, Northern Liberties

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When I am out of town I carry on just the same way I do while in NYC — I notice ancient infrastructure, such as this rusted fire alarm at Spring Garden and North 3rd Streets in Philly, produced by the Superior American Fire Alarm & Signal Co., likely in the 1910s or 1920s. Alas, [...]

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STATEN ISLAND SIGNAGE

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photo: Stephen Gembara I don’t remember much about my very young childhood prior to age 6 or so but I do remember streetlamps and street signs. A friend has this surprisingly pristine pair in his collection. When my parents and I would take bus rides out to Staten Island most of the street signs looked [...]

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LINCOLN SAVINGS BANK, Bay Ridge

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I was in Bay Ridge for a dental appointment when I once again passed the huge bank building at 5th Avenue and Bay Ridge Parkway (called by all Bay Ridgeites “75th Street”) when I recalled that I had been past this building likely thousands of times without going inside, while I resided in Bay Ridge [...]

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ASTORIA to JACKSON HEIGHTS

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One weekday there was a slight break from the blazing heat of July 2015 (as it turned out August and September were even more blazing) and I decided to walk some of the northern reaches of Astoria through to northern Jackson Heights, where I had not been for a few years. I didn’t to to [...]

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AMERICAN REFRACTORIES, Clinton Hill

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Taaffe Place runs for a few blocks in Clinton Hill between Flushing and DeKalb Avenues, wedged between Classon and Kent. It’s pronounced “taf” as far as I know, and is actually an Irish surname, an Irish transliteration of the Welsh equivalent of David (Dafydd), the patron saint of Wales. #159 is an odd bird just [...]

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QUEENS SUPREME COURT, Jamaica

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For the first time in about 12 years I was called in for jury duty last week (October 2015). In the past, I’ve had to go to the Queens County Criminal Court building next to Queens Borough Hall in Kew Gardens, but the last couple of times I have gone to the new Civil Court [...]

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GRIMM BUILDING, Upper West Side

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You don’t see a lot of woodframe buildings in upper Manhattan, especially with some of their roofline decorations still intact. In fact it’s illegal to build woodframe buildings in Manhattan, and has been illegal for a long time, because of the fire hazard created by so many buildings crammed so close together. A fire in [...]

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77th STREET STATION, Bay Ridge

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Quietly, the MTA is “celebrating” a century of the BMT 4th Avenue line in Brooklyn, which has served first #2 trains (the BMT was originally numbered), then RR trains, then R trains in most of its stations since June 22, 1915. All stations between DeKalb Avenue and 36th Street opened that date along with the [...]

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TWINLAMP, Midtown

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photo: Glen Norman, 2001 This Twin stood on the SW corner of 5th Avenue and West 32nd Street until approximately 2010. It’s a Twinlamp but not the original 5th Avenue design; apparently the molds for the originals, installed beginning in 1896, were lost, so when one was toppled the Twin deign that originated in the [...]

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FORGOTTENTOUR #101: DYKER HEIGHTS – LIEF ERICSON SQUARE

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ForgottenTour #101, the last of the 2015 season, was held on a brisk Sunday, November 8th, 2015 in what was one of your webmaster’s neighborhoods in earlier days.   Ovington Avenue is one of Bay Ridge’s oldest cross streets, and it meanders gently against the grid that was later laid down around it, so it [...]

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FORGOTTENTOUR #100: GREEN-WOOD CEMETERY

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Forgotten NY’s 100th tour, October 25, 2012 (the first was June 1, 1999) met at Green-Wood Cemetery, a frequent tour subject. This time we explored the eastern end of the burial park. Above, fans gather at Charles Feltman’s tomb. Feltman, the purported inventor of the hot dog (it was originally a sausage served on a [...]

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FORGOTTENTOUR #99: TRIBECA

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ForgottenFans gather at the Square Diner, Varick and Leonard Streets, for ForgottenTour #99 on October 18, 2015. Some of the tour highlights:   Because of the miracle of landmarks preservation, the designated #2 White Street, at the northeast corner of West Broadway, has survived since 1809. It was constructed that year for a Gideon Tucker, owner [...]

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FORGOTTENTOUR #98: BAYSIDE

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ForgottenFans gather in view of Little Neck Bay for ForgottenTour #98, September 13, 2015 to take a look at some of the northeast Queens neighborhood’s relatively unknown aspects.   The present Bayside LIRR station house on 41st Avenue and 213th Street is a gambrel-roofed structure dating to 1923. In those days, station agents and their [...]

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FORGOTTENTOUR #97: GRAND ARMY PLAZA, Brooklyn

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ForgottenFans gathered at the statue of Major General G. Kemble Warren (1830-1882) on August 23, 2105 for ForgottenTour #97 in Brooklyn’s Grand Army Plaza to investigate some of the little-known personages honored in the traffic circle, as well as other more interesting aspects. A surveyor and engineer by trade, Kemble arranged a last minute defense [...]

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FORGOTTENTOUR #96: SOME OF PARK SLOPE

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On ForgottenTour #96, August 9, 2015, we walked up 9th Street and then Prospect Park to 15th Street and took in some little-known aspects of the neighborhood…   The Charles Higgins ink factory building on 8th Street between 4th and 5th Avenues was converted to apartments by Con Edison’s Renaissance Program in 1982.   Higgins’ [...]

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FORGOTTENTOUR #95: MADISON SQUARE

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ForgottenTour #95, July 26, 2015, was an exploration of the little-known aspects of Madison Square, its environs,  and lower 5th Avenue, including:   Described as a forceful, charismatic and flamboyant orator, Roscoe Conkling was Senator of New York between 1867-1881 after two stints at the House. In 1876, Conkling lost in a squeaker to Rutherford [...]

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FORGOTTENTOUR 94: SECRETS OF CENTRAL PARK

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ForgottenTour #94 met on the sunny but humid morning of Sunday, July 12, 2015 to explore some of the more little-known aspects of Central Park, including…   This ornate lamp was donated by Hamburg, West Germany in 1979 and is a replica of a lamp found in Hamburg at the Lombard Bridge. The plaque reads “This [...]

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WOODHAVEN, Queens

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When I last did a general walkabout in Woodhaven, it was all the way back in 2007, so there’s a little catching up to do. One of the more successful Forgotten NY tours was in this very neighborhood in June 2015, so I’ll use some of the notes from that day for this survey. I’ll [...]

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BRACKET DESKEY LAMP, Forest Hills

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Excuse the presence of the chain link fence in this shot, but the only way to shoot this increasingly-rare bracketed double Deskey still hanging in there on the Grand Central Parkway just south of the Long Island Expressway was through the fence on a pedestrian overpass. The Donald Deskey lamp, first introduced in 1958, proved [...]

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HDA & NHMA announce 2016 Joint National Conference on Hispanic Health

Advancing Hispanic Health: the Next 20 Years

Join the HDA and NHMA network of dentists, physicians, health care professionals, government and private sector partners from across the nation and learn new strategies for effective health care and policies to improve the health of Hispanic populations.

In 2016, HDA and NHMA will be hosting a joint national conference, bringing together experts from across the nation to share their multi-disciplinary experiences in improving health care delivery for Hispanic populations.  National, international, and local health experts will present on current innovations in dental/medical homes, accountable care organizations, oral health, medical education training, research, prevention, behavioral health, integrated care, e-health, and cultural competence for the growing Hispanic populations in the U.S. Disease areas include infectious disease, diabetes, obesity, cardiovascular disease, cancer and others. CE/CME credits to be provided.

We invite all who care for Hispanic populations to join us in DC. We also invite government agencies and corporate community relations to consider becoming a Sponsor and supporting this unique conference.

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LEONARD FURNITURE, Kips Bay

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Usually, when an ancient ad starts fading that’s bad news because its legibility is ruined. But I’ve found a sign at 117 East 24th Street, a couple of blocks east of Madison Square, in which the fading has actually enhanced the ad’s appeal — since it has brought to the fore even older ads that [...]

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RUBEL CORP., Coney Island

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What appears to be a fairly doctrinaire one-story brick warehouse on Neptune Avenue and West 21st Street, a couple of blocks from the Coney Island boardwalk…   Is now a NYC Sanitation facility originally built by the Rubel Bros. Coal and Ice company. The company was started by Samuel Rubel (1881-1949), who sold ice and [...]

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GILBERT’S SHOES, Francisville, Philadelphia

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Francisville is a small neighborhood north of downtown Philadelphia. Like Manhattan’s Greenwich Village, the neighborhood doesn’t conform to Philly’s overall street grid due to its status as a small town along Ridge Avenue that was later absorbed by the city proper. Gentrification has yet to encroach on Francisville, so there are a couple of classic [...]

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CHIP SHOP, Boerum Hill

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Lisa, a friend from Philly, said she wanted to eat at Chip Shop in Brooklyn, so we headed to its sole remaining location at 129 Atlantic Avenue at Henry Street in Boerum Heights. This is a location I know quite well, since I attended college here in the Stone Age and have been a frequenter [...]

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MARKET DINER, 1964-2015

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The Market Diner, manufactured by the De Raffele Diner Company and opened at 11th Avenue and West 43rd Street in 1964, closes at the end of the business day on Sunday, November 1st, 2015. The Market rented its space from a real estate company called the Moinian Group, which had purchased the plot in 2004 [...]

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MONTROSE AVENUE, East Williamsburg

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A few weeks ago I walked Meserole Street west, then Montrose Avenue (which is a block south of Meserole) east, then Bushwick Avenue as far south as the Aberdeen Street station — after a few years I thought it was time to update my Bushwick Avenue photos, which had been taken in 2000 or so [...]

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