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Jonas Lie Brooklyn Bridge painting " Ephemeral New York
17+ min ago (455+ words) The Brooklyn Bridge is celebrating its 143rd birthday on May 24, the day Gilded Age New Yorkers could finally walk across this wondrous span and celebrate the uniting of Brooklyn and Manhattan. The Brooklyn Bridge over peaceful waters, the bridge and its…...
Oldest Tree in Central Park London Plane " Ephemeral New York
1+ hour, 12+ min ago (421+ words) It's an immense beauty rooted under grass and gravel that spreads its canopy of leaves across the northeastern end of the Central Park reservoir. And this London Plane tree, mostly minding its business in this popular neck of the park,…...
From an 1890s settlement house to a 1980s symbol of gentrification, the rocky evolution of Christodora House
3+ hour, 15+ min ago (1081+ words) Some New York City buildings become more than buildings'they transform into symbols. Christodora House, a 16-story fortress completed in 1928 on Avenue B in the East Village, become a symbol of gentrification in the late 1980s'when a new owner converted the…...
Oldest Trees in New York City " Ephemeral New York
1+ hour, 12+ min ago (421+ words) It's an immense beauty rooted under grass and gravel that spreads its canopy of leaves across the northeastern end of the Central Park reservoir. And this London Plane tree, mostly minding its business in this popular neck of the park,…...
The Story of the Christodora House on Avenue B
3+ hour, 15+ min ago (1157+ words) Some New York City buildings become more than buildings'they transform into symbols. Christodora House, a 16-story fortress completed in 1928 on Avenue B in the East Village, become a symbol of gentrification in the late 1980s'when a new owner converted the…...
Christodora House Settlement Houses in NYC " Ephemeral New York
3+ hour, 15+ min ago (1157+ words) Some New York City buildings become more than buildings'they transform into symbols. Christodora House, a 16-story fortress completed in 1928 on Avenue B in the East Village, become a symbol of gentrification in the late 1980s'when a new owner converted the…...
Doctors" Row Mott Haven " Ephemeral New York
1+ week, 2+ hour ago (802+ words) They look like the kind of row houses that make Greenwich Village and the Upper West Side so picturesque'elegant stone facades, rounded archways, pops of stained glass, and cast iron railings on stoops and balconies. But this four-block span of…...
Why John Sloan painted this lush scene of a woman in Union Square battling the rain
6+ day, 23+ hour ago (275+ words) John Sloan was a Village resident and something of a voyeur in the early 1900s, discreetly watching from his window or walking nearby streets in search of scenes to commit to canvas. He never lacked material, finding inspiration in the ordinary:…...
This West Side tenement seems to be precariously perched on the past
1+ week, 23+ min ago (362+ words) You can see it from the Henry Hudson Parkway: the back of an ordinary seven-story tenement built on a primitive stone foundation that's almost as tall as the tenement itself. The foundation is made from the kind of uneven stones…...
The harmony and unity of a South Bronx street once so elite, it was nicknamed the "Irish Fifth Avenue
1+ week, 2+ hour ago (778+ words) They look like the kind of row houses that make Greenwich Village and the Upper West Side so picturesque'elegant stone facades, rounded archways, pops of stained glass, and cast iron railings on stoops and balconies. But this four-block span of…...