Another One Bites the Dust
Another Slaughtered Lamb, Another McElfatrick Disappers Into Oblivion Wednesday, December 10, 2014 Back In August of 2013 I put up a piece about a theater. It was announced that yet another …
Tubby Hook – Who was Tubby? Inwood Part 1
Friday, January 25, 2013 By the late 18th century, after the revolution and naming and renaming streets and places had begun, the area on this rock north of the village of Manhattanville all the way …
103rd Street and Broadway (and a little 104th Street)
Thursday, May 31, 2012 After the Civil War, New York grew at a rate like never seen before in this town. The only way New York, and when I say New York I mean the Isle of Manhattan, could grow …
West 112th Street
I have been coming to this street for too many years. I escaped the death sentence of the local Junior High School by going to The Bank Street School for Children for two years. I was always …
The Roxy Theater, one of New York City’s greatest lost palaces.
Monday, November 28, 2011 So I am looking through the New York Public Library and its new way of viewing online. The clarity is a little better. However, looking around, I found a picture of a house …
The Roxy Theater, one of New York City’s greatest lost palaces.
Monday, November 28, 2011 This is the late, great, much missed largest theater in the world (for a while), birth place of what became the Rockettes and “The Cathedral of the Motion …
The Hamilton Theater
This is the Hamilton Palace. It is one of the largest “dollar” stores in Manhattan. Everything from off – shore versions of Crest toothpaste to Guayabera shirts, slightly irregular …
West 103rd Street July 1, 1888
Monday, August 22, 2011 This is the Downes Boulevard Hotel & Restaurant. The photo was taken form the roof of a building whose original address was 890 Boulevard, a mixed commercial/residential …