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Two photos from Max Hubacher. First, from January 26, 1956, “View of lower Manhattan as seen from Brooklyn Bridge on a dreary winter day”:

Second, a year earlier on February 2, 1955, “Brooklyn Bridge (Brooklyn side) on a cold, dreary winter day”:

I’d say that he gives the impression of simply not liking the winter, except that the collection contai...


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I wrote about this small bridge in the Boston Public Garden seven years ago, when I took these pictures, but it turns out I have more to say about it.

It’s a wrought-iron chain suspension bridge, constructed in 1867 with a wood deck and altered i...


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The Highrise Campsite by Willem De Haan is a clever idea.

By using elements of construction scaffold, he was able to create a compact five-tier pl...


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Pamela Isley, otherwise known as Poison Ivy, leaves a courthouse in Gotham City:

H. H. Richardson’s Allegheny County Courthouse in Pittsburgh:

Photo by Jamie Stillman, via the Society of Architectural Historians “Archipedia.”

I didn’t immediately...


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Two weeks ago, Aqueduct Racetrack closed permanently. If you are not interested in horse racing – and the sport has declined precipitously from its peak before World War II – it w...


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