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From the New York Public Library album of photos of the IRT subway construction, a 1901 photo unhelpfully titled “New York City subway construction”:
It appears someone left the cake out in the rain. Let me try to improve the appearance:
A little better, but still not great. The combination of the low-res scan and the deterioration is unfortunate, ...
In Chelsea, some fancy cast iron:
How do you get the mud, and probably horse manure, off the soles of your shoes before entering a fine rowhouse? On the second step up from the sidewalk, the bottom ornament has been omitted from the cast-iron baluster to make room for a foot and an upturned blade of sorts. You can see the paint on the “cutting” edge of the blade...
From Max Hubacher, May 19, 1961, “Pennsylvania Station, New York”:
Obviously Hubacher was more interested in people than in architecture, and that’s fine. You should look at the photo for his art, the way he intended. After that, you can look at the stuff I’m talking about.
1961 was during the catastrophic loss of ridership for passenger trains in the ...
Elektra, as Daredevil, ponders the etymology of “Hell’s Kitchen” while beating up a number of goons:
Amusingly, the answers she mentions are best known these days from Wikipedia. I was disappointed that the Oxford English Dictionary,...