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Last Weekend

A picture of white-out in Manhattan. Note that the sidewalk on the right, behind the bollards, is almost clear of snow. Those three men at the bottom of the picture spent hours re-enacting Sisyphus’s punishment with snow, clearing the block from one end to the other, and then starting over again to clear the snow that fell while they were working.


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Demonstrated

A photo from San Francisco, some time in late April 1906:

http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/ppmsca.51999

In the foreground, the ruins of an eight-story bearing-wall building; in the background the bare steel frame of an unfinished 13-story building. The frame looks pristine...


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Far And Near

The nature of Manhattan is such that you sometimes can’t see a building you know is nearby and you can sometimes see one from a long distance off if you’re in the right place. Particularly in the regular grid portion of Manhattan, it can be difficult to get an angle to see a building where closer buildings don’t block it…unless you’re on a roof…

Looking west acr...


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From the NYPL photo album of the construction of the IRT subway 1900-1904, here are four pictures titled “59th Street Circle.” That circle is the southwestern corner of Central Park, with Central Park South/59th Street passing through east-west, Eighth Avenue/Central Park West passing through North-South, and Broadway, on two very different alignments, passing though on a dia...


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From A Distance

From the Wurts Brothers, “General View – Manhattan – Aerial view – Park Avenue – Broadway – looking south”:

The street running diagonally from the lower left towards the center is Park Avenue South; Broadway starts at the lower right corner and runs diagonally the other way. The oval of Union Square is visible just to the right of center; the towers of the finan...


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