Tag: history
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Corner Store: 1937
1028 Third Avenue, 1937 Photo: via Shorpy Great Shorpy photo of an Italian grocery on Third Avenue, circa 1937 (as always with Shorpy, click through to see the high resolution version in all its glory). The building still stands, stripped of its decoration and given the dreaded styrofoam stucco treatment (in sea foam green, no…
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Congresswoman Time-Travels, and Eyebrows Are Raised
http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/09/05/a-congresswomans-call-for-freedom-from-the-dutch/?ref=nyregion
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Relic of the City Beautiful Movement: The Greenpoint Bathhouse
http://newyork.untappedcities.com/2012/08/22/relic-of-the-city-beautiful-movement-the-greenpoint-bathhouse/
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Dog Day Afternoon
Onlookers in Gravesend take in the standoff. Photo: NYT 40 years ago today, John Wojtowicz and Salvatore Natuarale tried to rob a Chase Manhattan bank branch in Gravesend. The Times has and excellent post and archival slideshow on the resulting standoff.
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Listing of a Brooklyn Home Ignites Blog Readers
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/21/nyregion/listing-of-models-brooklyn-home-ignites-blog-readers.html?smid=pl-share
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Once a Staple, Aluminum Awnings Are Losing Their Appeal
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/06/26/nyregion/once-a-staple-awnings-are-losing-their-appeal.html?smid=pl-share
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R.I.P. Rainbow Theatre
Rainbow Theatre 167 Graham Avenue Photo: Laguardia Archives via Cinema Treasures This was what the entrance to the Rainbow Theatre on Graham Avenue looked like in 1939. According to Brownstoner, the building is in mid-gut as part of a condo conversion. The 1,746-seat house of the theatre was back along Meserole Street. Like many movie…
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Your Guide to a Tour of Decay
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/06/17/nyregion/mitch-waxman-tour-guide-to-decay.html?smid=pl-share
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Inside the Domino Sugar Refinery
More scenes of abandonment and decay – this time from the aptly title Abandoned NYC blog (via Business Insider, of all places). Raw Sugar Warehouse, interior Photo: Abandoned NYC
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Brooklyn’s Boneyard
In the Daily Mail, a collection of photos from Williamsburg’s days (not so long ago) as a open-air chop shop. Photo: James Cathcart