Originally posted on Ephemeral New York:
Harlem has lots of lovely, little-known streets and micro-neighborhoods. One of the grandest is Sugar Hill, an area rich with beautiful row houses, handsome apartment buildings, and a towering view of upper Manhattan. Bounded roughly by 145th Street to the upper 150s and Edgecombe and Amsterdam Avenues, it was…

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The upper half of the torso and arms were found first, on June 26, 1897, by boys playing on a pier off East 11th Street. The rest of the torso came ashore near High Bridge. The legs showed up off the Brooklyn Navy Yard. The body was that of…

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South Street was a still and empty place of tenement dwellers overshadowed by the Brooklyn Bridge in “South Street Stoop,” painted in 1935 by O. Louis Guglielmi. “[Guglielmi’s] dreamlike works were critical commentaries on the social injustices of capitalism,” states Bruce Weber, author of Paintings in New York. “The…

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Today is the birthday of Irish character actress Una O’Connor (Agnes Terese McGlade, 1880-1959). O’Connor got her start at the Abbey Theatre in Dublin and spent many years on the boards in both Ireland and England before coming out to Hollywood in 1933 for the screen adaptation of Noel Coward’s Cavalcade. She…

Originally posted on Ephemeral New York:
Red Hook Lane is a blink-and-you’ll-miss-it stretch of road off bustling Fulton Street in downtown Brooklyn. This one-block lane is the last remnant of colonial-era Red Hook Lane, a Canarsie Indian trail that became the route from the heights of Brooklyn town through Dutch farmland to the swampy Red…

Originally posted on Ephemeral New York:
With its boarded-up parlor windows, wispy lace curtains, and lone light coming from the attic dormer windows, the 1824 Federal-style house at 139 Greene Street certainly gives off a spooky vibe. Number 139 has an interesting history as a family home, brothel, factory, and longstanding renovation project. If any…