Just a quick, fun post. I was watching Pawn Stars and a guy walked in with a canceled check signed by Carlo Gambino in 1962. It was from S.G.S. Associates, and you could see the address on the check: 141 East 44th Street. I Google Earthed it…The Fitzpatrick Grand Hotel. (Flag of Ireland).
Category Archives: Random Stuff
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Feb
Feb
Just a quick post. Going through the Museum of the City of New York’s archives I found this 1932 picture of 298 Grand Street. The Federal-style home below was already 100 years old at the time (they’d stopped building dormer windows around 1840). By 1932, this was in the heart of the Jewish Lower East […]
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Dec
Dec
As happens, while doing research on one project I stumbled on something so remarkable I thought it deserved its own post. At first I didn’t think it could be possible, but Stoke’s Iconography (v. 3) had this image from 1846 of a quaint little country church, that looked eerily familiar. Then I read the name: Church of […]
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Nov
Nov
My first post is a simple interesting one. I had just read Alone Together: A History of New York’s Early Apartments and had the book with me when I skated over to the site of the old Broadway Central Hotel (the west side of Broadway just north of the Bond Street intersection). It was built in 1871 […]