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The (old) Metropolitan Opera House
Source: Library of Congress The Academy of Music (which was located at the corner of 14th Street and Irving Place)
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The John Purroy Mitchel Memorial Flagstaffs at the NYPL
In December 1911, two eighty-five  foot tall Oregon pine flag poles were erected on Fifth Avenue, in front of the
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World’s Tallest Buildings: New York City Edition
Newspaper Row. Photo via Library of Congress From 1890 to 1974, the world’s tallest building was located in New
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The Last Riker House
Marion Duckworth Smith at the front door, Â painted red, which symbolized welcoming to the Dutch The Lent-Riker-Smith Homestead, the only
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The treasures of the Montparnasse Cemetery
Exploring Paris’s cemeteries–(Montmartre,  Montparnasse,  Passy,  Père Lachaise, and  Picpus)–can be a rewarding task. Artists, statesmen, and industrialists
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King Manor Museum: A Colonial Find in Queens
King Manor Museum, or the Rufus King House, is a hidden historical Colonial treasure in Queens. Despite the A.I.
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Daily What!? A Trip to the Moon in the West Village
Hugo,  Martin Scorsese’s film adapted from Brian Selznick’s The Invention of Hugo Cabret,  reminded me of my favorite
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Lost: 33 Foot High, 8 Ton, Statue — Have You Seen It?
In 1868, the New York Life  Insurance  Company relocated its headquarters uptown to a Griffith Thomas designed  Italianate  style building.
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Les Cimetières de Paris | The treasures of the Passy Cemetery
Exploring Paris’s cemeteries–(Montmartre,  Montparnasse,  Passy,  Père Lachaise, and  Picpus)–can be a rewarding task. Artists, statesmen, and industrialists
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The New York City that Never Was: Part IV A Visionary Dream of the 1916 Zoning Resolution
This is the fourth installment of the series, the New York City that Never Was (Part I: Buildings, Part II:
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The Secrets of Fort Washington Park
We attended a tour of Fort Washington Park with David Freeland, author of Automats, Taxi Dances, and Vaudeville, who, having
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OHNY: General Theological Seminary
Since 2003, Openhousenewyork (OHNY) has facilitated free-access to architectural gems throughout the city. This year I stopped by General Theological