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9 of NYC’s Shortest-Lived Buildings: Grand Central Station, Crystal Palace, Folk Art Museum
Cornelius Vanderbilt II’s Mansion at 742-748 Fifth Avenue (between 57th and 58th Streets). Photo via Library of Congress. Recently,
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Superlatives in NYC: Oldest Building, Smallest Park, Oldest Subway, Tallest Buildings and More!
New York City is chock full of superlatives. “Best” pizza and tallest building (in the United States) are just some
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The Best of the Untapped Cities Photo Pool: Brooklyn Bridge, Prospect Park, Toronto Arts Centre, World Trade Center Hallway
These are our picks for this week’s Best of Untapped Cites Photo Pool. Remember to hashtag your pictures with
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Daily What?! A Playground for Children Made of Sandy Damaged Trees in Prospect Park
There may be the poetic dedication to a fallen tree near the entrance to Prospect Park, but earlier this month
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Poetic Tribute to Fallen Tree in Prospect Park, A Stop on our Google Glass Scavenger Hunt on Sunday
As you may have read, we’re doing a crowdsourced scavenger hunt on Sunday using our Google Glass. You can
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History of Streets: The Birth of Eastern Parkway and the Evolution of Grand Army Plaza
The question of green space is not a contemporary one. New York has been struggling with it for more than
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History of NYC Streets: The Victorian Mansions of Church Avenue in Prospect Park South, Brooklyn
Brooklyn’s Church Avenue not only has an interesting backstory regarding its titular church––it also, notoriously, sections off middle
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Daily What?! There's a Quaker Cemetery in Prospect Park with 2000 Gravestones
In Prospect Park, off of Center Drive, there are two thousand gravestones and buried bodies older than the park itself.
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Unknown Brooklyn: The View from Lookout Hill
Did you know you can see Coney Island from Prospect Park? You can, and much more besides, from a spot
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Prospect Park: The Restoration of Music Island
Prospect Park has changed since Frederick Law Olmstead and Calvert Vaux designed it in 1866, but the Prospect Park Alliance
