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New York goes electric
Consolidated Edison, Waterside Generating Plant, 1930. Photo courtesy of the Museum of the City of New York
After Thomas Edison’s first installation of a single-building incandescent light bulb system, which was in a printing factory, the...
New York’s Streets to Nowhere
Patchin Place, 1937. Photo courtesy of the Museum of the City of New York.
While the grid dominates most of the city, there are a few leftover streets which are distinctly their own. In many cases, these courts and places (street-name suff...
NYC’s Reshaped Waterways
Isaac G. Johnson & Co. Foundry, 1918. Courtesy of the New-York Historical
Many of New York’s waterways have been dramatically reshaped to improve navigation, whether filled in to accommodate roads on the land or widened and dredged to allo...
The Brooklyn hotel that was cut in half
Shaw’s Hotel, Cypress Hills. Courtesy of the Center for Brooklyn History.
Before Shaw’s Hotel split in two, the land it stood on was already “halved” between brothers. The intersection on Jamaica Plank Road had two popular roadhouses on ei...
Manhattan's Mysterious Curiosity Shops
48 Third Avenue, 1937. Photographed by Berenice Abbott. Photo courtesy of the Museum of the City of New York.
The Stuyvesant Curiosity Shop was one of a handful in Manhattan. What exact need this genre of shop met is up for debate, but Cha...
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