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Telling time on the sidewalk
Street Clock at 522 Fifth Avenue & West 44th Street, 1938. Courtesy of the Museum of the City of New York.
Cast-iron street clocks are relics of city streetscapes from as early as the 1860s. Aside from offering passersby the convenience of...
Gilded Age Drama at the Opera
Metropolitan Opera, 1411 Broadway, 1905. Photo courtesy of the Museum of the City of New York.
During the Gilded Age, New York had two competing opera houses. The New York Academy of Music, home of the New York Philharmonic from 1861-63,1...
Twenty-Five Years
Statue of Liberty with World Trade Center in background. Courtesy of Columbia University Libraries.
Today marks the 25th anniversary of September 11th, a national tragedy that reshaped the city. Nearly 3,000 people died in the attacks, and...
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...
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