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Showing posts with label prospect heights. Show all posts
Showing posts with label prospect heights. Show all posts
30 September 2013

A Good Sign: Mayday Hardware

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It's a riot of wonderful signage over at Mayday Hardware in Prospect Heights. Vertical signs, horizontal signs, hanging signs. It cou...
18 July 2012

Some Precincts Are Luckier Than Others

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Some police precincts are luckier than others. Many of New York's Finest have to inhabit a graceless bunker day in and day out. I...
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17 July 2012

Wooden Phone Booth Sighting: Tom's Restaurant

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In Tom's Restaurant, operating in Prospect Heights since 1936. Needless to say, like nearly all the phone booths in NYC now, it doesn...
13 July 2012

Lost Asks "Who Goes to Tom's Restaurant?"

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Finally got around to doing a "Who Goes There?" about the Prospect Heights classic, Tom's Restaurant. Who Goes There? To...
12 July 2012

The Old Knox Hat Building

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I've written about Brooklyn's old Knox Hat Factory in the past. The other day, I finally saw it with my own peepers. I was ...
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28 March 2011

The Knox Hat Factory

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I recently found out that at some point in the past hats were big enough to support a hat factory as big as the one above at the Brooklyn c...
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I have lived in New York City since 1988 and earn my bread as a writer. I began this blog in January 2006. Beyond that, don't be so nosy. "I am not a pessimist; to perceive evil where it exists is, in my opinion, a form of optimism." —Roberto Rossellini
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