13 January 2008
43 Years of Busted Chasses
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You don't see many auto body shops with a sense a history. This one's in the South Slope on Fourth Avenue, a strip filled with car s...
12 January 2008
Greenwich on 57th
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You have to crane your neck to see this forgotten sign for the Greenwich Savings Bank. It's on the east face of a building on w. 57th St...
11 January 2008
History in a Starbucks: 38 Park Row
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Whenever Starbucks opens a franchise below 14th Street in Manhattan, the address can't help but be loaded with history. Case in point: 3...
The Proof Is in the Pudding
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I've always had an affection for the grocery store pudding known as Kozy Shack. Perhaps it was the hokey name, with its intimations of h...
10 January 2008
A Clair Sign
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The old St. Clair Restaurant—which recently closed after 87 years of occupying a corner at Atlantic Avenue and Smith Street, and will reopen...
History in a Starbucks: 164 Smith
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This, the first Starbucks to blight Smith Street in Brooklyn, was once the site of Whalen Brothers , "The Universal Home Providers,...
09 January 2008
The Queensboro Bridge Knows Where Four-Fifths of You Live
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On the Manhattan side of the Queensboro Bridge, on the south side of the entrance, there's a towering metal lamppost on a sold stone ped...
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What Goes on in Queens?
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I just read a Daily News article reprinted on Queens Crap and I feel like my eyes are about to cross. It's about the Jamaica Savings Ba...
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08 January 2008
History in a Starbucks
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Recently, I wrote about a Starbucks that lives on Astor Place at the exact location where the Astor Place Opera House once was, and where, ...
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A Good Sign: C & H Restaurant
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A nice bit of old-school wall painting up in the Bronx. For a narrow corner diner on White Plains Road. Looked nice and comfortable.
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