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Tory Burch Black Friday Sale
WHAT: Tory Burch Black Friday Sale
WHY: Up to 60% off select full-price and sale items at the Tory Burch Black Friday Sale.
In store and online at ToryBurch.com Use code THANKS.
WHEN: 11/19 - 11/26; M-W, F-Sat (10-7), Th (10-8), Sun (11-6)
WHERE: 797 Madison Avenue
New York, NY
Online - ToryBurch.com
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LOT Polish – $495: New York – Lviv, Ukraine. Roundtrip, including all Taxes
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A good sale to Lviv
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This week's public meeting about stormproofing East River Park
By now you know what the city has planned for East River Park starting in March. (If not, quickly: City officials, starting next spring, plan to close East River Park for three-plus years, burying it with 8- to 10-feet of soil to help protect the east side from future storms as part of the East Side Coastal Resiliency Project.)
Tomorrow (Wednesday) night from 6-8, Manhattan Borough President Gale Brewer is hosting a public meeting on the the project. The NYC Department of Design and Construction will present the plan, "followed by testimony from all those interested." (Two hours doesn't seem like enough time TBH.)
The meeting takes place in the Podell Auditorium in the Bernstein Pavilion at Mt. Sinai Beth Israel at 10 Nathan D. Perlman Place. (Roughly off of 15th Street between First Avenue and Second Avenue...
The DDC presented an updated version of their plan, which incorporates community input, before a CB3 committee last week. Curbed has coverage here.
Early last week, Brewer called for a 60-day delay "to answer the profusion of questions and consult with independent environmental experts." As she told Streetsblog: "This is an important project that shouldn’t be rushed. I want to ensure that there is enough time in the review process to allow community members to understand the plan and how it will affect their communities."
On June 25, CB3 approved the proposed plan with a list of specific conditions, as Patch reported.
The plan is now on tour through the city’s Uniform Land Use Review Procedure (ULURP), with a deciding vote expected via City Council this fall.
Meanwhile, there have been sightings of various Davey drills along the East River Park... presumably taking soil samples ahead of the work that's to commence next spring...
A group called East River Park Action is hosting a meeting Thursday evening at 6:30 at La Plaza Cultural on Ninth Street and Avenue C, per flyers spotted along the waterway...
You can find out more about East River Park Action here.
Source: https://evgrieve.com/2019/07/this-weeks-public-meeting-about.html
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Medicaid Expansion is a Necessity for Wisconsin
Representative LaKeshia Myers
By LaKeshia Myers
The people of Wisconsin have spoken, they want our state’s residents to have adequate healthcare options. One way to do this is to expand Medicaid. As the centerpiece of Governor Evers’ budget, Medicaid expansion would do the most good for Wisconsin.
Acceptance of the Affordable Care Act funding would expand not only the Medicaid program and BadgerCare Plus but also cover up to 82,000 more people, and free up more than $300 million state funds over two years that could be used for other purposes.
Contrary to popular belief, Medicaid expansion is not just an urban issue. Rural Wisconsin communities need Medicaid expansion in order to maintain adequate standards of care for rural citizens. Without Medicaid expansion, hospitals and rural clinics could be forced to close or lay off personnel. Services for rural communities who are the hardest hit by the opioid epidemic could lose AODA treatment funding.
And with our aging adult population living longer lives, these services will continue to be essential for treating the needs of all Wisconsinites.
On an urban front, Medicaid expansion would also help Wisconsin cities as well. Governor Evers and other state legislators (myself included) have begun to work on initiatives to change the perplexing trends of infant mortality and maternal health, especially in communities of color.
Expanding Medicaid would allow us to expand the role of birth and postpartum doula services to assist women giving birth to healthy children. Expanding Medicaid could also be used to spearhead pilot programming in schools to have more behavioral health clinicians in schools to offer support services to families who need them.
With Wisconsin needing so much, one can only wonder why Senator Alberta Darling and Rep. John Nygren can’t seem to understand that Medicaid expansion is a win for all of Wisconsin? Perhaps they need a wakeup call.
This article originally appeared in The Madison Times.
Source: https://www.blackpressusa.com/medicaid-expansion-is-a-necessity-for-wisconsin/
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Thursday's parting shots (aka It Takes a Swiss Village)
Swiss Village art (circa 1975) discarded on Seventh Street between First Avenue and Second Avenue...
Photos by Derek Berg.
Source: https://evgrieve.com/2019/05/thursdays-parting-shots-aka-it-takes.html
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Hawaiian Air – $516: New York – Kona, Hawaii (and vice versa). Roundtrip, including all Taxes
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A good sale to/from Kona for last minute-ish travel.
If you follow us on Instagram, you know that we go to Hawaii with some frequency. We love it!
Waipo Valley, Big Island, Hawaii – Photo: Paul Bica via Flickr, used under Creative Commons License (By 2.0)
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Flowers (and Other Things) for Clinton Street
It was once one of the scruffiest addresses on Clinton Street. Now, the five-story tenement at number 84 adds a touch of floral to its retail ranks.
Serial Lower East Side business owner Bill Fraser – the man behind Flowers on Essex and Flowers Cafe – is helming another related project. This time at Clinton Street, which is now adorned with plastic purple roses that spell “Flowers.”
Bill’s Flowers and Other Things is just that. A florist and gift shop that doubles as a pseudo-events space and community gathering hub. It’s one thousand square-feet and a backyard where there will be “events for the neighborhood.” There will also be a make-your-own bouquet station, classes on flowers, and a relaxation area.
Meanwhile, the Grand Street store will remain strictly as a retail flower and gift shop.
The newcomer has been in soft launch mode for a couple weeks, but officially opens to the public on August 14 with a party.
Source: https://www.boweryboogie.com/2019/08/flowers-and-other-things-for-clinton-street/
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Mayor to E-Bike/E-Scooter Supporters: Power Down! [Updated]
Mayor de Blasio does not support e-bike and e-scooter legalization at this time, his transportation commissioner testified Wednesday at the kickoff of a debate on several City Council bills that would encourage both forms of mobility.
“The city’s concern with these throttle e-bikes has always been their unregulated, illegal nature and particularly their speeds and irresponsible use by some,” Department of Transportation Commissioner Polly Trottenberg said at Wednesday’s hearing, which centered on four e-bike and e-scooter bills. “Should state action provide the ability for localities to authorize these devices, we’d be open to a conversation with the council about whether to allow them here in New York City.”
Trottenberg was referring to a proposal by Gov. Cuomo to allow cities to decide for themselves whether to legalize the devices — but Trottenberg did not provide any insight into whether the mayor would back the Council’s bid to go ahead and do just that.
Delivery worker Jinhua Li wants e-bikes legalized. Photo: Gersh Kuntzman
“We are still in the early stages of evaluating how [e-scooters] operate in urban areas,” she said of e-scooters, adding that her agency was in conversation with leaders of other cities where scooters are in operation. She said it wasn’t clear yet that e-scooter trips were actually replacing car trips — or that the hardware was even up-to-par.
“Talking to other cities, these things are pretty disposal. They last between a month and two months,” Trottenberg warned.
The Council’s Transportation Committee Chairman Ydanis Rodriguez countered that he believes the city has the right to legalize e-bikes and e-scooters regardless of the state proposal.
In terms of e-bikes, Trottenberg suggested that the mayor remains concerned by their supposed negative safety impacts — though the city has never produced any data that the devices pose more of a danger to pedestrians than regular bikes.
The mayor used that safety concern to justify his crackdown on the e-bikes, announced in October 2017. In 2018, NYPD increased its confiscations of e-bikes by 20 percent, according to Police Transportation Chief Thomas Chan. Each throttled-powered e-bike is worth around $1,800, and confiscations and tickets can up to well over $1,000 for the city’s delivery workforce. More than 1,200 were confiscated last year.
City Council proponents of e-bike legalization pushed back on the assertion that either e-bikes or e-scooters are dangerous. Trottenberg claimed that three people have been killed riding e-scooters already here — which garnered pushback from Council Member Fernando Cabrera, a sponsor of the e-scooter legalization bill.
“They don’t tend to cause injuries to others,” Cabrera told Trottenberg and NYPD officials testifying by her side. “They don’t tend to cause injuries to others. Can we agree to that, that e-scooters are not known to cause injuries?”
His statement was met with jeers from some members of the audience.
“I think it may be too early to say,” said NYPD Legislative Affairs Director Oleg Chernyavsky. “We don’t really disaggregate the data.”
Update: An earlier version said that Trottenberg claimed that two people had died on scooters. The DOT later issued a statement claiming it is three.
Source: https://nyc.streetsblog.org/2019/01/23/mayor-to-e-bikee-scooter-supporters-power-down/
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Lemon Flash Sample Sale
WHAT: Lemon Flash Sample Sale
WHY: Up to 90% off brand new Fall/Winter 2019 samples at the Lemon Flash Sample Sale.
Blankets, loungewear, slippers, socks, accessories, and more. While supplies last.
Cash preferred. Cards accepted. All sales final.
WHEN: 3/7 - 3/8; Th-F (9:30-5:30)
3/11; ; Th-F (9:30-5:30)
WHERE: 1384 Broadway
Floor 25
New York, NY 10018
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QUEENS 1930s
I’ve begun to think about “stuff” lately.
Forgotten New York celebrated its 20th anniversary this year, and I didn’t start on it until 1998, when I was 40 years old. This was just a few years after the World Wide Web started getting really popular; had the internet been around in the 1970s, think of how large Forgotten NY would be by now. If you’re keeping score there are 3,715 separate posts, which consist of tens of thousands of images, if you estimate ten images per page (many posts have one image but many have 100!) To cut to the chase, I’m thinking about legacy. In the immediate offing, I’m covered by the Greater Astoria Historical Society, which will continue the hosting if I’m run over by a streetcar or something. Long-term? I’m 61 now (in 2019), and hope to do this as long as I’m physically able. My energy levels are still as good as ever — I do a lot of walking and bicycling, though I can’t walk 20+ miles a day like some friends (to my frustration).
How will Forgotten New York be remembered when it ceases everyday production? Well, as a photographer and chronicler of New York city infrastructure, I’d be honored to be whispered about in the same breath as photographers Percy Loomis Sperr, Eugene Armbruster, Edgar “E.E.” Rutter, and the anonymous photographers who shot every property in New York City for tax purposes; their work can be found in the New York Public Library archives and in the NYC Municipal Archives. Their photography was primarily documentarian over esthetic: there wasn’t a budding Ansel Adams in the bunch. For esthetics, you’d be advised to turn to Berenice Abbott, who deftly managed to combine both everyday chronicling and beautiful photography, having been influenced by the great Parisian art photographer Eugene Atget and by artists Man Ray and Marcel Duchamp. I don’t aspire to Abbott’s artistry, but I certainly aspire to the great documentary powers the other photographers I mentioned were able to achieve.
Remember, photography was an expensive, cumbersome business for all mentioned above. I have a camera with a small, thin chip in it that can record over 1,000 pictures depending on its setting, as well as a portable telephone that has an excellent camera almost as an afterthought. Street photography has never been easier. As far as modern work goes there’s Matt Weber, one of the best New York street photographers, and for night photography the best I’ve seen is Mitch Waxman, who sticks mainly to western Queens, especially the Newtown Creek area.
A few years ago, I got my mitts on nearly 1,000 photographs taken all over Queens between 1929 and 1940 primarily as a method of recording recent street paving jobs. Thus, the focus is on roadways, either those recently repaved or are about to be repaved. Everything else seemed to be done as a sidelight though, as you’ll see, some fascinating building interiors were also recorded as part of the project. I have a somewhat busy weekend with a tour scheduled, so I thought I would take a few of these and scribble something about what I’m seeing in each.
164th Street at Jewel Avenue, looking north, July 7, 1936
In the late 19th and early 20th Century, a trolley line connected Flushing and Jamaica, running originally through the farms and fields of Fresh Meadows. The above image was captured at 164th Street and Jewel Avenue in 1936, just a few months before service ended in 1937. In short order, the tracks were pulled up, the weeds paved over, a center median added, and 164th Street became the fast and furious stretch we know it as today between Flushing Cemetery and the Grand Central Parkway.
South of Grand Central Parkway the trolley line veered off 164th and rode on its own right of way to a terminal on Jamaica Avenue at about 160th Street. In the decades since, most of this trolley route has been either eliminated or hidden pretty well, but the four-lane width of 164th Street is a legacy of the route. As you can se there was one lane of traffic on the east side of the street, with the rest taken up by trolley tracks. This photo was about a year before service ended, and the line seems to be in decline, with plants and weeds sprouting between the tracks. For more information see Stephen Meyers’ book, Lost Trolleys of Queens and Long Island.
In the photo, the lengthy building seen on the right distance is still there in 2019.
Jewel Avenue is an unusual named street that runs from Forest Hills across Flushing Meadows-Corona Park all the way to Fresh Meadows. It’s the only remnant of a group of streets east of Queens Boulevard in Forest Hills named in alphabetical order that turn up on maps from the early 20th Century. The streets in sequence were named Atom, Balfour, Chittenden, DeKoven, Euclid, Fife, Gown, Harvest, Ibis, Jewel, Kelvin, Livingston, Meteor, Nome, Occident, Pilgrim, Quality, Ruskin, Sample, Thurman, Uriu, Verona, Webb, and Zuni; it’s likely the streets were only on the planning boards till they were built mid-century, by which time they carried the numbers (68th Road, 68th Drive etc) they do today. I don’t know why the Jewel Avenue name was kept; it’s one of the few non-numbered streets, along with Northern Blvd. and Roosevelt Avenue, that cross Flushing Meadows-Corona Park.
The above photo was taken by the Somach Photographic Company, which also did a large amount of work recording what NYC streets looked like in the 1930s.
Ocean Promenade (Rockaway Beach Boardwalk) at Beach 101 Street
I cropped out the date on this photo to get my optimum width, but again, it’s sometime in the mid-1930s in late April. The season is just getting started at Gobel’s hot dog and hamburger stand. Note the barrel that was used to dispense Hires’ Root Beer. Silex coffeemakers debuted in 1915 and merged with Proctor Electric in 1960, creating the Proctor Silex company, which merged with Hamilton Beach in 1990.
The photos have largely yet to see the light, but in October 2018 I walked the length of the Rockaway Beach boardwalk, which aside from a short section by Riis Park near the Marine Parkway (Gil Hodges) Bridge, runs continuously from Beach 126th to Beach 9th Street (numbered streets on the peninsula get bigger from east to west). In 2012, Hurricane Sandy did a number on the old wooden boardwalk and it needed to be rebuilt virtually for its entire length. It’s now a state of the art seaside walk, but at the loss of the old “boardwalk” feel as synthetic materials were used instead of good old wood planks.
What is also missing are boardwalk-side vendors like this; I have a wealth of photos depicting these stands which numbered in the dozens. What happened to them? The closure of the Rockaway Playland amusement park in the early 1980s didn’t help, and today, not one remains. Also: “Specifically [Robert Moses’] 1939 road to nowhere called Shore Front Parkway. As part of the construction, no businesses or dwellings were allowed within 200′ of the boardwalk and a lot of homes, businesses and about half of Playland.
Capitol Diner, Lawrence Street, February 18, 1932
This E.E. Rutter photo of a roadside railroad-car style diner was taken in an era when fast food franchises such as Starbucks and McDonalds did not exist. Yet it can be said that the Dunkin’ Donuts of the world are the direct descendants of such road food stands, which evolved into steel and chrome diners. Such diners are now themselves dying out, as their owners retire and developers prefer to build multistory buildings in their footprints.
Yet, these small diners, the earliest of which were located in decommissioned railroad cars, were nearly ubiquitous even in downtown areas in the 1930s and 1940s; they’re all over scenes in the Municipal Archives linked above.
In 1969, the Department of Traffic (now Transportation) decided to rename 122nd Street, College Point Causeway, Lawrence Street, and Rodman Street under the single moniker College Point Boulevard. a short stub still bears the name Lawrence Street in Queensboro Hill. You have to be a little careful with the labeling on these photos; the “College Point Causeway” moniker only applied to the current stretch of College Point Boulevard on the diagonal stretch between 26th Avenue and the Whitestone Expressway; south of that, the bulk of the road was called Lawrence Street and that’s where this photo was likely taken.
On the ads, the Willys-Knight Company produced autos between 1915 and 1933. Willys, named for John Willys, developed one of the first “jeeps” used in World War II and the brand name survived until the late 1950s and a series of mergers. The Whippet was a popular model named for the racing dogs, in production between 1926 and 1931. And,
The Scranton & Lehigh Coal Company was one of Pennsylvania’s large coal companies, supplying the Northeast with anthracite and other coal products. The engines that powered Brooklyn ran on coal; everything from heating homes and apartments, to heating the offices, schools, and churches of the borough, to the huge boilers that powered the many factories in the city. Coal was the fuel that kept it all going until well after World War II. Even today, a coal furnace still turns up here and there; they were long lasting, powerful, but simple heat producers. [Brownstoner]
“Theater building,” Lawrence Street, February 19, 1932
Another Rutter photo from the same period, also labeled College Point Causeway, shows a former domicile that has been turned into a billboard for several local movie theaters and the features playing at the time.
On the top floor are bills advertising the Taft Theatre, opened on Main Street in 1917 Flushing and renamed after President William Howard Taft, who passed away in 1930. It was a first run theater, but could not compete with the nearby RKO Keiths and Prospect Theatres, and closed in 1955. Both the Keiths and the Prospect survived until the mid-1980s: the RKO Keiths shell building is still on Main and Roosevelt Avenue, awaiting redevelopment. The Loew’s Valencia in Jamaica has been a church for several decades, but its near-phantamagorical detail has been preserved.
As far as the features go, The Champ was a 1931 film directed by King Vidor about a broken-down boxer played by Wallace Beery (who won the Best Actor Academy Award) and his son, played by Jackie Cooper, who had a lengthy career: he played Daily Planet editor Perry White 47 years later in the first Christopher Reeve Superman. Little-remembered today, Marie Dressler earned a Best Actress nomination in Emma.
Newsstand, Cross Island Boulevard, July 22, 1938
This photo is slugged “Cross Island Boulevard” which is the former name of Francis Lewis Boulevard; when the Cross Island Parkway was built in the late 1930s, Cross Island Boulevard was renamed shortly afterward to avoid confusion.
Depicted is a typical newsstand of the period. The top shelf is full of romance and movie magazines, few of which survive today. Titles such as Popular Science, Better Homes and Gardens and Good Housekeeping are still in business today, but none of the newspapers shown, The Long Island Daily Star, The New York Sun, and the North Shore Daily Journal, are. The New York Sun was revived as a daily in the 2000s and still exists in online form.
Laurel Hill Boulevard and 47th Street, March 28, 1938
Nothing in this photo remains; the buildings on both sides have long been razed, and Laurel Hill Boulevard is now the service road on either side of the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway. Changes were soon to come to this placid scene as the first Kosciuszko Bridge was spanning over Newtown Creek and the BQE was planned to connect Brooklyn and Queens. Once in Queens, the BQE was slated to follow the diagonal route of Laurel Hill Boulevard between the creek and Queens Boulevard, whereupon it would turn north to fork into two sections at Grand Central Parkway.
Laurel Hill Boulevard, named for a small neighborhood in Queens between Calvary Cemetery and 50th Street north of the LIRR Montauk tracks, dates back to the colonial era when it was paved with shells and known as Shell Road. It skirts the right end of Calvary Cemetery before following the BQE to Queens Boulevard.
James Gilder Bar & Grill, March 30, 1938
The James Gilder bar was located in one of the buildings depicted in 1938 that would soon give way to BQE construction.
Interborough Parkway, Cypress Hills Cemetery, January 27, 1932
The Jackie Robinson Parkway along with the Grand Central were the first of NYC’s “parkways” providing express (more or less) auto through-routing built within New York City. The “Jackie” unusually begins at the confluence of Jamaica and Pennsylvania Avenues in East New York, twisting through a convoluted route through the “cemetery belt” and Forest Park at the Brooklyn-Queens border, meeting the Grand Central at Flushing Meadows.
Here it is pictured as it was constructed in Cypress Hills Cemetery on January 27, 1932 in an E.E. Rutter photograph. Rutter chronicled the “Jackie,” which was called the Interboro Parkway until 1997 when it was renamed in honor of the first African American major league baseball player, who himself is interred in Cypress Hills. The parkway was rebuilt to handle modern traffic volumes from 1987-1992, eliminating the last traces of the original railings and overpasses seen here.
Metropolitan Beer Gardens, Metropolitan Avenue at Union Turnpike, June 28, 1933
Before the Interborough Parkway opened in 1935, narrow, two-lane Metropolitan Avenue was one of the main traffic routes connecting the Brooklyn waterfront and Jamaica. It was constructed as the Williamsburg and Jamaica Turnpike during the James Madison presidential administration in the 1810s and renamed Metropolitan Avenue after the Civil War. Union Turnpike (its name suggests it was originally tolled, as Metropolitan avenue had been) is a somewhat newer route and remained incomplete until the early 20th Century as an extension of Union Avenue, originally a short route in Glendale.
In the early 1930s, the Interborough Parkway was under construction, paralleling Union Turnpike for a portion of its route. No trace of the Metropolitan Beer Gardens exists today, and either the parkway construction or Prohibition (repealed in December 1933) may have done it in; beer gardens around town either went the speakeasy route or sold “near-beer” containing less than 0.5% alcohol by volume.
PS 63, October 30, 1929
Public School 63, which still exists today in a newer building (a massive edifice at Sutter Avenue between 90th and 91st Streets in Ozone Park) is pictured in a 1929 photo by E.E. Rutter. Though it’s slugged “Linden Boulevard” I can’t be sure it was located on that street as in the early 20th Century, Linden Boulevard, which has its origins miles to the west in Flatbush, was extended east through Queens in a halfhearted fashion; today Linden Boulevard exists in a number of separate pieces in Ozone Park, regaining traction for good in South Jamaica, where it runs continuously into Elmont in Nassau County along the former route of Central Avenue.
I suspect this photo was taken on Old South Road which decades ago was renamed in sections as Pitkin Avenue and Albert Road. Indeed, the present PS 63 is called the Old South School, which might cement it for you.
Soda Candy, Rockaway Beach Boulevard, April 26, 1938
Though Rockaway Beach Boulevard was rerouted in the 1970s a block north of this location and given extra lanes, a short, one-block stretch was left over and actually this portion of the road still exists. One thing you notice about this corner grocery is the Meadow Gold Ice Cream “privilege sign” in which a company would pay for a sidewalk sign, provided its product was prominently shown on the sign (several Coca-Cola signs around town in this category still exist. Meadow Gold, which also distributes other dairy products, is still found in several parts of the country.
Smith Brothers Ice Cream, Ditmars Boulevard and 23rd Avenue, East Elmhurst
One such Coca-Cola “privilege sign” can be found at this roadside grocery at Ditmars Boulevard and 23rd Avenue near Glenn Curtiss Airport, now LaGuardia Airport. In the forefront is a placard for Smith Brothers Ice Cream, a popular brand in the early 20th Century. This brand was not originated by the bearded fellows on the cough drop boxes, but company scion Richard Smith developed the Früsen-Gladjé, Chipwich, Eskimo Pie and other dessert brands.
Van Wyck Expressway at 95th Avenue, September 7, 1934
The furiously mustachioed Robert Anderson Van Wyck was the first mayor of Greater New York, serving from 1898-1901. His involvement with American Ice, a monopoly in the necessary commodity before the age of universal refrigeration, cost him his political career. Nonetheless when a major route was built between Jamaica Avenue and Rockaway Boulevard in the early 20th Century it received his name, Van Wyck Boulevard.
In the early 1950s, NYC traffic czar Robert Moses built the Van Wyck Expressway along this route from Flushing Meadows south to Idlewild, now JFK Airport. The west side of Van Wyck Boulevard was retained, while everything on the east side was demolished; the buildings ween on the right side of the photo at 95th Avenue still stand. Since hundreds of residences were retained this is one of the few Expressways in NYC that have numbered addresses.
Van Wyck likely pronounced his name with a long “why” but today, most locals use the WICK pronunciation.
Lawrence Street (College Point Boulevard) at 36th Avenue, February 18, 1932
The Flushing Main Street station is so-called because there used to be a Flushing Bridge Street station located on the Long Island Rail Road Whitestone Branch, which operated from the mid-1800s to 1932, branching from the Port Washington line at Flushing Meadows and running north and east to Whitestone Landing at the East River at 152nd Street. After the LIRR unsuccessfully tried selling the line to NYC to operate as a subway line (presumably a connection would be made to the Flushing Line, today’s #7 train) the LIRR shut it down for nonridership.
This photo shows the branch as it crossed Lawrence Street, now College Point Boulevard; the Flushing Bridge Street station was just east of here. When the tracks and signals were cleared away, the one-block stretch of King Road would replace them.
Gas station, Whitestone Parkway, July 27, 1937
Among the items seen are a coin-operated public telephone, a Gulf calendar, and an ad for the upcoming World’s Fair to be held in Flushing Meadows in 1939. The Parkway gained expressway status some years after the Whitestone Bridge opened in the mid-1930s.
I’ll get back to recent photos — but from time to time, I’ll be showing some of these classics to indicate how much has changed and how much has stayed the same. You can find much more in the book I wrote with GAHS, Forgotten Queens.
Check out the ForgottenBook, take a look at the gift shop, and as always, “comment…as you see fit.”
5/19/19
Source: https://forgotten-ny.com/2019/05/queens-1930s/
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The FryGuys space is for rent on 2nd Street
A for-rent sign hangs in the front window at the now-closed FryGuys at 150 E. Second St. just east of Avenue A.
There isn't any mention of a closure or relocation on the shop's website or social media properties.
FryGuys, which served a variety of french fries and potato dishes, opened in September 2017.
The closure comes nearly three months after the sale of 24 Avenue A (aka 150 E. Second St.). The Sabet Group bought the building for $15.8 million, per public records.
According to the listing at Compass, the asking rent for the 400-square-foot space is $4,561.87 per month with $79,000 in key money.
Source: https://evgrieve.com/2019/05/the-fryguys-space-is-for-rent-on-2nd.html
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AUTO REVIEW: 2019 MINI Cooper Countryman S E AWD Plug-In Hybrid: The Brand’s Only Alternative Fuel Vehicle
2019 MINI Cooper Countryman S E AWD Plug-In Hybrid: The Brand’s Only Alternative Fuel Vehicle (Photo: Jeff Fortson / JeffCars.com
By Jeff Fortson of JeffCars.com, NNPA Newswire Contributor
Highlight:This is MINI’s only electrified vehicle.
Test Vehicle’s MSRP:$45,750 (Base Model: $37,750)
Seating Capacity:4
Standard Safety Features: airbags; ABS; a stability control system; run flat tires; automatic headlights with rain sensing windshield wipers; review camera; rear parking distance control audible alert system; and a tire pressure monitoring system
Standard Equipment (Base Model): 17-inch tires; a 6-speed manual transmission; electric brakes a remote keyless entry system; a keyless ignition system; manually adjusted front seats; leather-like seats; rear seats with split folding seatback; an automatic a/c system; a manually operated tilt/telescopic steering wheel; roof rails; and heated mirrors with washer jets; a panoramic roof; 6.5-inch infotainment screen; and a rearview camera
Standard Equipment On Plug In: 18-inch wheels; 2.0-liter/221-hp; all-wheel drive; a twin turbo engine paired with an electric motor; LED headlights three driving modes: sport, mid and economy; fog lights; a panoramic roof; heated front seats with additional bolstering for the front seats (AWD model only); a dual zone automatic climate control system; heated mirrors with washer jet; a leather steering wheel; keyless entry front door access; and run flat tires
Options:Sport Edition: power folding mirrors, a power tailgate, a universal garage door opener, a keyless entry system, black roof rails, a panoramic roof, heated from seats, an automatic climate control system, LED exterior lighting, an active driving assistant, a Harmon/Kardon premium audio system and all-season tires Touchscreen Navigation Package: AppleCarPlay Compatibility, wireless charging and a navigation system JCWAppearance Package:18-inch wheels, a leather steering wheel, a rear spoiler, John Cooper Works aero kit and a headliner in anthracite; an exterior package; and a plug-in special edition
Other Trim Level:
Convertible
Hardtop
Paceman
Standard Audio On Test Vehicle: a 6-speaker audio system AM/FM/HD
Bluetooth Connectivity: Yes
USB Connectivity: Yes
Bumper-to-Bumper Warranty: 4 years or 50,000 miles
Plug-In Powertrain Warranty: 8 years or 80,000 miles
Standard Engine/Horsepower: 1.5-liter, 4-cylinder/134-hp
Recommended Fuel: Premium
Electric Plug-In Hybrid: Yes
Standard Hybrid Mileage: 65-city/27-combined
What’s New: With the second-generation Countryman plug-in hybrid joining the line up during the 2018 model year, there are no major changes this year.
Why: For those with daily commutes less than 12 miles one way or roundtrip, the alternative fuel Countryman is a godsend, especially if there is a charging station available at the final destination point. One never has to rely on gas or rack-up many miles on their Countryman.
However, realistically, those with longer commutes who need more than the 12 miles of electric driving range can depend on the additional 270 miles from the gasoline engine to kick-in. There is no range anxiety for the driver experience with the gasoline feature kicking in.
Unlike a traditional gasoline engine, the Countryman plug-in sounds like a quiet lawnmower, when idling. Surprisingly, the MINI plug-in is powered by a hearty 221-horsepower engine, which produces 284-feet pounds of torque. There is no compromise in power with this highly evolved vehicle.
And while the styling of MINIs has always being distinctive, the exterior badging, the plug in capability and the green interior lighting strips carefully placed throughout the vehicle readily identify this MINI as being certified green.
Besides this being a hybrid, the Countryman continues to be the roomiest vehicle in the brand’s portfolio. The quirky styled vehicle is almost a whopping 8 inches longer and 3 inches wider than its typical British sibling. The extra length and width allow the vehicle to compete against crossovers, which are car-based utility vehicles. Due to the additional length, the rear door is now larger. So, not only is it easier to enter and exit the rear cabin, there is more legroom too.
The engineering and the design team managed to maintain the style, distinctiveness and driving dynamics that make this vehicle so popular, as the vehicle evolved into a new generation.
In fact, out of all of the MINIS, the well-equipped Countryman offers the most standard equipment of any vehicle in the brand’s portfolio, including everything from a keyless entry system to a backup camera.
Now despite the high level of standard equipment, the Countryman can be outfitted with such optional features as a power sunroof and a technology package.
Lastly, this alternative fuel vehicle qualifies for a federal tax credit, which helps to lower the price by $4,000. One should note there may be additional savings available via one’s local municipality or place of employment, especially if there is a focus on driving green.
But: While this is MINI’S largest vehicle, we’re wondering why the rear seat does not include a standard center armrest. We know it is an optional feature.
Added to that, for consumers seeking the latest driving aids, such as a forward collision braking system, a lane keep assist system or a radar- activated cruise control, they’ll have to look outside of the MINI brand.
Moreover, I was disappointed that this vehicle is only able to run off of 12 miles of electricity, before the gasoline engine kicks in. Not only does it take too long to charge up, what is the consumer benefit. MINI’s engineering team should enhance the driving range for the plug-in.
And the last gripe I had relates to the audio system. In the MINI, satellite radio should be standard on this vehicle. A vehicle with a $45,750 price tag should include this feature in the base price.
Verdict: The iconic vehicle has grown in size significantly, making this the largest MINI ever. Unfortunately, because of the limited battery range and the time it takes to recharge, one needs to justify the cost versus the benefit. One might be better paying less for a gasoline model. With that said, the vehicle still manages to maintain its character and fun-to-drive nature. Yes, there is no mistaken this foreign icon for anything else, but a MINI 2.0.
Competition: None – due to this vehicle being a plug-in hybrid.
Jeff Fortson is the editor of JeffCars.com, a car-buying guide with a new-vehicle pricing configurator. Fortson also hosts SiriusXM’s only multicultural automotive show, Auto Trends with JeffCars.com. The weekly show airs Fridays on SiriusXM Channel 141 at 12 PM ET.
Source: https://www.blackpressusa.com/auto-review-2019-mini-cooper-countryman-s-e-awd-plug-in-hybrid-the-brands-only-alternative-fuel-vehicle/
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The 1833 Saul Alley Mansion - 6 Washington Square North
Between 1790 and 1797 the City purchased 13-acres of land near Greenwich Village as the site of a burying ground and execution site. The potter's field was the final destination of paupers and criminals. During periods of epidemic wooden coffins were stacked in trenches sometimes three or more deep. Although the hangings stopped on July 8, 1819, the surrounding area was by no means affable.
That all changed in 1826 when Mayor Philip Hone renovated the potter's field into a parade and drill ground named in honor of George Washington. Before long the tens of thousands of interred bodies were forgotten.
In 1828 George Rogers erected his elegant Federal-style country house on the northern edge of the Square. In doing so, he knocked over a domino which would result in one of the most exclusive residential enclaves in Manhattan.
The land on the north side of the Square between Fifth Avenue and University Place had been part of Captain Robert Richard Randall's 24-acre summer estate. Upon his death in 1801 he donated that land for the formation of an "Asylum or Marine Hospital to be called the Sailors's Snug Harbor." The organization was formed; however Randall's family established the hospital and grounds on Staten Island, instead. The institution wisely retained ownership of the Washington Square land.
In 1831 three prominent businessmen, John Johnston, John Morrison and James Boorman embraced the potential of the Square and planned a row of high-end speculative residences. To do so, they leased the plots from Sailors' Snug Harbor. Completed in 1833, the nearly matching mansions were faced in brick and trimmed in marble. Designed in the rising Greek Revival style, they exuded refinement, wealth and taste.
The project began at the corner of Fifth Avenue and ran eastward. photograph by the author
John Johnston erected two of the homes--Nos. 6 and 7. He moved his family into the slightly wider house and sold the leasehold of No. 6 to the prominent Quaker merchant and politician, Saul Alley. Alley's new home was an ample 27-feet wide. Three stories tall plus a squat attic floor, its wide marble stoop rose to a Doric-columned portico. The exquisite Greek Revival fencing wore generously-sized anthemia, or palmettes.
Alley had begun his career as a partner with another Quaker, Preserved Fish, and Moses Grinnell in the shipping firm of Fish, Grinnell & Co. In 1816 Alley and Fish formed the commission merchant firm of Fish & Alley. The two would continue working together when they were named commissioners of the newly-incorporated East River Fire Insurance Company of the City of New-York in April 1833.
Alley's name was well-known for a number of other reasons. He was a Director in the Bank of the United States, a water commissioner (a highly important post at a time when the massive Croton Aqueduct project was forming), and in 1839 was a commissioner of the Custom House.
Saul and his wife, the former Mary Underhill, had seven children. Both 20-year-old Mary Anna and 8-year old Josephine died in 1841. Son John was still living in the house when he opened his law office at No. 38 Wall Street around 1846. He died in the house in 1851.
George, who was just two-years-old when the family moved in to No. 6, would become a prominent banker and close friend of William H. Vanderbilt. William would go on to become a partner in the banking firm of Alley, Dowd & Co.
The graceful sweep of the staircase takes a gentle bend at the second floor. photograph by the author
Alley added to his resume (and fortune) in 1842 when he became a director of the New-York and Erie Railroad Company.
The population of No. 6 was reduced by one on May 4, 1848 when Lydia married George Catlin, Jr. She would not go far, however. The wealthy Catlin family lived just three door away at No. 9, and Lydia and her groom moved in with her new in-laws.
Lydia's brother George was married to Louisa Ann Smith Johnson on April 19, 1852. The bride was the great granddaughter of former U.S. President John Adams. Six months later, on October 21, Saul Alley died in his Washington Square mansion.
The Alley family held on to the leasehold of the house until the death of Mary in 1868. Although there were still five years left in its term, it was auctioned "by order of the executors of Saul Ally [sic]" on April 9 that year.
At each turn of the staircase a niche was provided for statuary or flowers. photograph by the author
The auction announcement offered "The Lease of the lot, with the handsome three story, attic and basement brick House, No. 6 Washington square, northside" and noted it was "in complete order." Included was the two story stable in the rear.
The marble Greek Revival mantel in the back parlor is an exact match to the one in the front. photograph by the author
The leasehold was purchased for $36,000 (about $640,000 today) by Goold Hoyt Redmond. The millionaire bachelor, son of William Redmond, Sr. and the former Sabina E. Hoyt, would not be living alone. Of his ten siblings, his sisters Emily, Matilda and Frances (known familiarly as Fannie) were listed in the house with Goold.
Immensely wealthy, Goold was listed as a "gentleman," which simply meant he did not work. He preferred sports and society and was a member of the Metropolitan, Union, Knickerbocker, and Racquet and Tennis Clubs, as well as the Tuxedo Club among others.
The Redmond sisters were no doubt distraught when their Scotch Terrier, Sam, disappeared a few months later. Wearing his new red leather collar, he went missing on May 10, 1869. When he did had not returned five days later, they offered a $5 reward (nearly $95 today).
Sam was replaced by Rowdy, a white Bull Terrier with a black spot around his eye. Another $5 reward was offered when he, too, went astray in March 1873.
Matilda married English-born railroad mogul and banker Richard James Cross on June 3, 1872, and in 1881 Frances married Henry Beekman Livingston.
In June the same year of Frances's wedding, Goold hired architect G. L. Baxter to add a one-story extension to the rear. Costing about $42,000 in today's money, it would create a new dining room. Although it was now just Emily and Goold in the house; the expanded space would soon be necessary.
The dining room extension featured a barrel-vaulted ceiling. photo by Wurts Bros. from the collection of the Museum of the City of New York
It serves as a conference room today. photograph by the author
Tragically, Matilda died in 1883, just months after the birth of her sixth child, Eliot. Her bereaved husband Richard James Cross accepted the invitation to move into No. 6 where Emily could care for the children. Two years later Richard married his sister-in-law, Annie Redmond. The family continued on in the house with Goold and Emily--creating a population of 10 not including servants.
It prompted Goold to enlarge the house again. In June 1883 he brought G. L. Baxter back to add a second story to the dining room extension, providing additional bedrooms.
The front parlor as it appeared after the turn of the century. photo by Wurts Bros. from the collection of the Museum of the City of New York
The space as it appears today. photograph by the author
There was still room, apparently, for one more. On June 15 1894 William Redmond was granted an "absolute divorce" from his wife, Margaret, whom he had married on May 1, 1889. Newspapers reported "She did not defend the case," intimating that she had been caught in a dalliance. William moved into No. 6 Washington Square.
The Redmonds and Crosses were highly visible in society as well as political and social causes. Mary Cross held anti-Tammany meetings in the drawing room in 1894 and was also a member of the Washington Square Auxiliary. The couple gave financial backing to the erection of the Washington Arch in 1890.
In the meantime, Emily, William and Goold often moved about society together. They shared a cottage in Newport, for instance, and traveled to Europe together.
Goold's unmarried status made him sought-after guest by Newport socialites. The Sun mentioned on July 4, 1897 that by his arrival "the ranks of the bachelor contingent have increased...which encourages the givers of dinner parties." If there were any hopes of marriage in the minds of wealthy matrons, however, they would never come to pass.
William Redmond died in the Washington Square house on December 6, 1898 at about 50 years of age. Emily and Goold continued traveling and entertaining together. On May 6, 1900 the New-York Tribune noted "Goold H. Redmond and Miss Redmond, of No. 6 Washington Square North have arranged to sail for Europe on Tuesday next in the steamship Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosse. They will remain abroad for several months." And the siblings leased the Bishop Potter mansion in Newport together every season starting about 1901.
In the last years of the Cross-Redmond residency, there were no lions on the newels, suggesting they were added by the Morrons after 1919. photo by Wurts Bros. from the collection of the Museum of the City of New York
Following her brother's death on December 21, 1906, Emily continued to live on with the Cross family in the only home she had ever known. (She would, incidentally, outlive all ten of her siblings, dying at the age of 90 on January 9, 1934.)
The Redmond estate sold the leasehold to No. 6 to Henry W. Kent on March 14, 1913. Kent lived nearby at No. 80 Washington Square East. He soon transferred it to Robert de Forest, who lived in the former Johnston house at No. 7.
The eagerness of neighbors to keep control of the leasehold may have had much to do with the changing nature of the lower Fifth Avenue district. The owners of those mansions were fleeing northward to newly-fashionable neighborhoods. The Washington Square denizens, however, were adamant about preserving the patrician tone of their enclave.
In February 1914 De Forest leased the house to George Dallas Yeomans, attorney for the Brooklyn Rapid Transit Co. The timing could not have been better--the debut of Isabel S. Yeomans was on the near horizon.
On November 25, 1915 the New-York Tribune reported on Isabel's coming-out reception in the house. "The debutante had a record number of girls receiving with her. There were forty-six in line." The astoundingly long list of those in the receiving line included the names of some of the wealthiest families in New York--Alexander, Platt, Riker and Cushman among them. Following the reception young male guests arrived for dinner and dancing.
In May 1919 De Forest renewed the leasehold to No. 6 and immediately leased the house to John Reynolds Morron. The industrialist was president of both the Peter Cooper Gelatin Co. and the Chicago-based Atlas Portland Cement Company, and was a director of the First National Bank of New York, the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad, Pullman, Inc. and the International Rubber Company.
Before he and his wife, the former Belle Goodridge Burch, moved in Morron made renovations to the house. He hired architect James Gamble Rogers to install an elevator within the house and to create a two-story "brick studio" in the rear. The total cost topped a quarter of a million in today's dollars.
John Reynolds Morron, United States Passport photograph 1925
Morron's residency here was not without upheaval. In 1922 he went on trial accused of cement price-fixing. On the stand he denied that there had ever been "an agreement or understanding between his company and any other" for fixing prices or controlling distribution of cement.
Another view of the front parlor taken when the Cross family was here shows no chandelier, suggesting it was Belle Morron who installed the antique crystal fixtures in place today. Note the gas sconces stationed strangely enough on the columns. photo by Wurts Bros. from the collection of the Museum of the City of New York
The opening between the front and back parlor was necessarily narrowed to accommodate Morron's 1919 elevator (hidden within the walls separating the two parlors and entered from the hallway). photograph by the author
And then in June the following year a witness jotted down the license plate number of the get-away car used in the holdup of Joseph Szabo. The three perpetrators had robbed the businessman of $887. Unfortunately, the plate number came back to John R. Morron.
On July 19 detectives entered Morron's garage and examined his automobile. The New York Times reported that it "had not left the garage in at least a week, and that the plates gave no evidence of having been temporarily removed." The witness had apparently incorrectly remembered the tag number.
A few weeks earlier Morron's name had been linked with another run-in with the law; although this one was much less serious. Proud of his aristocratic residence, Morron hired Connecticut artist Ozias Dodge to make a sketch of the house. On May 17, 1923 he began, but, according to The New York Times, "He found he could not get far enough back from the house to get all the trees of the Morrin [sic] home in the perspective of his drawing without climbing over the fence of Washington Square Park." The Morron butler kindly brought a chair from the house for the artist to use.
Washington Square in 1923, however, was far different from today. Park goers were expected to stay on the pathways and the grass was strictly off limits. But Dodge had been promised a permit to "work on the forbidden ground" by his friend, the Secretary of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Dodge's mistake was that in his hurry he did not bother getting that permit.
The artist needed only five minutes on the grass to complete the sketch and had been there three minutes when he was ordered to move by Patrolman Harry J. Booth. Dodge refused. "He said he had worked all over New York and even in Paris without being treated that way before." Patrolman Booth lost his patience and arrested him.
The bronze lions, seen here in 1932, were later stolen. Only one was recovered. The plaster copies made from it now grace the newels and the original is kept safely inside an NYU building. photograph by Gottscho-Schleisner, Inc from the collection of the Museum of the City of New York
At the Essex Market Court Dodge pleaded guilty "but contended that the policeman had not shown common sense." He was given a suspended sentence and advised not to go back to the same spot to complete the sketch.
Belle died around 1945 and John died at his summer residence in Littleton, New Hampshire on June 25, 1950. He was 82.
No. 6 was acquired by New York University later that year. It now held the leases on Nos. 1 through 6. Gently renovated for office space, it was joined internally to Nos. 5 and 7 by doorways placed in unobtrusive locations on different floors.
A second floor bedroom as it appeared when Emily Redmond and the Cross family occupied the house. photo by Wurts Bros. from the collection of the Museum of the City of New York
A doorway accessing No. 5 Washington Square can be seen to the right of the window today. photograph by the author
Today the former Saul Alley mansion is home to the the administrations for both NYU's Graduate School of Arts and Science, and the Faculty of Arts and Science. The university deserves high praise for carefully preserving so much of the historic interiors.
Many thanks to NYU associate Dale Rejtmar for his invaluable input.
Source: http://daytoninmanhattan.blogspot.com/2019/02/the-1833-saul-alley-mansion-6.html
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Italian Wine Dinner at Atera
Please join us at Atera on Wednesday, October 17th, 2018 for an intimate wine dinner to celebrate the country of Italy.
We will take a tour around the country from the classics of Piedmont and Tuscany, to the wines of Sicily and Fruili. Chef Ronny has prepared a tasting menu to accompany the wines. This dinner will be in our library room.
The price is $650 per person, (includes gratuity). Please email [email protected] to reserve seats.
Source: https://www.localwineevents.com/events/detail/732384/Italian-Wine-Dinner-at-Atera
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Pre-storm prep in Tompkins Square Park
Ahead of Harper's arrival this weekend, the squirrels of Tompkins Square Park are stocking up on essentials, including peanuts ... peanut butter ... bananas ... pizza ... Hershey's Cocoa ... Toaster Strudel ... coconut drinks ... and don't forget spoons.
Photo today by Derek Berg.
Source: http://evgrieve.com/2019/01/pre-storm-prep-in-tompkins-square-park.html
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New Yorkers Vote Overwhelmingly to Impose Community Board Term Limits
Community Board 3 meeting, July 2017
The people of New York City have spoken, and it’s in favor of term limits for community boards.
The populace voted Tuesday in favor of the controversial “Proposal 3,” which imposes an eight-year term limit on the volunteer members sitting on community boards around the Five Boroughs (i.e. four consecutive two-year terms, but can rejoin after two-year hiatus). The measure, introduced as part of the city’s Charter Revision Commission process, ultimately passed with an overwhelming 72-percent of voters saying “yes.”
Those in opposition to the proposal had argued that a reset of personnel every eight years would result in a loss of institutional knowledge that could be exploited by special interests.
Graph imagery via New York Times
Here on the Lower East Side, we might expect an enema for Community Board 3.
How do you think this change will affect the Lower East Side?
Source: https://www.boweryboogie.com/2018/11/new-yorkers-vote-overwhelmingly-to-impose-community-board-term-limits/
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#VillaForever | David Villa Surprises Fans
On the night of David Villa’s farewell event in Manhattan, NYCFC invited some fans to arrive early to take part in a special tribute video for the Captain as he departs after four incredible years at the Club. However, the NYCFC Digital team had a little surprise in store...
Source: https://www.nycfc.com/post/2018/12/04/villaforever-david-villa-surprises-fans
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