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4 days ago · Though the date listed in the Library of Congress photo is 1905, through some group digging on the Facebook group Old Images of New York, we were able to put the date between 1898-1900, the years ...
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5 days ago · Gritty Old Times Square Tour. 1. The Republic Theatre, 1900 – Now the New Victory Theater. The New Victory Theater, at 209 West 42nd St, was built in 1900 as the Republic Theatre. It was opened ...
1 day ago · New York City is the largest and most influential American metropolis and the most populous and the most international city in the country. Located where the Hudson and East rivers empty into one of the world’s premier harbors, New York is both the gateway to the North American continent and its preferred exit to the oceans of the globe.
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5 days ago · OCTAPOLES AND BELLS. by Kevin Walsh February 15, 2024 4 comments. SINCE the beginnings of Forgotten NY in 1999 I have periodically talked about “Octapoles,” NYC’s standard silver-colored lampposts whose shafts have eight sides, hence my name for them. They have…. Read more. Street Lamps.
15 hours ago · The bulk of immigrants who came to New York City in the late 19th and early 20th centuries came to the Lower East Side, moving into crowded tenements there. [34] By the 1840s, large numbers of German immigrants settled in the area, and a large part of it became known as " Little Germany " or "Kleindeutschland".
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2 days ago · Construction. Commissioned. March 1811. Fifth Avenue is a major and prominent thoroughfare in the borough of Manhattan in New York City. The avenue stretches downtown (southward) from West 143rd Street in Harlem to Washington Square Park in Greenwich Village. Fifth Avenue in Midtown Manhattan is the most expensive shopping street in the world.