Designed by Ralph S. Townsend, the interior elements of this #UpperWestSide were stored during a renovation in the 1960s. They were meticulously restored in the early 2000s.
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The Lost 1872 Van Rensselaer Building - 476 Broadway from the collection of the Library of Congress When the two identical Federal-style houses at 474 and 476 Broadway were erected around 1825,...

Richard Morris Hunt's masterwork in polychromed cast iron in Soho stood only 29 years, razed in 1901.
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Tonight was a very bad night.

Sleepy Don... Wake the feck up and do your job!

The Moses M. Bradley House - 212 East 32nd Street An apartment door was installed in the basement in 1990 and the parlor windows shortened.  photograph by Anthony Bellov It appears that i...

In preparing her $1.50 goose in 1896, Katie Rosenthal, owner of this Kips Bay house, discovered a diamond inside. (The butcher raised his prices.) It has a basement apt. today.
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The DeWitt and Victorine Cole House - 436 West 20th Street Clement Clark Moore donated the block of Ninth to Tenth Avenues from 20th to 21st Street in 1818.  Six years later, the first building of ...

Among the celebrated residents of this Greenwich Village house were Glenn Close, Courtney Love and Frances Garr.
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YouTube video by Jim Lesses Irene's Kitchen: Vegetarian Feta Cheese Pie

#VEGETARIAN FILO & FETA PIE. Another in my occasional IRENE'S KITCHEN series filmed on the Aegean #BlueZone island, Ikaria. youtu.be/rnJ4QoeSJUs #recipe

The 1898 Swannanoa - 105-107 East 15th Street On July 15, 1897, David Greene sold the "three story brick store" at 105 East 15th Street and the "three-story frame dwelling" next door at ...

Designed by Gilbert A. Schellinger, The Swannanoa's occupants have included writers, artists and actors, including Georgia Vere Tyler and John Howard Jewett.
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The 1900 Samuel Haas Mansion - 15 East 80th Street Samuel Paul Haas was president of Haas Brothers Ladies Tailoring Co.  On October 30, 1898, he and his wife, Isabella, purchased the 21-foo...

David Sicher, who lived in this Brun & Hauser-designed mansion beginning in 1904, established free schools for his factory workers and pressed for minimum wages. It is a single-family home today
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Emery Roth's 1929 110 West 86th Street image via cocoran.com On March 18, 1928, The New York Times reported that builder David Zimmerman "purchased from Benjamin Benenson the f...

Among the residents of this Emery Roth-designed bldg have been actress Margaret Linn, playwright Corinne Jacker, and economist J. Wilner Sundelson.
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The first honest American president Trump's shameless corruption is not a deviation from American history but its fulfilment.

The perfect summation of today's dis-United States... www.aljazeera.com/opinions/202...

The Lost Madison Avenue Baptist Church - 131 Madison Avenue photo by Byron Company, from the collection of the Museum of the City of New York   Organized in 1838, in 1849 the Rose Hill Church chang...

Designed by Henry C. Dudley in 1859, the Madison Ave Baptist Church survived until 1929, replaced with the Rogers Williams Hotel that included worship space for the church.
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My #ReadingWrapUp for October: four Audiobooks, four print books, and one eBook, 'The Year of Magical Thinking', by Joan Didion. #BookSky #Books

The 1910 R. Tassi & Sons Garage - 45-47 Downing Street Automobiles were changing the streets of New York City in the first years of the 20th century, but only the wealthy could afford them.  Th...

Originally a "car stable," this #GreenwichVillage garage became an event venue in the 1980s. It continues such today as "45 Downing."
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Once Upon A Time in The West

A peek inside my Christmas bookbox. Every year I take a box of books that I have read to our family gathering and let people choose what they want. This is what it have put together so far. #booksky #regifting

Yorgos Lanthimos does it again! He gives people a reason to leave the house and go to the movies. Few other directors do that anymore (come back Quentin T, we need you).

If Jesse Plemons doesn't get an Oscar nomination, I will eat my 'proverbial' hat. And yes, it's a great film.

I don't usually do Halloween, but my niece wanted to see Eraserhead on the big screen, so we headed to our local cinema to take a peek inside David Lynch's head. In 70 years of film viewing, I have never seen anything as weird as #Eraserhead! #filmsky #DavidLynch

Thought for the month: There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man. True nobility is being superior to your former self. ~ Ernest Hemingway.

Why South Australians are embracing libraries after dark - News | InDaily, Inside South Australia South Australian libraries are changing how people make use of these beloved community spaces by opening their doors after dark.

I've been using Libby for years. Ask your local library if they offer Kanopy and/or Beamafilm. I have access to both here in Australia, and both offer free movie streaming! #booksky #libraries FYI: www.indailysa.com.au/news/in-dept...

One may also ask: What right do we have to expect authors, musicians, artists, directors, actors, and other creatives to produce one 'masterpiece' after another? It should be enough that they have achieved the 'impossible' once, twice or even three times, but surely not *every* time. #booksky

I wonder how many Oath Keepers, 3%-ers, Arizona Vipers, KKK members, Sons of Liberty, and men from all those other paramilitary groups have joined ICE, and been given an open licence to abuse, harass, beat, grope, rape, leer, and lord it over innocent men, women and children. tinyurl.com/2z6c4mum

As much as I dislike Donald T. Rump and his current administration, I must give them credit for exposing once and for all the great American 'bastion of freedom and democracy' B/S. 300+yrs of Indian Wars, Slavery, Jim Crow, CIA coups, Cuban blockades, etc, etc., expose the lie behind the myths.

This 77 y/o white Australian male has been reading black authors since the 60's. James Baldwin, George Jackson, Angela Davis, Zora Neale., Langston H, M. Angelou, Gayl Jones, Jesmyn Ward, and others. If you don't know where to start, grab a copy of Well-Read Black Girl (2019), Ed., by Glory Edim.

Open a #Bandcamp account and support musicians by buying direct. Most albums are $10. Instead of getting fractions of a cent for each play they earn a real income.

The Tammany Central Assoc. Clubhouse - 226 East 32nd Street photo via zillow.com Around 1855, a trio of Anglo-Italianate rowhouses was erected on East 32nd Street between Second and Third Avenues.  ...

This Anglo-Italianate rowhouse in Kips Bay was the clubhouse of the Tammany Central Assoc. from 1911 to 1963. It holds apartments today.
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The Joshua B. Jenkins House - 33 Stuyvesant Street On September 16, 1854, Matthias Banta purchased the triangular parcel that wrapped the north side of Stuyvesant Street and along the south...

With her Victorian garments ablaze, the owner of this Renwick-designed house met a gruesome end in 1890.
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[Jimmy Kimmel] Japanese Prime Minister with Stupid Trump.

All #audiobooks except 'We' are available via the #Libby app. 'We' is available as a free download from Apple books.

Note: Elliott Chaze and Elmore Leonard books are from Archive.org. Some titles are free via Apple Books or Gutenberg.org. Kerouac, and Didion bought thru Apple Books.