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The map depicts the entire length of the island of Manhattan, although not to scale, and is surrounded by period advertisements and portraits of various businesses in New York and New Jersey. Original prints sold for $10 "on spring rollers", or $12.50 "in black walnut or gilt case with handsome cornice". [2] The original map was 188 by 107 ...
Metropolis founder Stephen Fishler is credited with creating the 10 point grading scale that is used industry wide for valuing comic books. He did not create the nomenclature grades (e.g. Very Fine, Near Mint), but organized what was once a 42-point system into the 10-point grading scale, which he convinced the Overstreet Comic Book Price Guide to adopt, and was later embraced by the Certified ...
The power plant was constructed by the New York Edison Company. Waterside No. 1, which was located between East 38th and 39th streets, began operations in October 1901. [5] Electric power was initially generated in the form of 6,600-volt, three phase, 25-cycle alternating current by a
The couple's loft-style building at 496 Broome Street, which has stayed in the family for all these years, has been listed for sale for $5.5 million, according to The New York Times. Annual taxes ...
Owner: City of New York: Maintained by: NYCDOT: Length: 6.3 mi (10.1 km) [1] Location: Manhattan, New York City: South end: Houston / Allen Streets in Lower East Side: Major junctions: FDR Drive / Willis Avenue Bridge in East Harlem: North end: East 127th Street in East Harlem: East: Avenue A (Houston–14th Sts) Sutton Place (53rd–59th Sts ...
USL's then-owner Walter Kidde & Company reportedly "nearly sold" 1 Broadway in 1972, but USL withdrew the building from sale due to a decline in New York City's real estate prices. [55] USL also proposed replacing 1 Broadway with a 50-story skyscraper in 1970, which would have entailed taking air rights from the nearby Alexander Hamilton U.S ...
New York City's piers and wharves were the most valuable assets of the New York City government in the 1860s, [2] worth almost $15.8 million without any repairs in 1867. [3] Nevertheless, by that time they had been in such a poor state of repair as to drive steamboat companies to other nearby cities such as Hoboken and Jersey City . [ 4 ]
opened by the Broadway and Seventh Avenue Railroad in 1864; leased by the Houston, West Street and Pavonia Ferry Railroad in 1893; leased by the Metropolitan Street Railway in 1893; leased by New York Railways in 1911; replaced by New York City Omnibus Corporation buses on February 12, 1936 (now the M5 bus) New York Railways: Lexington Avenue Line