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Image credits: Old-time Photos To learn more about the fascinating world of photography from the past, we got in touch with Ed Padmore, founder of Vintage Photo Lab.Ed was kind enough to have a ...
The Hudson Guild is a community-based social services organization rooted in and primarily focused on the Chelsea neighborhood of Manhattan, New York City. It was founded in 1897 by Dr. John Lovejoy Elliott as a settlement house , with the intention of helping to alleviate the problems of the immigrant community of Chelsea's industrial area.
111 Eighth Avenue occupies the full city block between Eighth and Ninth Avenues and 15th and 16th Streets in the Chelsea neighborhood of Manhattan, New York City. [1] The building, completed in 1932, was designed by Lusby Simpson of Abbott, Merkt & Co. [2] [3] The building is 15 stories tall and has 2.9 million square feet (270,000 m 2) of floor space, more than the Empire State Building; [4 ...
The building suffered some damage in the January 1882 fire that destroyed the former Potter Building (and former home of the New York World). [9] But it remained standing until around 1888 or 1889. [10] [11] 1852 map showing location of Lovejoy's Hotel. Barnum's American Museum can be seen at the top left.
By 1917, New York was funding the world war efforts of Britain, France and for other Allies. By the 1920s, New York had surpassed London as a world banking center. The New York Stock Exchange was the national focus of wealth making and speculation until its shares suddenly collapsed late in 1929, setting off the worldwide Great Depression. [90]
The pictures may have gotten smaller, but these women are still big. Death Becomes Herses: “Sunset Boulevard”, “The Substance”, and the tragedy/triumph of being 50 going on 25 Skip to main ...
Although the hotel's owners claimed that (212) 736-5000 was "the oldest continuously in-service telephone number in New York", [268] the veracity of this claim is disputed. [269] [270] Phone numbers in New York City existed as early as the 1880s, [269] and the phone number may have been changed at some point before 1992. [270]
A 1973 photo of New York City skyscrapers in smog. From November 23 to 26, 1966, New York City was covered by a major smog episode, filling the city's air with damaging levels of several toxic pollutants. The smog was caused by a combination of factors, including the use of coal-burning power plants, the heavy traffic on the city's roads, and ...