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Former U.S. soldier Anthony Aguilar spent several months in #Gaza during the ongoing #genocide. He thought he was going to help deliver aid to Palestinians being starved by Israel, but what he saw was a scheme to force Palestinians out of their land. #Zionism > youtube.com/watch?v=DkOSWShgI_c
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Working under what newspapers called a "curse," 28 of America's most esteemed sculptors created the Dewey Triumphal Arch. It was demolished the following year.
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The Lost Dewey Triumphal Arch - Fifth Avenue and 24th Street
from the program of The Dewey Reception in New York City, 1899 (copyright expired) Commodore George Dewey's fleet was anchored near Hong K...
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December 29, 2025 at 11:24 AM
Working under what newspapers called a "curse," 28 of America's most esteemed sculptors created the Dewey Triumphal Arch. It was demolished the following year.
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Greatly altered today, this ca 1830 LES bldg was the home and barber shop of John Roesch for decades. Today apts fill the upper floors above a diner.
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The John M. Roesch House - 247 East Houston Street
Mary Ellison Lacour occupied the recently-built two-and-a-half story house at 247 East Houston Street in 1834. She was the widow of Peter...
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December 27, 2025 at 11:29 AM
Greatly altered today, this ca 1830 LES bldg was the home and barber shop of John Roesch for decades. Today apts fill the upper floors above a diner.
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Designed by Frederick C. Zobel, this Rose Hill building became the NYS Optometric Center in the 1970s and early '80s. It is residential today.
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The 1907 Camera Building -- 122-124 East 25th Street
On April 27, 1907, the Brunswick Realty Co. acquired the two vintage, three-story houses at 122 and 124 East 25th Street and hired archite...
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December 26, 2025 at 10:09 AM
Designed by Frederick C. Zobel, this Rose Hill building became the NYS Optometric Center in the 1970s and early '80s. It is residential today.
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The Trump Class Battleship that the US Navy doesn’t want.
December 26, 2025 at 4:06 AM
The Trump Class Battleship that the US Navy doesn’t want.
When a picture is worth a thousand words...
December 26, 2025 at 4:02 AM
When a picture is worth a thousand words...
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This Greenwich Village flat building was threatened by Robert Moses's 8-lane Lower Manhattan Expressway. Happily that never happened.
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Francis A. Minuth's 1889 19 Bedford Street
Cast iron piers on each side of the ground floor are all that remain of the 19th century storefront. When Bedford Street was laid out in 1...
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December 25, 2025 at 9:46 AM
This Greenwich Village flat building was threatened by Robert Moses's 8-lane Lower Manhattan Expressway. Happily that never happened.
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Designed by James M. Farnsworth, this flat building sat within the East Village's art center at mid-century, home to artist Raymond P. Spillenger and the important March Gallery.
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James M. Farnworth's 1886 95 East 10th Street
photo by Ted Leather During the trial over purported damages to properties caused by the New York Elevated Railroad Company's erection of ...
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December 24, 2025 at 9:13 AM
Designed by James M. Farnsworth, this flat building sat within the East Village's art center at mid-century, home to artist Raymond P. Spillenger and the important March Gallery.
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Erected in 1872, this Italianate rowhouse would be commonplace anywhere else in the city, but is surprising on the Upper West Side. Living here at mid-century was pioneering Black ballet dancer Janet Collins.
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The Edwin and Carolyn Islee House - 49 West 92nd Street
photograph by Anthony Bellov Sidney C. Genin was among the first of the developers to recognize the potential of what was called the West ...
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December 23, 2025 at 11:08 AM
Erected in 1872, this Italianate rowhouse would be commonplace anywhere else in the city, but is surprising on the Upper West Side. Living here at mid-century was pioneering Black ballet dancer Janet Collins.
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Designed by Jacob W. Mould, the Church of the Holy Trinity stood on its Midtown site only 8 yrs.
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The Lost Church of the Holy Trinity - Madison Avenue and 42nd Street
from the collection of the Museum of the City of New York A succinct announcement in the New-York Daily Tribune on August 20, 1864 read, ...
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December 22, 2025 at 11:19 AM
Designed by Jacob W. Mould, the Church of the Holy Trinity stood on its Midtown site only 8 yrs.
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Long the home of the Laird family and its fish and oyster stop, this 6th av bldg. was recently renovated. The Wine Gallery has been here since the 1970s.
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The James L. Laird House - 576 Sixth Avenue
The windows originally wore molded lintels. Around 1851, a brownstone-faced four-story house-and-store was erected at 252 Sixth Avenue, ju...
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December 20, 2025 at 10:53 AM
Long the home of the Laird family and its fish and oyster stop, this 6th av bldg. was recently renovated. The Wine Gallery has been here since the 1970s.
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Greatly altered and covered with stucco, this 208-yr-old wooden building is among the oldest in Greenwich Village.
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The 1817 385 Bleecker Street
image via loopnet.com In 1815, retired clothing merchant Aaron Henry purchased a large tract of land in Greenwich Village. The recently b...
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December 19, 2025 at 11:03 AM
Greatly altered and covered with stucco, this 208-yr-old wooden building is among the oldest in Greenwich Village.
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This... from the Australian cartoonist and illustrator, 'First Dog on the Moon' (aka Andrew Marlton).
December 18, 2025 at 11:12 PM
This... from the Australian cartoonist and illustrator, 'First Dog on the Moon' (aka Andrew Marlton).
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Designed by Walter M. Mason, the Springs Bldg, known as the The Exchange today, has an extraordinary history of crime and one murder.
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The 1926 Springs Building - 15 West 47th Street
Even before Eli Baxter Springs arrived in New York City from the Deep South, he had had a fascinating life and career. He was born at his...
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December 18, 2025 at 11:22 AM
Designed by Walter M. Mason, the Springs Bldg, known as the The Exchange today, has an extraordinary history of crime and one murder.
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These weren’t just movies. They were emotional landmarks. People lived inside them. Passed them down. Quoted them without realizing they were echoing a worldview that made room for tenderness, for companionship, for love that didn’t demand humiliation as its price.
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What Endures
On what they built and what he destroys
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December 17, 2025 at 9:37 PM
These weren’t just movies. They were emotional landmarks. People lived inside them. Passed them down. Quoted them without realizing they were echoing a worldview that made room for tenderness, for companionship, for love that didn’t demand humiliation as its price.
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Erected on land rented from Hamilton Fish, tenants in this East Village house have included an opera singer, an actress, and a one-legged pedophile. It is a 2-family home today.
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D. & J. Jardine's 1867 110 East 10th Street
photograph by the author U.S. Senator Hamilton Fish inherited land from the estate of his mother, Elizabeth Stuyvesant Fish. On May 1, 18...
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December 17, 2025 at 10:56 AM
Erected on land rented from Hamilton Fish, tenants in this East Village house have included an opera singer, an actress, and a one-legged pedophile. It is a 2-family home today.
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The scene of a sensational murder in 1923, this Thom & Wilson-designed rowhouse was converted to apts in 1954. Among its tenants beginning in 1958 was singer Billie Holliday.
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December 16, 2025 at 11:15 AM
The scene of a sensational murder in 1923, this Thom & Wilson-designed rowhouse was converted to apts in 1954. Among its tenants beginning in 1958 was singer Billie Holliday.
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Built in 1821 and faced in marble, the Washington Institute was situated on 13th St, north of the city. In 1845 the school moved to Murray Hill and this bldg was razed.
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The Lost Washington Institute - 13th Street and Third Avenue
The district around the facility was decidedly rural. In the background is the city's new reservoir. Views in New-York and its Environs...
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December 15, 2025 at 11:07 AM
Built in 1821 and faced in marble, the Washington Institute was situated on 13th St, north of the city. In 1845 the school moved to Murray Hill and this bldg was razed.
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MUBI RETROSPECTIVE 2025
December 14, 2025 at 6:28 AM
MUBI RETROSPECTIVE 2025
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Erected in the mid-1850s, this Kips Bay rowhouse straddles Greek Revival and Italianate styles, and was owned by just 2 families in the 19th c. A 4th floor was added in 2007.
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The Nehemiah Cohn House - 250 East 33rd Street
photo by Anthony Bellov Around 1855, a long row of brick-faced homes was erected on the south side of East 33rd Street between Second and ...
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December 13, 2025 at 11:20 AM
Erected in the mid-1850s, this Kips Bay rowhouse straddles Greek Revival and Italianate styles, and was owned by just 2 families in the 19th c. A 4th floor was added in 2007.
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Built as a high-stooped brownstone, Albro & Lindeberg transformed this E 77th St house to a striking Edwardian townhouse in 1907. It is a single-family home today.
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The Edward T. and Viola B. Cockcroft House - 59 East 77th Street
When John McNerney commissioned architect Thomas S. Godwin to design eight rowhouses on the north side of East 77th Street between Madison...
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December 12, 2025 at 10:35 AM
Built as a high-stooped brownstone, Albro & Lindeberg transformed this E 77th St house to a striking Edwardian townhouse in 1907. It is a single-family home today.
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History's Most Predictable Punchlines - thanks to @kornetzke.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/oliverko...
History’s Most Predictable Punchlines
Ionian Revolt (499–493 BCE):
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December 12, 2025 at 7:58 AM
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Despite suffering no fewer than three fires in its 171 year existence, this marble-clad Tribeca building beautifully survives. It converted to residential use in 2013.
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The 1854 55 Warren Street (aka 55 Murray)
photograph by Anthony Bellov A French family resided in the vintage house at 55 Murray Street between West Broadway and Church Street in 1...
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December 11, 2025 at 11:34 AM
Despite suffering no fewer than three fires in its 171 year existence, this marble-clad Tribeca building beautifully survives. It converted to residential use in 2013.
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