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Circa 1910, a postcard of the Cathedral of St. John the Divine on Morningside Heights:
There’s only one problem: that’s not what the cathedral looked like then or looks like now. The biggest difference is that the crossing tower was never started. There’s a Guastavino dome at the crossing serving as a “temporary” roof…built 123 years ago, now part of the landmar...
From 2018, a nasty surprise after the ceiling was removed:
More specifically, the gypsum board ceiling that had been put in place below the original plaster was removed, exposing the plaster, and the failure of the plaster, and the failure of the bottom of the cinder-concrete slab, and the failure of much of the wire-mesh reinforcing. The short version: the roof...
I let this series languish for a while…
The stoop of an 1825 rowhouse, with a simple wrought-iron handrail:
The newel post is, of course, cast iron, but the rest of the rail is wrought iron. If you look carefully at the stone steps, you can see that the part of each step from the handrail embedments to the near edge is darker colored than the body of t...
More evident alterations at an old subway station, similar to one I discussed a couple of years ago. A view of the westbound-platform roof at the Kosciuszko Street station on the J train:
(I’ve redacted a few passers-by.)There’s a lot going, ...
Max Hubacher, on December 21, 1954, titled this photo “New York City: Third Avenue Elevated”:
And, sure enough, there’s the el over Third Avenue on the right. The small park being enjoyed only by pigeons is Cooper Square, where (if you are heading south to north) the Bowery splits into Third Avenue (on its proper line) and Fourth Avenue (on a temporary diagonal ...