The Crimes of Old Chinatown Seem Trivial Compared to How the Place Looks Now…Old Chinatown, 18 Mott Street, New York, New York
The Crimes of Old Chinatown Seem Trivial Compared to How the Place Looks Now…Old Chinatown, 18 Mott Street, New York, New York
In the early 20th century, in a block that had unofficially evolved into the hub of the popular “Chinese Lottery” as well as the “Chinese mafia,” Mott Street was a small but yet premier thoroughfare [...]
Home Depot Light Fixtures Lead The Way in Columbia Heights, Washington DC
Guided by the light of 2 neon nipples, he stumbled up the steps of his colonial revival…
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Niblo’s Vault is Not Just a Monument, It Represents a Legacy, William Niblo, Broadway Impresario, Niblo’s Garden, New York, New York
Niblo’s Vault is Not Just a Monument, It Represents a Legacy, William Niblo, Broadway Impresario, Niblo’s Garden, New York, New York
When the eminent Broadway Impresario, William B. Niblo’s wife, Martha King Niblo, died in 1851, he erected a substantial Gothic Revival mausoleum on prime lots in Brooklyn’s Greenwood Cemetery. And roughly two decades later, Niblo, [...]
Former “Queer” Bath House, 32 W. 28th Street, New York
As you can tell from this early twentieth century post card, it probably didn’t take James Everard long to establish a robust clientele of lifetime bachelors in the day and age of the unsaid and unspeakable…
The baths would eventually go from Turkish to Roman to Electric to “Greek” style and would last well into the [...]
