Things To See in New York: Part II

Garbage on the streets. The underwhelming new Whitney. Boring musicals. Traffic. Several Pret a Mangers. Several Au Bon Pain establishments. An overpriced McDonalds. Times Square chain stores (oh look I bought a pillow that looks like an M&M!)

New York was waaaay better when Matt Lauer was on TV.

NYC is not NYC anymore.

Back in the early 2000s Samantha complained about what NYC had become in SATC. I wonder what she would feel now, years later and it’s even more boring and sanitized.

1600 Broadway on the Square/Times Square M&M Store. Home to Ashley Parker Angel and Greta Van Susteren.

The first thread is out of commission?

I enjoyed your enthusiasm but was unable to post or even scroll through it and view photos. I attempted to post the Sullivan Street photo, but it wasn't working and I didn't want to end up with several posts. We can retreat back there if we must...

No, that's cool. We can use this thread. I'm using a laptop so I didn't realise some people were having trouble viewing the first thread. I'm glad you're still interested in the topic.

This is kind of a cool photo near the end of the first thread.

When tragedy strikes NYC (and it will one day), it’s going to be BAD with those new buildings.

No one is using their brains.

I'd read it wasn't working well on phones but I'm on a laptop too.

The black and white checkered sidewalks around The Pierre.

the first thread was great, interesting postings of unusual and off the beaten track sights in nyc.

then for some reason after a few hundred posts it became "subscription only" and died

That "subscription only" got me to subscribe. It worked.

480 Park Avenue. Home to Iris Apfel and, as I learned last night in the Natalie Schafer thread, the former home of Natalie Schafer.

23 Park Avenue on the corner of East 35th Street in the Murray Hill neighborhood of Manhattan, New York City was built in 1888-92 and was designed in the Italian Renaissance revival style by McKim, Mead & White, with Stanford White as the partner-in-charge. The town house was constructed as the residence of James Hampden Robb, a retired businessman and civic leader, and his wife Cornelia Van Rensselaer Robb. In 1923 it was bought by the Advertising Club to be its clubhouse, and was converted to apartments in 1977. The building was designated a NYC landmark in 1979

The Sherry Netherland Hotel

When pic threads pass 200 posts, they're impossible to manage on a phone. Plus the original was "subscribers only."

I never got the "subscribers only" message on the first thread but the photos stopped appearing inline or whatever the correct term is. You couldn't skim through the photos by scrolling down. You had to click on the link in each post to see the photo. That went away when I got a subscription.

Collectors Club, 22 East 35th Street

Colony Club

Colony Club

400 Riverside Drive

400 Riverside Drive

93-99 Nassau Street

NYC died with Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis.

Some great architecture pics - keep it up. Because it’s all so jumbled, it can be hard to appreciate the great buildings of NYC. I appreciate Philly, DC and Boston more because the buildings stand out. In NYC even great buildings get lost in the chaos.

1740 Broadway

R22 superb!

Why, thank you, R26. I saw an architectural detail of the building in the "AIA Guide to New York City" and then found a photo of the whole building online. Too bad the stores on the ground floor are kind of tacky.

I knew someone who lived in 99 Nassau a while ago. Beautiful building but hard to appreciate because it’s so jammed in between others- which is true of a lot of Wall St area buildings. The inside was dark and not particularly nice. But beautiful building especially since they cleaned it.

Thanks for the interesting background info, R28. I'll have to check it out the next time I'm in New York.

Church of the Blessed Sacrament at 152 West 71st Street

Looks like this photo is 40 West 10th Street.

Brooke Astor's building at 778 Park Avenue

Dining room at 960 Fifth Avenue photographed on January 15, 1930.

Top floors and terraces of 770 and 778 Park Avenue

I took a photo of the arch in Brooklyn's Grand Army Plaza but this one is a thousand times better.

What the hell!

10 Gracie Square, the building where Gloria Vanderbilt used to live

1 and 2 Gramercy Park West

Someone else's choice from the first thread - Old St. Patrick's Cathedral at 260 Mulberry Street

Here's the interior.

Jon Stewart used to own the penthouse in 161 Hudson Street. He bought it for $5.8 million in 2005 and sold it for $17.5 million in 2014. Jeremy Piven and Mike Piazza are/were residents of this building.

R41 I’ve never understood how someone would pay millions to live in that buildings. It’s literally at the mouth of the Holland Tunnel spewing pollution, cars, noise, combined with huge traffic jams of cars trying to get into the tunnel. Why that area - specifically on Hudson and around the tunnel -has so many super expensive apartments makes no sense. Give me the West Village any day - especially if I’m paying $15 million.

Again, I've only visited New York about 4 or 5 times, R42. I've never been a resident so all of this speculation. In fact, I've never visited SoHo, the West Village and Tribeca.

I noticed that Meryl Streep's former apartment at 92 Laight Street is quite close to Jon Stewart's old apartment at 161 Hudson Street. My guess is that this part of town appeals to celebrities because it's out of the way and doesn't attract many tourists. I can't imagine a tourist spending much time wandering around this neighborhood unless he is obsessed with early 20th century commercial architecture. There don't seem to be many people walking on the sidewalk in this part of town if you look at Google street view. And yet SoHo and the West Village aren't that far away. The latter two have art galleries, restaurants, bars and shops and probably attract a lot more out of town tourists and the bridge and tunnel crowd. I remember Alec Baldwin jokingly complaining that when he moved to the West Village, he would hear people who had one too many drinks arguing late at night, ie. a much busier nightlife.

I agree that much of the West Village is more charming and built to a more human scale than the big hulking warehouses and commercial buildings in Tribeca.

I really wonder what Jon Stewart's life was like when he lived on Hudson Street. I'm sure much of his day was taken up with work but when he had time off, would he go for walks in his immediate neighbourhood? Or would he spend a lot of time hiring cars and getting dropped off exactly where he wanted to go because he's a celebrity and would get hassled too much if he went for a walk. I wonder if the immediate neighborhood has everything a person needs, eg. grocery stores, or if all that stuff has to be picked up or ordered in from further away. I wonder if his wife would do the shopping or if they had a cook or assistants to take care of that.

I can understand celebrities preferring to live in big buildings with many apartments because of the better security. If you're a celebrity living in a townhouse in the West Village, any crazy obsessed fan who figures out your address can walk up to your front door and knock, or wait around your house until you show up.

Good point R43. It is a relatively tourist free area. Also not a lot of services or as many restaurants - but I guess they get driven there and have everything delivered.

The other reason is the apartments in TriBeCa tend to be uniformly large lofts. So everyone is homogenously wealthy. Unlike the Village where there are still some cheap(er) studios in old walk ups. And the nightlife does attest crowds - somTribeca is good for avoiding both.

57 East 64th Street

57 East 64th Street

54 East 64th Street

Lobby of 19 East 72nd Street in 1937

Entrance hall of Thomas Cochrane's apartment at 856 Fifth Avenue in 1930.

Porte-Cochère of 1 Sutton Place South, once home to Bill Blass and Consuelo Vanderbilt, who was the cousin of Winston Churchill

Dining room in 834 Fifth Avenue in 1931. The apartment was purchased by Rupert Murdoch in 2006 for $46 million.

View of Manhattan Bridge from Washington Street in Brooklyn

Empire State Building in the background

Entrance to the Chrysler Building

Lobby of General Electric Building at 570 Lexington Avenue

570 Lexington Avenue

570 Lexington Avenue

So you’re telling me that Anna Wintour gets into her town car every morning while trying not to see the “acupressure” storefront that is totally not an organized crime front across the street?

R12 also the home of film actress Glenda Farrell.

R43 In 2008, Mike Piazza sold his penthouse at 161 Hudson Street for more than $6 million, Moved to Florida.

Good to know, R61. Thank you.

Yes, R59, but the townhouses along Sullivan Street and Macdougal Street do have access to a private courtyard with a garden.

Skyline from Brooklyn Bridge Park

Agree R59. I’ve never like that block. The courtyard is the only redeeming feature - though I’ve never seen it, it does seem nice and a unique feature. She’s lived there forever. I personally prefer the West Village to the central Village.

I enjoyed the tv show White Collar - which really showed off New York City. Anybody know where June's house was?

A poster from the original thread, now subscription-only, mentioned there must be a long line for the Rockefeller Center observation deck. You actually go to the website to pre-pay and reserve a specific time. Then just show up at that time and, from the throng standing outside the entrance on 50th, struggle to hear which time is being let inside now. They scan the QR code in your email on your phone. There are three levels with stairs, after you go up in the elevator. The uppermost deck is the best for photos. I had been to NYC a few times before I did this, but I would have been happy to have done this on my first visit, I think. I thought it was worth the money.

[quote]I enjoyed the tv show White Collar - which really showed off New York City. Anybody know where June's house was?

I didn't watch "White Collar" but Imdb says that the filming location for June Ellington's manor was 351 Riverside Drive, which is the Morris Schinasi House at 107th Street. It was built in 1907.

The Schinasi House is another example of the skyrocketing cost of Manhattan real estate. It was bought by Columbia law professor Hans Smit in 1979 for $325,000 and sold in 2013 for $14 million.

I assume the person in the linked article knows what she's talking about. Matt Bomer's character, Neal Caffrey, moves into the attic apartment of June's mansion. The apartment is a studio set. The terrace of Neal's apartment was shot at 5 Tudor City Place for the pilot but was recreated in studio in a much smaller version for later episodes.

Frederick Ruckstuhl statue at Appellate Courthouse, 35 East 25th Street

Lovely pecs

Another Ruckstuhl statue at 35 East 25th Street

Thanks for the helpful info, R67. Since the first thread is behind a pay wall, I'll repeat the photo of the Rockefeller Center observation deck from skyscrapercity.

The photographs of St. Patrick's Cathedral and St. Thomas Episcopal Church on this website. I couldn't post the photos because the web address is too long.

When our parents would visit NYC for our father's Wall Street business they would often stay at the Pierre, r9!

(Other favorites were the Regency and the St. Regis)

Jennifer Lopez's former? penthouse at The Whitman, 21 East 26th Street on Madison Square Park

Frick Collection

8 East 62nd Street

Where Should You Eat in New York? Go to These Favorite Spots

Whether it’s for a celebration, or for some familiar food, cooking experts and Times journalists share their top places.

^^^ Excellent article. Thanks.

rooftop of 25 Tudor City Place

You're welcome R80

International street food

Every Friday Smorgasburg -- Brooklyn's beloved street food fair -- will make its way to the Financial District for weekly local eats, vendors and a food fest that will make your mouth water.

Trump Tower (spit or piss on it for a good catharsis)

Looks like 9 East 84th Street

Halloween is October 30th.

New York Ghost tours capture the spiritual side of the Big Apple through stories of lost opportunities, political intrigue, disease and murder. With almost every step one takes through the West Village or on the Brooklyn Bridge, one encounters the ghosts and spirits of New York City’s past. Every corner has it’s stories, every building has its haunted spirits.

Richard Rodgers Theater at 226 West 46th Street

351 West End Avenue and adjacent townhouses.

Inside The New York Public Library

Campbell Apt It was first leased in 1923 by John Campbell from William Kissam Vanderbilt II, whose family built the Terminal. The 3,500-square-foot (330 m2) space was a single room 60 feet (18 m) long by 30 feet (9.1 m) wide with a 25-foot (7.6 m) ceiling and an enormous faux fireplace in which Campbell kept a steel safe. At that time, it was the largest ground floor space in Manhattan

Chanin Building

Brooklyn Museum

Clinton Avenue townhouse in Fort Greene

the Ansonia, upper west side

The Ansonia has had many celebrated residents, including baseball player Babe Ruth; writer Theodore Dreiser, in 1912; the leader of the Bahá'í Faith `Abdu'l-Bahá; Nobel prize winner in literature Isaac Bashevitz Singer; conductor Arturo Toscanini; composer Igor Stravinsky; fashion designer Koos van den Akker; and Italian tenor Enrico Caruso.

From 1977 until 1980, The Ansonia Hotel's basement was home to Plato's Retreat, an open door swinger sex club. In 1985, then Mayor Ed Koch shut the club down due to "health concerns" for "public safety." Prior to Plato's Retreat, the building housed the Continental Baths, operated by Steve Ostrow, a gay bathhouse where Bette Midler provided musical entertainment early in her career, with Barry Manilow as her accompanis

220 Central Park South

Sting bought a penthouse for $67 million. I didn't realise he had THAT kind of money, but he did sell his duplex at 15 Central Park West for $50 million last year.

Oops. That would be $65.7 million.

penthouse at 15 Central Park West

Washington Mews, just north of Washington Square Park

Nothing spectacular but kind of charming.

Governors Island is a 172 acre island in the heart of New York Harbor. It’s only 800 yards from Lower Manhattan, and even closer to Brooklyn. It is a world unto itself, unique and full of promise.

“Over the past decade, Governors Island has seen a remarkable transformation from an abandoned former military base, closed to the public, into a vibrant hub of open space, recreation and creativity in New York City,”

R40 - My husband's niece was married there. It's very beautiful.

30 years and I’ve yet to see Governors Island. Seems like such a hassle - but know I should.

I feel sorry for those who didn’t get the chance to see the old decadent Times Square and 42nd street. I first visited NYC in the early 90s and it’s already at the tail end of that era. Glad I was dry able to experience it, nyc at its most authentic.

[quote]R40 -My husband's niece was married there. It's very beautiful.

It must have been a wonderful wedding. I've never visited that church but it does look beautiful in photos.

There are tons of similar photos of the Brooklyn Bridge but I think this is one of the better ones.

281 Park Avenue

281 Park Avenue

Bethesda Terrace Stairs

Hayden Planetarium

Home to more than 200 scientists who work across the broad disciplines of anthropology, astrophysics, biology, Earth and planetary sciences, and paleontology, as well as to one of the world's most extraordinary collections of specimens and artifacts, the Museum is a leading research institution with world-class facilities and researchers who carry out 100 field expeditions around the world each year.

Brooklyn Museum

New York City's spookiest, most haunted places

The City That Never Sleeps is also the City That's Full of Ghosts

Plaza Hotel

Peninsula Hotel

Peninsula Hotel

Ford Foundation Atrium

That is a really good photo, R125. Thanks.

Entrance hall of American Museum of Natural History

Grand Central Station Tours

Visit New Yorks iconic Grand Central Station to appreciate the exquisite interiors and granduer of the historical landmark whilst capturing the daily life of the city commuters.

New York in HD ... in 1993

It's funny how people get mad when they're being filmed. Are they taking an extended "break" from work? Are they somewhere they're not supposed to be? Are they doing something sketchy? You often see people giving the finger to the camera on Google street view.

123 Remsen Street, Brooklyn

123 Remsen Street

Brooklyn Heights Promenade

This pedestrian walkway offers spectacular views of Downtown Manhattan, the East River and the Brooklyn Bridge. It’s a favorite destination for joggers, walkers and Rollerbladers, but it also offers a quiet atmosphere for those who prefer to just sit, chat and enjoy the view. The Promenade is lined with grand town houses and mansions, and is part of Brooklyn’s first Historic Preservation District.

What’s That Strange New Thing Rising in the Hudson River?

Pier 55 has drawn attention for its price tag — currently $250 million — that is being footed by the entertainment mogul Barry Diller and his wife, the fashion designer Diane von Furstenberg.

I don't know, R134. Looks too wacky and "special" to me.

Rose garden at New York Botanical Garden in the Bronx

Guggenheim Museum

Eataly

Dover Street Market

Carnegie Hall

David Zwirner Gallery

Gagosian Gallery

Once again, Cathedral of St. John the Divine

Spanish architect Santiago Calatrava's vast ribbed structure that soars over the World Trade Center Transportation Hub in New York

This looks interesting. National Geographic Encounter: Ocean Odyssey at 226 West 44th Street. Not an actual aquarium but digital projections.

Prospect Park Brooklyn

Chelsea Piers - bowling, golf, rock climbing walls, ice rinks, basketball courts.

Saks Fifth Avenue

Shakespeare in the Park

Observatory at One World Trade Center

Andrew Carnegie mansion at 2 East 91st Street, now the Cooper Hewitt Design Museum

Surtout de Table centerpiece made for Napoleon by Pierre-Philippe Thomire. On display at the Cooper Hewitt.

Be Part of the Studio Audience It's fun—and free—to attend the tapings of popular television shows shot in New York City.

Zabar's

Metropolitan Opera

Radio City Music Hall

Brooklyn Botanic Garden

Tree Lighting Ceremony

The 2019 tree will be lit for the first time on Wednesday, December 4 at Rockefeller Plaza. Each year, thousands crowd the sidewalks for the event and millions watch the live broadcast. The tree will remain lit and on display on the plaza between West 48th and 51st Streets and Fifth and Sixth Avenues through early 2020. On Christmas day, the lights shine for a full 24 hours.

Ice Skating in NY

New York's Village Halloween Parade is an annual holiday parade and street pageant presented on the night of every Halloween in the Greenwich Village neighborhood of Lower Manhattan.

Entrance to Brooklyn Central Library in Grand Army Plaza

Temperance Fountain in Union Square

Consolidated Edison building in Union Square

More Oculus

Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts is a 16.3-acre complex of buildings in the Lincoln Square neighborhood of Manhattan in New York City. It has thirty indoor and outdoor facilities and is host to 5 million visitors annually.

117 - 125 East 70th Street

News by Isamu Noguchi, a 10 ton stainless steel panel at 50 Rockefeller Plaza

Federal Building and Post Office in Brooklyn, 271-301 Cadman Plaza East

Which building was the one where Mary Tyler Moore and Pale Male the eagle lives?

Mary Tyler Moore used to live at 927 Fifth Avenue.

Pale Male and mate at 927 Fifth Avenue

Yeah but what about the mess on the pavement below.

2 East 79th Street

2 East 79th Street

2 East 79th Street

Iliad by Alexander Liberman at the Storm King Art Center in Mountainville, NY

Kykuit - the John D. Rockefeller estate in Pocantico Hills, New York

Oceanus Fountain at Kykuit

"Hippo Ballerina" by Bjørn Okholm Skaarup, across from Flatiron Building

Christmas store windows in NYC

Church of the Ascension

Knickerbocker Hotel at 142 West 42nd Street

Jane St Hotel

In 1912, the Jane St Hotel was the place where the survivors and surviving crew members of the Titanic stayed. The Jane Hotel was also the place where the crew held a special memorial service to honor all of those that died on that tragic night. While they stayed in the hotel, many of the crew and survivors still waited to see if by some miracle, some others had survived the sinking, but word never came, and even today it is believed that the Titanic crew members are still waiting for news and have taken up residence in the halls of the old hotel.

Tea House at Kykuit

Kykuit

Kykuit

Silver Corridor of Waldorf Astoria Hotel

Kykuit

66 Perry Street - Carrie Bradshaw's townhouse from "Sex and the City"

176 East 70th Street

New York Hall of Science Queens

U.N. Secretariat Building

U.N. Plaza

Street Musicians

Pianist in Washington Square Park playing Chopin

Hans Christian Anderson statue in Central Park

^^^^ Putting your hand on another guy's thigh is sexual harassment.

28 Liberty Street

Paley Park at 3 East 53rd Street

Once again, the Ford Foundation

Pepsi-Cola Building at 500 Park Avenue

Lever House

Four Freedoms Park on Roosevelt Island

The Shed, an arts center in Hudson Yards

545 West 30th Street

Male strippers at the Gaiety Theater in Times Square

Oh right. That place has closed.

St. Urban apartments - Central Park West at 89th Street

St. Urban

Bartow-Pell Mansion Museum in the Bronx

Bartow-Pell Mansion Museum

Wave Hill in the Riverdale section of the Bronx. It was built by lawyer William Lewis Morris and rented by Teddy Roosevelt and Mark Twain.

Seagram Building

View from Empire State Building

Jeff Bezos owns condominiums at The Century at 25 Central Park West

Lobby of The Century isn't that impressive.

Gramercy Park Hotel

Museum of Modern Art

Green-Wood Cemetery

Albertine bookstore at 972 Fifth Avenue, if you're fluent in French

Venetian Room at Albertine

972 Fifth Avenue

Jon Barr, who made the video at R232, is raising money for testicular cancer.

Ms. Wintour does not notice others in her atmoss, [R59].

Montauk Club, Brooklyn

178 8th Avenue, Brooklyn

Ellis Ilsand

Ellis Island

51 Madison Avenue

51 Madison Avenue

55 Wall Street

The Dakota

I just noticed on wikipedia that Albert Maysles, one of the documentary film makers who made "Grey Gardens", lived there. I didn't realise he had that kind of money.

Leonard Bernstein, Lauren Bacall, Judy Garland, Rudolph Nureyev, Rosie O'Donnell, etc. are former residents.

Fraunces Tavern at 54 Pearl Street

Contemporary art at the Met Breuer

Brookfield Place

Shows the Venetian Room in the French Consulate, Greenacre Park, Paley Park, etc.

101 Spring Street

Gapstow Bridge in Central Park - popular spot for photos.

Jessica Chastain's townhouse on the Upper West Side. It looks like 37 West 88th Street.

22 Strong Place, Cobble Hill, Brooklyn --- supposed to be the home of Daniel Craig and Rachel Weisz. It was previously owned by British novelist Martin Amis.

I assume it didn't look like this when they bought it.

Old City Hall subway station

Closed but you can get a glimpse of it if you stay on the 6 train when it turns around.

169 East 71st Street - used as the exterior for Holly Golightly's townhouse in "Breakfast at Tiffany's".

Odd building at 35 West 15th Street

230 Elizabeth Street

I don't understand why links don't work on DL. I had no problem looking at the photo at R265 and the corresponding magazine article before I posted it on DL.

Beautiful architecture of New York Public Library on Fifth Avenue

Frick Collection

Controversial statue of Theodore Roosevelt with a Native American and an African in front of the American Museum of Natural History

One Madison

Guastavino tiled ceiling on the south wing of the Municipal Building

The red brick with marble trim museum was built in 1929–30[4] and was designed by Joseph H. Freedlander in the neo-Georgian style, with statues of Alexander Hamilton and DeWitt Clinton by sculptor Adolph Alexander Weinman facing Central Park from niches in the facade

looks like Gilsey House at 1200 Broadway

120 Wall Street

Battery Park

497 Greenwich Street

City Hall Park

^^^ Looks like 500 Fifth Avenue

Oh, for craps sake. Why is it so hard to post a link?

Daniel restaurant - 60 East 65th Street

Charlotte Moss's townhouse. My guess is she lives at 134 East 71st Street.

Courtyard of Charlotte Moss's townhouse

Financier Philip Lehman's townhouse at 7 West 54th Street, built in 1900. His son Robert donated a valuable collection of paintings to the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Apple Store, Fifth Avenue at 58th Street

Apple Store

Michael Bloomberg's townhouse at 17 East 79th Street

Good heavens. Some people are so immature.

17 and 19 East 79th Street

Jann Wenner's former townhouse. It looks like 37 West 70th Street.

ABC Carpet and Home

NoMad Bar

museum at the Fashion Institute of Technology, 227 W 27th Street

Angelika Film Center

Balthazar

Veniero's

Green-Wood Cenetery in Brooklyn. They give tours. Great for birding and peaceful solitude in an arboretum. There have been a lot of TV shows and movies filmed there. It has a nice view of the Statue of Liberty and harbor. You can get married there, too.

If you’re coming from the sticks to see “the City”, then maybe this isn’t for you. But if you live in the City and haven’t been to the cemetery, you should check out their website and make the trip sometime.

Leslie-Lohman Museum of Gay and Lesbian Art at 26 Wooster Street

Harperley Hall at 1 West 64th Street

Apparently Madonna still owns an apartment there, which she jokingly offered to sublet to Meghan and Harry.

Petrossian caviar at 911 Seventh Avenue

Street murals in Bushwick, Brooklyn

Noguchi Museum in Queens

SeaGlass carousel in Battery Park

South Street Seaport

Le Bernardin

Le Bernardin

597 Fifth Avenue

Council Chamber at City Hall

Governor's Room in City Hall

City Hall

Little Singer Building at 561 Broadway

Crosby Street Hotel

Crosby Street Hotel

740 Park Avenue - one of the city's most prestigious apartment buildings.

35 East 63rd Street

Vera Wang lived in the penthouse between 2015 and 2017 while waiting for renovations on her apartment at 740 Park Avenue.

Church of St. Ignatius Loyola

St. Ignatius Loyola

St. Ignatius Loyola

St. Ignatius Loyola

Minerva and the Bell Ringers in Herald Square

Fragmentary colossal head of youth at the Metropolitan Museum of Art

312 West 71st Street

Strawberry Fields

Marble sarcophagus with Triumph of Dionysos at Metropolitan Museum of Art

Rotunda at the Pierre Hotel

Fulton Center at 200 Broadway

i lay on the sidewalk in front of the old Gaiety strip club which was located near the Paramount hotel at times square, and shed a tear,.... Stars, hores, fab folks...they all went to the Gaiety and saw the hottest stripper hores in the world.

WHTS THERE NOW???? FOR US HORE MONGERS??

omg. You lay down on a New York City sidewalk?! Do you know how dirty they are?

Well, R350, the wikipedia article says that the Gaiety Theater used to be at 201 W 46th Street and the building was eventually demolished.

The Lunt-Fontanne Theatre is at 205 W 46th Street so if you look at google street view, it looks like there's a building with an American Eagle Outfitters store on the former site of the Gaiety.

[quote]WHTS THERE NOW???? FOR US HORE MONGERS??

The internet

866 Lexington Avenue

NYC of yore

Annual parade of the Coaching Club in 1906

Federal style houses from the 1820s on Harrison Street in Tribeca

SoHo sidewalk with vault lights. Glass lenses were set in sidewalks so that daylight could reach basements.

Asia Society at 725 Park Avenue

Asia Society

Asia Society

Asia Society

Palazzo Chupi at 360 West 11th Street

3 East 78th Street

Glass and cast iron vault lights in the sidewalk around the Puck Building at night.

Fran Lebowitz supposedly lives in the Chelsea Mercantile building at 252 Seventh Avenue. She bought a $3.1 million 2270 square foot apartment.

Lobby of Chelsea Mercantile.

R192 looks like 52 and 54 East 68th Street.

The Edge observation deck in Hudson Yards.

probably 23 East 11th Street

maybe 214, 216 Columbia Heights in Brooklyn

I like ActionKid, even though he thinks St. Patrick's Cathedral is Art Deco.

New York Post says Anna Wintour lives at 172 Sullivan Street.

It's all right but too plain for my taste.

Bette Midler lives in the penthouse at 1125 Fifth Avenue.

The Divine Miss M's apartment

Bette

Bette

Ms. Midler has a lovely terrace and view.

Bette

Slice Armchair by Matthias Bengtsson at Cooper Hewitt Museum

Base of One World Trade Center. I've only seen pics from a distance of this building so I assumed it was all smooth glass. In fact, the base has angled glass fins that protrude from stainless steel panels. I don't know if the glass is purely decorative to reflect the light during the day or if they have another purpose.

Looks like 44 West 11th Street looking eastward.

351 and 353 West 22nd Street

Grant's Tomb

Chinese Dragon in the Lunar New Year Festival parade

The Aquarium, the Hippodrome, and Tobacco Road!

What is the Hippodrome?

Ethan Hawke supposedly lives at 247 Dean Street, Boerum Hill, Brooklyn.

probably Silk Exchange Building at 487 Broadway

Pierre Hotel

Tracy Mansion, 105 Eighth Avenue, Brooklyn

Al Roker's house at 155 East 82nd Street

Woolworth Building

Remsen Street in Brooklyn Heights

R383 - I know that block well from my youth. Playwrite Lynn Nottage's family has been there forever, and Jonathan Lethem used to live there too. It was the setting for Motherless Brooklyn.

^^^ Ugh, Playwright. SIP brain.

[quote]R383 - I know that block well from my youth. Playwrite Lynn Nottage's family has been there forever, and Jonathan Lethem used to live there too. It was the setting for Motherless Brooklyn.

Thanks for the interesting info. I guess Brooklyn then was a different place, ie. pre gentrification. It's amazing how many artists have lived in Brooklyn Heights and the surrounding neighborhoods. I was reading a bit about the struggles of H.P. Lovecraft and Carson McCullers. Now I guess the only artists there are very successful ones with millions, though I assume the townhouses next to the Brooklyn Heights Promenade have always been relatively expensive.

former Astor Library and Joseph Papp Public Theater at 425 Lafayette Street

Construction began in the 1850s.

Carriage house at 31 Pineapple Street, Brooklyn Heights

River House - 435 East 52nd Street

home / former home to Uma Thurman

The co-op board rejected Gloria Vanderbilt, Diane Keaton and Joan Crawford.

Vagelos Education Center, Columbia University

740 Park Avenue, one of the city's most prestigious apartment buildings

Diane Kruger bought an $11.75 million townhouse in the West Village. It was built in the Federal style, has five bedrooms and 3800 square feet. It looks like the one at the corner of Leroy Street at Bedford Street.

Minetta Street, Greenwich Village

Prospect Park West

Marlborough Road, Ditmas Park, Brooklyn

R402 looks like 1440 Albemarle Road, which Michelle Williams owns / owned. Not impressed with the taste of the previous owner.

421 Broome Street, SoHo

Heath Ledger owned the penthouse.

According to the New York Post (Feb. 2018), Taylor Swift has spent $47.7 million buying up real estate at 153 and 155 Franklin Street in Tribeca.

She bought a second-floor 3,540-square-foot apartment at 155 Franklin Street from financier Jeremy Phillips for $9.75 million. Swift already owns two top-floor units in this building. She combined them to create a penthouse duplex measuring 8,000 square feet. She paid $19.95 million for the penthouse properties, which were formerly owned by “Lord of the Rings” director Peter Jackson, in 2014.

Other former celebrity residents at 155 Franklin include Rangers captain Ryan McDonagh, Steven Soderbergh and Orlando Bloom.

Swift also owns an $18 million townhouse next door, at 153 Franklin St., which comes with its own paparazzi-proof garage.

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No, Sanjay. New York is not over. This coronavirus thing won't be around forever. People in densely populated cities like Hong Kong and Tokyo somehow manage. If more than 80% of people who go out wear masks, the spread of corona is probably greatly reduced.

36 Gramercy Park East

Okay, the suits of armor are not whimsical. They just look silly.

Central Park's Bow Bridge and the San Remo

Older building is 620 Broadway near East Houston Street.

Manhattan Bridge

OP, That's all. [italic]Go.[/italic]

The historic apartment building at 45 East 66th Street. Too bad it's home to the disgraceful Rudy Giuliani.

Historic buildings along Stone Street

21 South William Street

56 East 93rd Street

Supposedly Bradley Cooper lives at 224 West 10th Street.

Metropolitan Club

R43 Actually I saw Jon Stewart frequently when I lived in NY and it's wasn't rare to see Kathleen Turner, Sandra Bernhardt, Wally Shawn, Ethan Hawke, Uma Thurman, Tim Robbins, Carol Channing, Elliott Gould, David Brenner, Liz Smith...out and about like so many New Yorkers.

75 Murray Street

Oh wow, sounds fantastic, R422. So I guess they felt reasonably safe and most New Yorkers left them alone and didn't hassle them for autographs, etc.

Church of St. Ignatius Loyola, Park Avenue at 84th Street

[quote]OP, That's all. Go. —Miranda P

Miranda Priestley's townhouse - 129 East 73rd Street

Église Saint Jean Baptiste, 76th Street at Lexington Avenue

Église Saint Jean Baptiste

Riverside Church, Riverside Drive at 120th Street

Carvings on the stairs of Bethesda Terrace

Entrance of Paramount Building, 1501 Broadway

Art in subway station at 163rd Street at Amsterdam Avenue.

Joy Behar lives or lived at 62 West 62nd Street.

Alwyn Court

121 - 125 East 70th Street

Crosby Street Hotel

Chatwal Hotel

Empire State Building, The Langham, 420 Fifth Avenue

Lotte Palace Hotel

3 East 95th Street

Fairly good video about New York's historical architecture.

Oh my. Looks like an art film.

Come to New York, where you can see hot men being disrobed on the street.

114 Waverly Place

Library of University Club, 1 West 54th Street

The Explorers Club at 46 East 70th Street

Harvard Club at 35 West 44th Street

Like the nipples and chest of the guy on the right.

Oh great. Another DL screw up.

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^^^ Martin Scorsese's house on East 64th Street between Park and Lexington, probably No. 121.

He was living there in 2018 so maybe he still lives there now.