Ephemeral New York
What happened to the flashy amusement park nicknamed the Coney Island of Canarsie?
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Aug 4, 2025
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The mysterious blocked-off entryways built into a Central Park transverse road
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Aug 4, 2025
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The faceless men haunting the Third Avenue El in the twilight of the 1930s city
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Jul 28, 2025
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The circular beauty of a "ferris wheel" sewer cover in the South Bronx
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Jul 21, 2025
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A movie mogul builds an opulent theater on Avenue B where his childhood tenement once stood
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Jul 21, 2025
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The strict rules of decorum at Rockaway Beach, established by a police captain in 1904
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Jul 21, 2025
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An elegy for an 1850s mansion with no place in the rapidly urbanizing Upper West Side
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Jul 17, 2025
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Was there ever a deli below this neon ghost delicatessen sign on West Fourth Street?
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Jul 7, 2025
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Delivering barrels of ice cream by horse and wagon in Central Park
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Jul 7, 2025
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Step into this West 12th Street courtyard oasis behind a row of 1840s residences
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Jun 30, 2025
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This image from the 1870s of a sparse, country-like Riverside Drive is older than the Drive itself
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Jun 24, 2025
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This Gilded Age holdout house still stands because the widow who owned it said no to developers
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Jun 9, 2025
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Discovering two of the hidden backhouses secluded inside an East Village tenement block
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Jun 3, 2025
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An ironworks foundry leaves its unusual mark on a Grand Street manhole cover
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May 26, 2025
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The three New York City memorials built to honor the prison ship martyrs of the Revolutionary War
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May 26, 2025