Come for the Animal Husbandry, stay for the Yeast Connection.
It reads: "All Cars Transfer to Bloomingdale's", a slogan born 110 years ago.
On the base of a sundial near the Citicorp Building. Maria Hernandez was an anti-drug community activist shot to death in 1989. Brian Watkins was a tourist from Utah stabbed to death in 1990 trying to defend his mother in a subway mugging. I can't find anything about Vincent C. McNeill (surveyor) or Joseph E. McGrath (educator); perhaps they were also killed around 1990, when the Citicorp Building opened.
These signs predate the NYPD's most recent Model Block program (found to be unconstitutional in 2002), but they probably denote something similar.
They probably convey important information to other aliens unfamiliar with the area, like where the bathroom is.
Helps protect the bark from rapid temperature change on sunny winter days
Ground was broken for this library 100 years ago, but it wasn't completed until 1940. (1940 - (2012 - 100)) = 28!
I love that the library website has an entire page devoted to the inscriptions on this building!
And the Franklin Avenue Shuttle is arriving.
Usually overlooked by the police. Usually.
Junior here is the fourth member of his family to serve in either the State Assembly or the City Council, but he's run into some problems recently.
(or maybe next door — I can't tell for sure) stood America's first birth control clinic, operated by Margaret Sanger and two other women for nine days in 1916 before being shut down for violating the Comstock laws.
