That was the motto of the short-lived New York edition of Newsday, and it was the phrase that once adorned the Newsday-sponsored awning of Ray's Candy Store in the East Village. It was recently reinstated on Ray's awning by the local artist Chico alongside his tribute to the deceased Bob Arihood, a beloved neighborhood blogger.
This fountain in storied Tompkins Square Park is dedicated to the memory of the 1,021 people who perished in New York City's deadliest disaster prior to 9/11: the burning of the General Slocum, an excursion steamer that was carrying residents of Manhattan's Little Germany to a church picnic when it caught fire in the East River in 1904. (The final survivor of this tragedy passed away almost 100 years later, in 2004.)
It's kind of tough to see, but the lower of those two birdhouses is just a plain black mailbox.
Henry Cogswell, a wealthy dentist and anti-alcohol advocate, built this fountain (one of many he donated around the country in the late 19th century) in Tompkins Square Park in the belief that he could encourage people to forgo alcohol by providing them with a plentiful supply of clean drinking water to enjoy instead. Good luck with that!
So reads the banner atop this dry, netted-off fish fountain outside the Church of the Immaculate Conception on 14th Street.
"Ho, every one that thirsteth, come ye to the waters; and he that hath no money, come ye, buy, and eat; yea, come, buy wine and milk without money and without price." — Isaiah 55:1
The home of Stuyvesant High School from 1907 to 1992, this beautiful building was — not surprisingly — designed by Charles B.J. Snyder.
The M15, along with three other lines, currently operates as a Select Bus Service (the MTA's version of bus rapid transit).
This willow tree grows in one of the countless community gardens found around Alphabet City.
I passed by back in July, but the windows weren't fully lit then.
Now a synagogue, this was once the church whose members died in the General Slocum disaster.
