at the Department of Environmental Protection's new Remsen Avenue maintenance facility
It reads "CITY OF NEW YORK" (took me a while to figure that out), and it's mounted on a wall of the Department of Environmental Protection's new Remsen Avenue maintenance facility. Perhaps the bricks are remnants of the previous DEP facility at this site?
According to Forgotten New York, this structure was completed in 1939, originally served as an ice cream parlor, and is "NYC's one and only building constructed from crosstimbers." It was also thrice firebombed in 1991 after Fillmore Real Estate, under a court order, began showing homes to black and Hispanic customers.
UPDATE: Turns out there's at least one other log cabin in the city: 17 Vulcan Street in Staten Island.
Not interested in talking, but happy to pose for a photo. In case you're wondering, this is where I ran into him.
Is To Create It
(Or something like that)
A sign mounted on the building reads:
TO GOD BE THE GLORY
Be it known that
Pastor Dr. R. C. Connor, D.Min., Ph.D.
A Defender of the Faith, A Protector of the Flock
A Champion for the Cause of Christ in an Endeavor
To Restore Glory and Honor to the Church of
Jesus Church: Rescued Restored and Revitalized
this dilapidated Warehouse into God's House
This vestige installed herein this 10th month of 2007
In this the 44th Year of His Ministry
The 7th Year of His Episcopacy
Looks like this one's going to become permanent.
I've started paying more attention to the tops of fire hydrant bollards, and I've now seen quite a few that read "THAILAND".
In NYC, almost all of the elevated subway lines are built on top of streets; it's rare to see one running along its own right-of-way. I was just trying to get a photo of the Myrtle Avenue Line, a remnant of the old Myrtle Avenue El, when this little guy walked straight into my shot. I didn't even see him until he appeared on the screen of my camera.
This building is Henry Stern's "mecca", and its tortoise-and-hare frieze serves as the logo for Stern's American Association for the Advancement and Appreciation of Animals in Art & Architecture — "AAAAAAA for short, or long."
This statue of the Greek muse has stood outside the Liederkranz Club — first on 58th Street, and now on 87th Street — since 1897.
In 1963, Andy Warhol rented the second floor of this former firehouse from the city for use as a studio.
at Carl Schurz Park (we saw a statue of Mr. Schurz in Morningside Park back in June), which is the site of Gracie Mansion, the official residence of the mayor. Bill de Blasio will be the first mayor in quite some time to actually live in Gracie Mansion, however: Mike Bloomberg hasn't spent a single night there during his 12 years in office, and Rudy Giuliani moved out late in his second term after his marriage fell apart.
This sculpture, originally created in 1928 as part of a fountain for the old Paramount Theatre in Times Square, has stood here in Carl Schurz Park since 1975, although it had to be restored and reinstalled after it was abducted and thrown into the East River in 1998 by a suspected "band of overly high-spirited youths, perhaps latter-day Lost Boys who turned on their own icon."
"The tiny Queen Anne-style red-brick enclave of Henderson Place, at the eastern end of 86th Street, has long seemed out of place in a high-rise city - its dollhouse architecture is dwarfed by its surroundings."
I've been paying attention to standpipe and sprinkler connections for quite some time now, but it wasn't until today that I started seeing (or noticing) little faucets on some of them. I'm not sure, but I think they allow the connecting pipes inside the building to be drained after being used or tested.
