One last little Sheepshead Bay passageway
Day 831
Lincoln Terrace
April 9th, 2014
I'm walking every street in New York City.
This is the counterpoint to my walk across the US. Instead of seeing a million places for just a minute each, I'm going to spend a million minutes exploring just one place. By the time I finish walking every block of every street in all five boroughs, I'll have traveled more than 8,000 miles on foot — all within a single city. Details!
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~9,954 miles walked
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I always wanted to stroll this place. This was the home of one of my heroes, Winsor McCay, the greatest cartoonist who ever lived. His work is full of buildings, houses and architecture. He drew what he saw and what he couldn’t see he dreamed up. They say he could look at something once and draw it perfectly from memory later.
http://www.sheepsheadbites.com/tag/winsor-mccay-house/ Here’s an interesting thing I just found…
… and here’s an archive of his work which you may enjoy https://archive.org/details/LittleNemo1905-1914ByWinsorMccay
And interesting thing in the house articles – the before, vintage photo, and then the current restoration with a crummy brick front – always makes me wonder why so many builders and developers don’t have a clue about aesthetics and history.
Just my rant – I’ll shut up now.