Worked into this gate at the dead end of Pearl Street are the house's address ("Pearl St No 41") and "Much heat & Love 1980". Here's what the other door looks like.
This house (which is named Portview, according to another tablet opposite the one above) is located at the intersection of Sunrise Terrace and Occident Avenue, and its current address is 6 Sunrise Terrace, implying that it once stood like Istanbul or Damascus at the crossroads of Orient and Occident.
(This 1907 map [look at the bottom left] confirms that this block of Sunrise Terrace used to be called Orient Avenue.)
2014: a bad year for figs, but a good one, at least in my world, for sorghum.
This house was built in 1880-82 for Mr. Schoverling ("one of the world's foremost importers and distributors of firearms") and his almost identically named wife.
Check out this little ball of pep on a dreary January day.
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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