Thursday, August 10, 2023 – HEADING SOUTH FROM 34TH STREET TO CANAL STREET

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FROM THE ARCHIVES

THURSDAY,  AUGUST 10,  2023

ISSUE#  1057

DISCOVERING

THE 

NEIGHBORHOODS

OF THE

Q TRAIN, PART 2

JUDITH BERDY

TIME TO BITE THE BULLET AND SEE WHAT WONDERS WE WILL FIND WHEN WE START RIDING THE “Q” TRAIN ON AUGUST 28TH.

LET’S FACE FACTS THAT THERE COULD BE A WORSE SITUATION, WITH NO SERVICE AS ORIGINALLY PROPOSED.    FOLKS WHO HAVE TO GO TO QUEENS, THIS WILL BE A GIANT CHALLENGE.

WHEN WE ARRIVE AT 63RD STREET AND LEXINGTON AVENUE, WE CAN HEAD SOUTH PAST TIMES SQUARE TO 34th STREET AND THEN ON TO 14th STREET AND THEN CANAL STREET.

Scope and content: A horse-drawn ambulance arrives on the scene where a man lies in the street after being hit by a cable car. From Leslie’s Weekly, Aug. 29,1895. Background left, Union Dime Savings Bank. Background right, 6th Avenue El. Wikimedia Commons

These days you may not be hit by a trolley but by a biker, moped. scooter or out of control car in the Herald Square neighborhood.

Herald square, not as well known as its neighbor a few streets further north., Manhattan. Wikimedia Commons

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UNION SQUARE 14 STREET

CHILDE HASSAN  Wikimedia Commons

The site of union movements, riots, demonstrations and all kinds chaos ages ago and weeks ago.

CANAL STREET

EXIT IN CHINATOWN FOR SOME FOOD AND THEN HEAD OVER THE MANHATTAN BRIDGE ON THE “Q TRAIN TO BROOKLYN

STAY ON THE Q TRAIN TO CROSS THE MANHATTAN BRIDGE OR WALK OVER IT FOR A MULTI BOROUGH EXPERIENCE.

TOMORROW WE CONTINUE OUR VOYAGE SOUTH ON THE “Q” TRAIN TO MORE STATIONS AND NEIGHBORHOODS IN BROOKLYN

OUR JULIA GASH TAPESTRY THROWS WILL BE AVAILABLE VERY SOON.  RESERVE YOURS TODAY FOR DELIVERY SOON.
THINK OF CUDDLING UP THIS WINTER UNDER A UNIQUE JULIA GASH (C) THROW!

STOP BY THE RIHS VISITOR CENTER KIOSK OR E-MAIL US AT ROOSEVELTISLANDHISTORY@GMAIL.COM.

SEE THROW IN RIVERCROSS DISPLAY WINDOW.

COME SHOP OUR JULIA GASH COLLECTION OF GREAT NEW ITEMS:

TAPESTRY THROW $70 UNTIL OCTOBER 1, $80 AFTER OCTOBER 1
MUGS         $15-
TOTE           $28-
LANYARD    $8-
ORNAMENT $20-
COLOR BOOK  $8-
POSTCARD     $2-
LARGE POSTER $35 (NOT SHOWN)

THURSDAY PHOTO OF THE DAY

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WEDNESDAY PHOTO OF THE DAY

THIRD CHURCH OF CHRIST, SCIENTIST, 64th & PARK AVE.
UNDER FULL IMAGE OF STRUCTURE WHILE BUILDING IS UNDER RESTORATION.
GLORIA HERMAN GOT IT RIGHT

Text by Judith Berdy
Thanks to Bobbie Slonevsky for her dedication to Blackwell’s Almanac and the RIHS
Thanks to Deborah Dorff for maintaining our website
Edited by Melanie Colter and Deborah Dorff

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