During the summer of 1939, many New Yorkers were heading to the World’s Fair while most were trying to stay cool in a time without air conditioning. Here are some suggestions from the “good old days.”
New York World’s Fair (1939-1940) Subject: Special Events Subject: Special Events Description: King George & Queen Elizabeth arrive in New York at Pier A. High view. Date:June 1939
Date: October 1, 1939 Format: Black and White Format: Acetate negative
Format: good Format: 5 x 7 inches Source: NYC Department of Parks & Recreation
Macombs Dam Park: Photo contest 1939, runners, copy negative Subject: Macombs Dam Park Date: October 1, 1939 Format: Black and White Format: Acetate negative Format: good Format: 5 x 7 inches Source: NYC Department of Parks & Recreation
Photo contest 1939, bathers on steps, copy negative, 4×5 image area Date: October 1, 1939 Format: Black and White Format: Acetate negative Format: good Format: 5 x 7 inches Source: NYC Department of Parks & Recreation
Photo contest 1939, Women relaxing in front of historic house, copy negative Subject: Central Park Date: October 1, 1939 Format: Black and White Format: Acetate negative Format: good Format: 5 x 7 inches Source: NYC Department of Parks & Recreation
Photo contest 1939, girl on swing, copy negative Date: October 1, 1939 Format: Black and White Format: Acetate negative Format: good Format: 5 x 7 inches Source: NYC Department of Parks & Recreation Notes:
Central Park: Boys and men playing checkers, copy negative Subject: Central Park Date: October 1, 1939 Format: Black and White Format: Acetate negative Format: good Format: 5 x 7 inches Source: NYC Department of Parks & Recreation
THURSDAY PHOTO OF THE DAY
OLD MAIN STREET SIGNS ALEXIS VILLAFANE AND GLORIA HERMAN GOT IT RIGHT
WEEKEND PHOTO
IN MEMORY OF RUTH BERDY WHO PASSED AWAY
ON JUNE 23, 2012. FOREVER IN OUR HEARTS
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MAYA LEVANON-PHOTOS TIK TOK & INSTAGRAM\ JUDITH BERDY NEW YORK MUNICIPAL ARCHIVES DEPARTMENT OF RECORDS
THIS WEEK I HAVE BEEN WORKING AS A POLL WORKER AT THE HUNTER SCHOOL OF NURSING BUILDING AT 425 EAST 25 STREET.
THE BUILDING, A RELIC OF THE 1950’S MID-CENTURY ARCHITECTURE. THOUGH MAYBE OUT DATED IN SOME WAYS IT IS AN AMAZING EXAMPLE OF THE ARCHITECTURAL STYLE.
FOR YEARS TALK HAS BEEN CIRCULATING ABOUT THE BUILDINGS PROPOSED DEMOLITION AND REPLACEMENT BY A MULTI-FACETED MEDICAL EDUCATION CENTER.
THE AUDITORIUM WITH IS CIRCULAR CELING IS A WONDER TO THIS DAY.
THE POOL STILL EXISTS, THOUGH ITS USE IS NOT KNOWN.
A GYM, POOL TENNIS COURTS, SHUFFLE BOARD ARE AMONGST THE ACTIVITIES OFFERED
THURSDAY PHOTO OF THE DAY
THURSDAY PHOTO OF THE DAY
The “Old Tree” is a pink and red 25-foot-tall sculpture comprised of manmade materials. It’s meant to resemble the branching systems of the human organs, blood vessels and tissue in order to draw a connection between our own lives and the nature around us. Swiss artist Pamela Rosenkranz created the sculpture.
MORE ON JJJ BRICKS SOON, AS PROMISED. I AM WORKING EARLY VOTING OFF THE ISLAND AND WILL BACK TO NORMAL NEXT WEEK.
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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MAYA LEVANON-PHOTOS TIK TOK & INSTAGRAM\ JUDITH BERDY NEW YORK MUNICIPAL ARCHIVES DEPARTMENT OF RECORDS
Today, officials from Empire State Development, Brookfield Properties, and Friends of the High Line cut the ribbon on the Moynihan Connector! This striking new connection to the High Line will offer pedestrians a safe and elevated pathway from West Midtown to the West Village when it opens to the public on Thursday, June 22nd. City commuters will appreciate the new connector’s access to public transit hubs like Penn Station and the Moynihan Train Hall, and marvel at its engineering.
Photo by Andrew Frasz,Courtesy of Friends of the High Line) Built in just 18 months for $50 million, the 600-foot-long, L-shaped Moynihan Connector includes two distinct sections. Above West 30th Street from The High Line’s terminus at the Spur is a richly planted Woodland Bridge. The second section is a block-long Timber Bridge, built from sustainably sourced Alaskan Yellow Cedar beams. It runs north above Dyer Avenue toward the adjacent Magnolia Court pedestrian plaza at Manhattan West.
Photo by Andrew Frasz, Courtesy of Friends of the High Line)
The wooden bars you may have seen being lifted up to the High Line in May now make up a sleek addition to the already dynamic architecture that defines The High Line. Designed by James Corner Field Operations, who was a part of the High Line’s original design team, and Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, both bridges feature Corten steel decking and bronze handrails. The Woodland Bridge features 5-foot deep soil containers filled with trees and other greenery.
Photo by Andrew Frasz, Courtesy of Friends of the High Line)
The project was initially proposed in January 2021, and the first designs were unveiled by Governor Kathy Hochul in September of that year. The Moynihan Connector represents a city-wide vision of connecting the neighborhoods, institutions, businesses, parks, and transportation hubs that define Manhattan’s West Side. “The High Line’s connection to Moynihan Train Hall and other nearby attractions complements our investments in Midtown West, encourages better pedestrian access, and provides New Yorkers with a truly one-of-a-kind experience,” said Governor Hochul.
THIS SEEMS TO BE AN IMITATION OF THE FAMOUS (DURING MY CHILDHOOD) OF GOOD HUMOR ICE CREAM TRUCK THE ONE THE LEFT IS THE REAL ONE
MORE ON JJJ BRICKS SOON, AS PROMISED. I AM WORKING EARLY VOTING OFF THE ISLAND AND WILL BACK TO NORMAL NEXT WEEK.
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MAYA LEVANON-PHOTOS TIK TOK & INSTAGRAM\ JUDITH BERDY UNTAPPED NEW YORK
The Gould Memorial Library is considered one of Standford White‘s masterpieces. Located on the historic Bronx Community College Campus, the library is encircled by another White-designed structure, the Hall of Fame of Great Americans. In addition to White, another famous name is associated with these buildings: Guastavino. The father-son engineering duo known for their innovative tile arch system is responsible for the grand dome that tops the library rotunda and the arched ceiling that curves along the Hall of Great Americans. This week, Untapped New York Insiders got to explore this site with White’s great-grandson, Samuel White. While walking through the lower level of the library, we uncovered another hidden example of Guastavino tile!.
The Guastavino Company was founded by Spanish immigrant and engineer Rafael Guastavino, Sr. (1842-1908) and was eventually run by his son, Rafael Jr. The Guastavinos were famous for their innovative “Tile Arch System” devised to create impressive vaulted arches. These arches were extra secure and stable thanks to layers of terra cotta tiles arranged in a zig-zag, usually herringbone, pattern and secured with special cement. The pattern of the tiles allowed for Guastavino domes to be self-supporting. This method was also fireproof, an important perk.
Image Courtesy of Bronx Community CollegeAt the Gould Memorial Library, the main Guastavino attraction is the domed ceiling of the rotunda which served as a reading room. On the Untapped New York Insiders tour, Samuel White explained that what you see is a decorative plaster dome that sits in front of the structural dome underneath. The design, White explained, was inspired by the ceiling of a chapel at the Château d’Anet in France. Behind the rosette-covered plaster ceiling, you would find the signature Guastavino tile pattern.
That’s what Insiders saw when they ventured down below the rotunda. Beneath the rotunda reading room is the library’s auditorium. This space is still used for lectures and events and was getting ready to host a graduation ceremony after our Insiders tour. In a service hallway that leads off of the auditorium, Insiders were treated to a view of exposed Guastavino tile work on the ceiling. Just like in the rotunda above, glass skylights here have been sealed and replaced by electric lights.
After a pass through the hallway, which isn’t usually on the normal tour route, Insiders headed to the Hall of Fame of Great Americans to see more of White and Guastvino’s architecture. This was the first hall of fame to be created. It features 98 busts of figures like Clara Burton, Abraham Lincoln, and the Wright Brothers. Looking up, visitors will see Guastavino’s herringbone tiling along the whole length of the 630-foot open-air monument’s curved ceiling.
The Hall of Fame of Great Americans
Even if you’ve never been to the Gould Memorial Library, you’ve likely walked under a Guastavino ceiling. Examples of Guastavino’s work can be found in over 200 historical buildings in New York City. Here at Untapped New York, it’s a thrill every time we find a new one, especially when they are hidden. His recognizable tile pattern can be seen in multiple places throughout at Grand Central Terminal, at the Municipal Building in Lower Manhattan, and at the Boathouse in Prospect Park among other notable places.
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INTERIOR OF SMALLPOX HOSPITAL THOM HEYER, ARON EISENPREISS, GLORIA HERMAN, JINNY EWALD, VICKI FEINMEL FROM JAY JACOBSON:
Might this be an interior view looking skyward from the “preserved ruin” smallpox Hospital en route to the FDR Memorial? I remember looking around the smallpox ruin in the 1970s when our family first moved to RI. In clambering over the ruin, I discovered a goodly number of bricks bearing the initials JJJ. My paternal grandfather, after whom I am named, was in the business of internal construction, and, among other things, remodeled churches in Brooklyn neighborhoods into Synagogues for the immigrant Jewish communities that were moving out of the lower East Side tenements in which they were first housed. Working with no information at all, I decided to suggest to children, siblings, and cousins that the JJJ bricks were “probably” manufactured for my deceased grandfather who would have had bricks he ordered from Hudson Valley brick makers identified so that other builders, offering higher prices to the brick makers, would not be able to claim that the bricks were their bricks.
Only a conversation with JB of RIHS disabused me of the rumor I had circulated with shameless disregard of the truth.
TOMORROW: MORE ABOUT JJJ BRICKS
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MAYA LEVANON-PHOTOS TIK TOK & INSTAGRAM\ JUDITH BERDY UNTAPPED NEW YORK
So what to make of lonely Depew Place, a spit of roadway starting at the dark and dingy back of Grand Central on East 45th Street, and then running alongside Park Avenue next to the terminal before unceremoniously ending in a loading dock a block later?
I’ve often wondered about this slender, little-known street. It seems to have been de-mapped, but the street sign looks new. Was this ever an actual city street before the current Grand Central Terminal opened in 1913—and if so, where did it lead to, and why was it almost entirely eliminated?
Depew Place did begin life as a New York City street, laid out in 1884 on the east side of the old Grand Central Depot (below), according to oldstreets.com. Grand Central Depot opened in 1871 and was demolished in 1899.
According to the above photo, from the New-York Historical Society, Depew Street extended all the way to 42nd Street and was a regular commercial strip. (The photo is undated, but it looks to be in the late 19th century.)
But when plans for the current Beaux-Arts Grand Central Terminal were made in 1905, officials decided that Depew Place would have to close, at least while construction was commencing.
After the new Grand Central Terminal was completed and began serving passengers eight years later, Depew Place’s fate was revealed. (Below, still existing alongside the new Grand Central)
“Under a 1925 perpetual easement to the city, its upper level is now occupied in part by the northbound ramp carrying Park Avenue around the terminal,” states oldstreets.com. “A part also remains as an alley to the post office loading docks on the south side of 45th Street.”
So Depew Place remains, mostly unknown and forgotten, a century later. Oh, and who was Depew?
Chauncey Depew was a U.S. Senator from New York as well as the president of Cornelius Vanderbilt’s New York Central Railroad. Vanderbilt built the original Grand Central Depot, and Depew was apparently an important enough figure to have his name grace an adjacent street.
[Second photo: New-York Historical Society; third and fourth photos: NYPL]
MONDAY PHOTO OF THE DAY
TERRA COTTA ORNAMENT IN COLUMBUS CIRCLE SUBWAY STATION ARON EISENPREISS, ANDY SPARBERG, JOYCE GOLD,& HARA REISER ALL GOT IT RIGHT
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MAYA LEVANON-PHOTOS TIK TOK & INSTAGRAM\ JUDITH BERDY EPHEMERAL NEW YORK
Saturday was our annual Roosevelt Island Day. On the Rivercross lawn was a selection of bouncy houses, games, refreshments and lots of popcorn and cotton candy.
Under the trees in Blackwell Park, various groups set up shop. CBN Older Adult Center collected clothes, RIDA gave out information and candy, Cornell Tech students were demonstrating robotics, OPEN Doors from Coler were there along with the Four Freedoms Democratic Club.
The Roosevelt Island Historical Society was with the Coler Auxiliary. It was a great partnering as the Coler Auxiliary distributed backpacks containing caps, tee shirts and sanitizer. At the adjoining table the kids were selecting free books and also a table for coloring pages.
All the volunteers were great and especially two students Emma and Eoin.
Special thanks to the RIOC staff who did a great job to make the day a success. Thanks to the grounds crew who were busy re-arranging tables so all groups had visibility!!!
The activities of the Coler Auxiliary are to support the residents and provide services that the hospital cannot give. Some of these are classes, trips, special meals, holiday entertainments, providing materials for the therapeutic recreation services and social service departments. The Auxiliary is a 501 (c)3 not for profit organization and is seeking new members. Contact JOVEMAY.SANTOS@NYCHHC.ORG or JBIRD134@AOL.COM.
The RIHS has been active on the island for over 45 years including operating the visitor center, educational programs, tours, assistance to researchers, producers, publishing “Blackwell’s Almanac” and “From the Archive” while working with RIOC to make sure our island landmarks are preserved and are relevant in our community. For information contact ROOSEVELTISLANDHISTORY#GMAIL.COM.
Our first visitors were thrilled with a backpack and a book. These backpacks were donated by NYC H+H, the Health and Hospitals. H+H is the City hospital system that operate public hospitals including Bellevue, Metropolitan, KIngs County, Elmhurst and 8 other acute care hospitals along with 4 nursing homes, of which Coler is one.
Backpacks are very popular and all were distributed to eager recipients.
Under the trees in the park, a great setting.
A quick chat to introduce the organizations to the islanders.
Children in front of the Staff House, probably were family members of staff who lived on the island
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Today, while was at the Pride flag raising outside Blackwell House I recalled a visit we had about 5 years ago in July of 2018 from Travis Russ. He was enquiring about gay prisoners at the Penitentiary on the island many years ago.
Travis and a group of researchers combed thru our files and took the little information we had.
This spring Travis Russ contacted me and told of a staged reading of Thr Gorgeous Nothings was being read at the Library at Lincoln Center.
It is a story of 5 gay prisoners and their stories of before and after incarceration. Each one is emotional and tells of their lives and struggles. Research was done at the courthouses and archives to portray these stories.
A clip below gives a small sample of the production. Hopefully, i will soon be produced
Queensboro Plaza IRT-BMT elevated station as originally designed, with tracks that led to the Queensboro Bridge. Those tracks were removed in 1942. The station originally had eight tracks; the north half of the structure was abandoned in 1949 and then removed in the early 1960s. Today it has four tracks on two levels, serving the #7 and N/W routes.
FROM ANDY SPARBERG
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BRING THE KIDS TO COLOR PAGES FROM OUR COLORING BOOK
WE ARE NOW ON TIK TOK AND INSTAGRAM!
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FROM THE ARCHIVES
FRIDAY, JUNE 16, 2023
ISSUE# 1016
THE GENERAL SLOCUM SHIPWRECK OFF
NORTH BROTHER ISLAND
JUNE 15, 1904
UNTAPPED NEW YORK
Until the events of September 11th, the sinking of the General Slocum disaster was responsible for the largest loss of life in New York City. The tragedy forever changed the composition of the Lower East Side, yet the incident has largely receded from city memory.
Photo via National ArchivesOn June 15, 1904, St. Mark’s Evangelical Church chartered a boat, the General Slocum, to take 1358 members of its German-American congregation for a fun-filled day on the water and on a Long Island beach. For the kids, this was a day to look forward, a chance to breathe the fresh air and play outside away from the dirty tenement scene.The General Slocum was not a well-kept ship, to say the least. The crew was inexperienced, especially at handling emergencies. Not far from shore, a fire burst out, and quickly consumed the ship. The combination of faulty lifeboats and life jackets, a panicked crowd of non-swimmers, and a cowardly crew that sought their own escape first led to mayhem and death. The crisis was made worse by the captain’s refusal to bring the burning ship to shore, ostensibly to prevent the fire from spreading, and the unfortunate timing of the fire occurring while the boat was in Hell Gate’s notoriously rough waters.
The General Slocum sank just off North Brother Island with victims and debris washing up on shore. The staff of the hospitals on the island served as rescue staff for the event.1,021 people died either by fire or drowning that day. Only a few hundred survived. The disaster also devastated the large German-American population on the Lower East Side. (Back then, the “East Village” was considered part of the Lower East Side). Hundreds of families lost relatives that day and some entire families were wiped out. The grief led to suicides and depression, and eventually the wholesale movement of the community out of the area. Many resettled on the Upper East Side, which retained a German-American flavor for many years.The tragedy also created an unfortunate legacy for Henry Warner Slocum, who served with distinction alongside William Sherman as a major general for the Union during the Civil War. After the war, he served as the rep from New York’s 42nd Congressional District (we now only have 27 districts) and lived in Brooklyn, where he is buried.
On a more uplifting note, the idea of taking large groups of kids out of the projects to a more bucolic setting for the day is an excellent one. Sponsoring such large outings was once the hallmark of Tammany Hall, which would bring kids up the Hudson and serve them picnics in the park.Today, a marker in Tompkins Square Park and a plaque next to the Merchants House Museum serve as reminders of this event.
Weeks 533 is a 500-short-ton (454 t) capacity Clyde Iron Works model 52 barge-mounted crane which is the largest revolving floating crane on the East Coast of the United States.[1] It was originally ordered for bridge construction and has since been used in several notable heavy lifts.
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PENNIES FOR PRESERVATION RETURNS BRING YOUR COINS TO OUR TABLE ON ROOSEVELT ISLAND DAY
BRING THE KIDS TO COLOR PAGES FROM OUR COLORING BOOKWE ARE NOW ON TIK TOK AND INSTAGRAM!
WE ARE NOW ON TIK TOK AND INSTAGRAM!
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FROM THE ARCHIVES
THURSDAY, JUNE 15, 2023
ISSUE# 1015
INTERESTING SCENES
AROUND THE ISLAND
A COMPOSTING BIN APPEARED ON THE SIDEWALK OUTSIDE THE OCTAGON. SEEMS TO BE A WEIRD PLACE TO PLACE THIS BIN…ANY EXPLANATIONS?
BEE BEE HOLES IN STRECKER WINDOW THAT HAS BEEN THERE A WHILE. PLEASE REPAIR NEW YORK TRANSIT!
THE 2020 PLAN FOR THE GENERATOR PLATFORM
THE PLATFORM IS TAKING SHAPE JUST SOUTH OF STRECKER LABORATORY. FROM THE IMAGE ON THE RENDERING TO REALITY IT SEEMS THAT THE STRUCTURE IS HIGHER AND HAS ALL KINDS OF EQUIPMENT ON THE ROOF LEVEL. WE DO NOT KNOW WHAT OVERSITE RIO C IS GIVING THIS PROJECT THAT IS TRULY AN INTRUSION OF SOUTHPOINT PARK. IT WAS SUPPOSED TO BE UNOBSTRUSIVE.,…YOUR COMMENTS. TO SEE RIOC APPROVAL: https://rioc.ny.gov/DocumentCenter/View/3272/NB-8-NYCT-Generator-Platform-Design-Approval?bidId=
THE 1976 EDITION OF NEW YORK MAGAZINE THAT EXTOLLED THE VIRTUES OF THE ISLAND. NINA LUBLN GOT IT RIGHT
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“A Spring Morning” is Impressionist loveliness by Childe Hassam—the New York City-based painter who created enchanting street scenes out of loose brushstrokes and plays on darkness and light.
Hassam’s work is also a time machine back to an earlier New York. This one takes us to 1890, just after Hassam settled in Gotham and began painting out of a studio on Fifth Avenue and 17th Street.
He didn’t go far to capture this scene. On West 20th Street looking toward Sixth Avenue, two women of wealth are about to alight a carriage; two more trail behind on the brownstone steps. A well-dressed male pedestrian walks behind another pedestrian, a woman, who shields herself and her children from the warm spring sun with an umbrella.
This stretch of Chelsea has long since lost its cachet as an elite brownstone row; it was already going out of fashion when Hassam painted it, thanks to the increasing presence of commerce in the neighborhood and the elevated train traveling up and down Sixth Avenue, which Hassam obscures.
But unlike the rest of this former residential block, two of the buildings in the painting remain with us.
First, the gold-domed tower in the center of the painting: It was part of the block-long Hugh O’Neill Dry Goods Emporium, one of the legendary retail establishments on the Sixth Avenue part of the Ladies Mile shopping district. Today, it’s the O’Neill Building, a luxury condo residence.
Across Sixth Avenue from the domed tower is another tall structure, part of a Gothic-style church (above, in 1876; below, in 1907) that looks like it belongs in the country. This was the Church of the Holy Communion, completed in 1845 by Richard Upjohn. In its day, this Episcopalian church was one of the most elite in New York City.
Those of us born in the 20th century, however, might know it better as the Limelight—the infamous dance club that opened in the 1980s and finished its run as a nightclub haunt in the early 2000s. Today, I believe it’s been divided into retail spaces.
Childe Hassam couldn’t have imagined how the church, whose parish disbanded in the 1970s, would be repurposed a century after he painted this serene scene of privileged Gilded Age New Yorkers.
ROOSEVELT ISLAND GENERATOR PLATFORM UNDER CONSTRUCTION ADJOINING STRECKER LABORATORY, SOUTPOINT PARK
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