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This is NYC's main post office, on 8th Ave between 31st and 33rd, across the street from Madison Square Garden, and named after James Farley, 53rd Postmaster General of the U.S. of A.



Built in 1912, designed by William Mitchell Kendall of McKim, Mead and White.

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I'm looking for info on a clock, somewhere downtown I think? It's numbers are all wrong. Any clues? Ideas? Sorry I dont have more info....

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This was the home of Morton F. Plant, a famous and obscenely rich New York banker / art conneisseur. Although it's hard to tell who he was exactly, since apparently there were two Morton F. Plants living at the time, both of whom were fabulously wealthy, both of whom built enormous houses for themselves in 1905. The other Morton F. Plant, so far as I can tell, was a commodore but was not a banker, and also happened to be the inheritor of a railroad-line fortune. His old house is in Connecticut.

This house was built in 1905 by Robert W. Gibson (who did St. Michael's Church on the Upper West Side) and C. P. H. Gilbert (who did the Warburg mansion / Jewish Museum on the Upper East Side), and then slightly altered in 1917 by William Welles Bosworth (American Telephone & Telegraph Building on Broadway; Lorelai fountain in the Bronx) when it was made into a Cartier jewelry store, which it remains to this day.

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St. Ann's Episcopal, corner of Livingston and Clinton.

St. Ann's is the oldest Episcopal congregation Brooklyn, for those of you who take interest in such things, about a century older than the church itself. The congregation's previous home, at Washington and Sands streets (where the ubiquitous Walt Whitman went to Sunday school), was knocked down to clear the way for the Brooklyn Bridge. After that, in 1867, this structure was built by James Renwick Jr., the guy responsible for (among other things) Grace Church in Manhattan (Renwick's first commission, designed when he was only 23) on B'way & 10th, and, the big enchilada, St. Patrick's Cathedral (which was designed before St. Ann's but built after) on 50th Street and 5th Ave. It has kind of a shimmering quality up close, sort of like the face of the Brooklyn Public Library, owing, according to Google and my trusty guidebooks, to the complimentary combinations of dark New Jersey brownstone with light yellow Ohio limestone.

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So last Friday I took a waltz around Brooklyn Heights. I'm just posting the pictures now because today's the first day Photobucket hasn't been a pain in the ass. I ran out of light and space on my memory card before I could take a picture of everything I wanted, but I'll go back next day there's nice weather. Things are kind of slow around the office.



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(x-posted a few other places, including my livejournal, a little while back.)



This was the home of 19th century paper tycoon Henry Carlton Hulbert, at the corner of Prospect Park West and 1st st, built by Montrose Morris in 1889. Aside from being totally gigantic, when it was put up there wasn't a hell of a lot of settlement around there. Its closest neighbor, the William H. Childs house (below), wasn't built until twelve years later. It was this weird mansion in the middle of nowhere. The only occupants were Hulbert himself, his daughter and his daughter's husband. After they vacated (1922?), it was turned into the Brooklyn Ethical Culture School by the Ethical Culture Society, which is still around. It sounds kinda lefty but supports a lot of things I support (repeal of death penalty & Rockefeller drug laws, education reform, &c.), but which weirdly and very explicity bills itself as its own 'religion'. Later the house became the Woodward Park School, and now (since 1995) it's the Poly Prep Lower School, basically a giant gothic kindergarten.

You can really see the weirdly gigantic chimneys in this pic.

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I saw this on Reading Rainbow yesterday.

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Hello all,

For so long have been yearning to live in New York. It is the most beautiful place on earth to me. I just love it so much. I love the buildings and the bridges. I love the people. I'm finally going to live there, downtown Manhattan. I'm going to be attending Pace Uinversity. I will be taking a class on the history of NYC. I got a copy of Knickerbocker's History of New York by Washington Irving last summer. That's a really whimsical and fun story about the Dutch and such. My favorite place in Mahattan is the upper east side. I have a friend on York Ave that my sister met on teh 6 train. We got to experience snow for the first time there this past March. See, I grew up in Florida. Though many people like it there I never have. I'm writing a book right now where the main character is born and rasied in one city but feels her heart homes in another across the channel. That is how I feel. My spirit was born in NYC. Though most people find themselves among trees and nature I found my self in the city.

Sometimes I believe the natives take it all for granted. I hope that I never do. I have not been as successful as my twin sister about meeting others on livejournal. But if anyone wants to look for the ghost of Peter Stuyvesant in St. Mark's Church in the Bowery I'll be there to stay September 3rd. :)

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does anyone know of anywhere i could find an tourist/idiot's guide to the NYC subway?
like online or maybe a book or maybe just advice or something??
the mta website seems really confusing and i think itd be easier to be directed by a person who knows it really well?

also, does anyone know of any cheap hotels in new york city that allow 20 year olds to make reservations? for some reason i have this pre-conceived notion you have to be 21+...but maybe not?

thanks so much!
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why are so many ppl from florida? i thought this was a nyc club. i thought i could meet sum nyc ppl to go frolick through the manhattan grid and wander off on some island. i really want a boat to go sailing in the hell gate woomp. twin those pics u sent me are delicious, i don't know which to hang first. i really should get mine developed. oh btw nyc_tabbers, i went exploring yesterday er well Tuesday. I went to Ward's Island and walked over the Ward's Island Pedestrian Bridge. right now, I'm killing time before I go to sleep, because tomorrow morning I must do my 2nd day of Jury Duty. Do my services for my country, and take pics of NYC. :-D. I don't have any scheduled events for nyc_tabs right now. Any expedition I go on with my camera alone or with ppl is considered a nyc_tabs field trip. just everyone is from florida, so... it doesn't matter if i say i'm going out monday with my camera. ha.

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Ok, I tried doing this yesterday, but my computer is on crack..so here's round two.

Three pictures from East River Day, September 14, 2002.

Enjoy, fellow tab-ers!

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