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most unusual house number in all of New York City is on West Fourth Street", "url": "https://ephemeralnewyork.wordpress.com/2026/04/20/the-most-unusual-house-number-in-all-of-new-york-city-is-on-west-fourth-street/", "published_at": "2026-04-20T07:01:22+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c53b-827f-73d2-abef-04e2a4425aff", "title": "A Gilded Age millionaire builds the men-only “Waldorf of the slums” hotel on Bleecker Street", "url": "https://ephemeralnewyork.wordpress.com/2026/04/20/a-gilded-age-millionaire-builds-the-men-only-waldorf-of-the-slums-hotel-on-bleecker-street/", "published_at": "2026-04-20T05:26:57+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c53b-827f-73d2-abef-04e2a4588432", "title": "Explore the city’s other Gilded Age millionaire mile this Saturday on a walk with Ephemeral New York!", "url": "https://ephemeralnewyork.wordpress.com/2026/04/16/explore-the-citys-other-gilded-age-millionaire-mile-this-saturday-on-a-walk-with-ephemeral-new-york/", "published_at": "2026-04-16T15:20:48+00:00" }, { "id": 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2026

A rich man built this hilltop dream mansion in 1850s Brooklyn, then had it confiscated to create Prospect Parkoriginal ↗
21 Sept 2026
A Prospect Heights manhole cover reveals the source of Brooklyn’s water supply a century agooriginal ↗
21 Sept 2026
The remnants of an unsolved 1920 Wall Street bomb blast can still be seen on a bank’s facadeoriginal ↗
14 Sept 2026
A Renaissance painting inspired this New York photographer to take tender portraits of kids at playoriginal ↗
14 Sept 2026
A powerful West Village 9/11 memorial asks us not to forget one young office workeroriginal ↗
7 Sept 2026
This tiny steel cottage perched on a rock pile is the smallest house ever built on Riverside Driveoriginal ↗
7 Sept 2026
Is this the last public pay phone in a New York City subway station?original ↗
31 Aug 2026
When the British took over New Amsterdam, they changed the map with these short-lived new street namesoriginal ↗
31 Aug 2026
The abandoned remains of the Hudson River Yacht Club’s once-elegant clubhouseoriginal ↗
31 Aug 2026
Searching a Gowanus factory for the remains of Maryland soldiers killed in the Battle of Brooklynoriginal ↗
24 Aug 2026
Why the Union Square subway stop is the only station that relies on automatic steel platform extendersoriginal ↗
24 Aug 2026
In the dark days of the Depression, a Jazz Age artist captures a luminous, magical New Yorkoriginal ↗
17 Aug 2026
A luxury Fifth Avenue apartment tower’s strange fake rooftoporiginal ↗
17 Aug 2026
What it was like taking a steamboat to Coney Island on a sweltering Sunday in 1895original ↗
10 Aug 2026
The Fifth Avenue church that used to be a neighborhood vaudeville and silent movie theateroriginal ↗
10 Aug 2026
The world’s largest former hat factory almost looks as beautiful today as it did in 1890s Brooklynoriginal ↗
3 Aug 2026
A tenement goes down, and a century-old chewing tobacco ad returns to the uptown cityscapeoriginal ↗
3 Aug 2026
A 1940s Third Avenue Elevated entrance that looks like a storybook cottageoriginal ↗
27 Jul 2026
A slender remnant of Ebbets Field stands at a busy intersection in Downtown Brooklynoriginal ↗
27 Jul 2026
Hidden by billboards for over 100 years, the tiny holdout building in the middle of Macy’s is back in vieworiginal ↗
27 Jul 2026
The spiteful family feud behind one of New York’s oldest and most luxurious hotelsoriginal ↗
20 Jul 2026
This 19th century Brooklyn house faces an early turnpike road that no longer existsoriginal ↗
20 Jul 2026
The mystery of the First Avenue tenement that had its top four floors sheared offoriginal ↗
13 Jul 2026
One writer’s melancholy visit to the “island full of idiots” in the East River in 1888original ↗
13 Jul 2026
Explore the 5 Great Families of the city’s Gilded Age in a live online class with Ephemeral New York!original ↗
10 Jul 2026
What you’d be wearing to Rockaway Beach or Coney Island if you were a woman in the 1860soriginal ↗
6 Jul 2026
Surrounded by concrete and apartment houses, the last farm in Manhattan was a citywide curiosityoriginal ↗
6 Jul 2026
How a former country road in the Bronx called Featherbed Lane got its evocative nameoriginal ↗
6 Jul 2026
This controversial Union Square flagpole was created to honor America’s 150th birthday in 1926original ↗
29 Jun 2026
There really used to be a family’s house underneath a notorious Coney Island roller coasteroriginal ↗
29 Jun 2026
Why these quirky Gothic houses built in 1855 in Brooklyn Heights were nicknamed “honeymoon row”original ↗
29 Jun 2026
What’s inside these fake row houses that blend into the New York City streetscape?original ↗
22 Jun 2026
How the anchorages under the Brooklyn Bridge became hidden 19th century wine vaultsoriginal ↗
22 Jun 2026
New York’s longest “step street” is this dramatic three-block concrete staircase in the Bronxoriginal ↗
15 Jun 2026
What a 19th century painter of the natural world saw from her Carroll Gardens front yard and rooftoporiginal ↗
15 Jun 2026
Vibrant color photos of 1960s Coney Island in transition, taken by a man who lived in obscurityoriginal ↗
15 Jun 2026
The story of the 19th century factory building hidden within modern Bronx high-rise towersoriginal ↗
8 Jun 2026
The teak wood carvings on a Manhattan townhouse’s front door tell an ancient epic storyoriginal ↗
8 Jun 2026
All the beaches open for swimming in Depression-era New York City, according to a subway posteroriginal ↗
1 Jun 2026
The story of a nonconforming brick row house that’s stood on Grand Street for almost 200 yearsoriginal ↗
1 Jun 2026
A defunct Downtown tool business lives on—thanks to this faded ad on the side of its former headquartersoriginal ↗
1 Jun 2026
A Decoration Day morning of buying and selling at the Canal Street flower marketoriginal ↗
25 May 2026
This modest Bronx memorial to a forgotten war was made with scrap metal from a sunken battleshiporiginal ↗
25 May 2026
The midcentury street photographer who documented New Yorkers in all their raw, unfiltered humanityoriginal ↗
25 May 2026
Themes of optimism and oppression as seen in two luminous views of the Brooklyn Bridgeoriginal ↗
18 May 2026
Is this towering London Plane the oldest tree in Central Park?original ↗
18 May 2026
From an 1890s settlement house to a 1980s symbol of gentrification, the rocky evolution of Christodora Houseoriginal ↗
18 May 2026
Why John Sloan painted this lush scene of a woman in Union Square battling the rainoriginal ↗
11 May 2026
This West Side tenement seems to be precariously perched on the pastoriginal ↗
11 May 2026
The harmony and unity of a South Bronx street once so elite, it was nicknamed the “Irish Fifth Avenue”original ↗
11 May 2026
The return of a 1970s Hallmark card store sign on a Yorkville streetoriginal ↗
4 May 2026
The rise and fall of New York City’s street and public park comfort stationsoriginal ↗
4 May 2026
The Revolutionary War-era hooks drilled into the rocks at Jeffrey’s Hook in Upper Manhattanoriginal ↗
4 May 2026
Riverside Drive’s first four row houses were built in 1889—these two sister houses are the only survivorsoriginal ↗
27 Apr 2026
Is that a tiny house on the roof of an East 57th Street tenement?original ↗
27 Apr 2026
Take a walk back to the Gilded Age on Sunday, April 26 with Ephemeral New York!original ↗
25 Apr 2026
The most unusual house number in all of New York City is on West Fourth Streetoriginal ↗
20 Apr 2026
A Gilded Age millionaire builds the men-only “Waldorf of the slums” hotel on Bleecker Streetoriginal ↗
20 Apr 2026
Explore the city’s other Gilded Age millionaire mile this Saturday on a walk with Ephemeral New York!original ↗
16 Apr 2026
A birds-eye view of Riverside Park in 1934 shows how much this slender green space has changedoriginal ↗
13 Apr 2026
A West Side woman’s devotion to two nameless “Titanic orphans” after all three survived the disasteroriginal ↗
13 Apr 2026
Once a 19th century carriage house for elite racehorses, now the Carriage House Lofts on West 150th Streetoriginal ↗
6 Apr 2026
Inside the untamed hidden garden behind Washington Mews in Greenwich Villageoriginal ↗
6 Apr 2026
This 1901 tobacco trading card captures the spirit of April Fools Day in New York Cityoriginal ↗
30 Mar 2026
Before ATMs and apps, there was “commuter banking” inside this Brooklyn subway stationoriginal ↗
30 Mar 2026
The spectacular uptown apartment building from 1905 that resembles a Roman aqueductoriginal ↗
30 Mar 2026
The ghostly remains of a legendary longtime Upper East Side movie theateroriginal ↗
23 Mar 2026
This delightful East Village faux carriage house was built in 1891 for sculptors, not horsesoriginal ↗
23 Mar 2026
The enduring phantom outline of a long-gone early 19th century house on Bond Streetoriginal ↗
16 Mar 2026
A 1907 luxury apartment house on Riverside Drive becomes “a slum with a view” a half-century lateroriginal ↗
16 Mar 2026
A troubled recluse with a camera obsessively walked the streets to chronicle postwar New York Cityoriginal ↗
16 Mar 2026
The darkness at the center of an Impressionist’s snowy New York dreamscapeoriginal ↗
9 Mar 2026
The most difficult to find Revolutionary War memorial hides in the woods of Upper Manhattanoriginal ↗
9 Mar 2026
An oil tycoon sees the future of Riverside Drive—and builds his family two dazzling neighboring mansionsoriginal ↗
9 Mar 2026
The silk ribbon mill is long gone, but the company’s 120-year-old faded ad remains on the buildingoriginal ↗
2 Mar 2026
A row of harmonious uptown houses built for the needs of Gilded Age womenoriginal ↗
2 Mar 2026
The little stories of humanity playing out on a sweltering East River pieroriginal ↗
23 Feb 2026
The story of Harlem’s last remaining wood clapboard house, built at the dawn of the Gilded Ageoriginal ↗
23 Feb 2026
Subtle reminders of the Covid pandemic on an Upper East Side subway platformoriginal ↗
23 Feb 2026
What’s on the menu at the Waldorf-Astoria birthday ball to honor the U.S. President in 1939?original ↗
16 Feb 2026
Inside Harlem’s “replica” Gilded Age rail station, tucked beneath the tracks over Park Avenueoriginal ↗
16 Feb 2026
An invitation to the opulent 19th century Bachelors’ Ball, held every year on Valentine’s Dayoriginal ↗
9 Feb 2026
Peek into the diary of a Manhattan schoolboy growing up in the booming city of the 1870soriginal ↗
9 Feb 2026
This prefabricated steel diner on Pearl Street is one of the last of its kind in Manhattanoriginal ↗
2 Feb 2026
The sacred stone box of a church beneath a finance company’s 1970s Midtown skyscraperoriginal ↗
2 Feb 2026
Tracing the life and legacy of an ironworker through a coal chute cover in Brooklyn Heightsoriginal ↗
26 Jan 2026
How long has this faded 7Up sign been hanging on a West Side corner tenement?original ↗
26 Jan 2026
The army of unemployed men who lined up to do the work of removing snow from city streetsoriginal ↗
26 Jan 2026
A midcentury snow scene reveals the magic and wonder of Madison Square in winteroriginal ↗
19 Jan 2026
The hucksters, housewives, and pageant of humanity once on display at Paddy’s Market in Hell’s Kitchenoriginal ↗
19 Jan 2026
The “entirely feasible” 1911 plan to extend Manhattan four miles into New York Harbororiginal ↗
12 Jan 2026
One of Manhattan’s last wood houses has stood on this Yorkville street since before the Civil Waroriginal ↗
12 Jan 2026
This dollhouse-like holdout built in 1899 is a lonely and curious Bronx anachronismoriginal ↗
5 Jan 2026
How New Yorkers paid for a subway ride when the system first opened in 1904original ↗
5 Jan 2026
What a panoramic winter landscape from the 1860s says about Central Park’s early yearsoriginal ↗
5 Jan 2026

2025

The story behind a haunting 1974 photo of a bar and cocktail lounge that once existed in the West Villageoriginal ↗
29 Dec 2025
Chronicling the feasting and frolicking on New Year’s Day over two centuries in New York Cityoriginal ↗
29 Dec 2025
The huddles of humanity on an anonymous Manhattan cross street during a wintry day in 1899original ↗
22 Dec 2025
This spooky holdout built in 1896 was once a “distinctly idiosyncratic” family home in a more rural Bronxoriginal ↗
22 Dec 2025
What happened to the canal that gave Canal Street its name?original ↗
15 Dec 2025
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