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"https://ephemeralnewyork.wordpress.com/2025/09/22/a-gilded-age-sugar-baron-and-his-wife-build-a-fifth-avenue-house-of-fantasy-for-their-family-and-art-collection/", "published_at": "2025-09-22T08:19:03+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c586-b084-7228-807a-8110b30f6329", "title": "The enchanting stained glass luring drinkers into one of Midtown’s dwindling workingman’s taverns", "url": "https://ephemeralnewyork.wordpress.com/2025/09/15/the-enchanting-stained-glass-luring-drinkers-into-one-of-midtowns-dwindling-workingmans-taverns/", "published_at": "2025-09-15T09:48:14+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c586-b084-7228-807a-8110b3b99da4", "title": "Inside the Gilded Age childhoods of six clever siblings raised in “zany confusion” on Riverside Drive", "url": "https://ephemeralnewyork.wordpress.com/2025/09/15/inside-the-gilded-age-childhoods-of-six-clever-siblings-raised-in-zany-confusion-on-riverside-drive/", "published_at": "2025-09-15T08:53:10+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c586-b084-7228-807a-8110b485fd50", 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This forgotten stretch of Central Park was originally intended to be a road that celebrated winteroriginal ↗
15 Dec 2025
This tucked-away holdout house in East Midtown was built 3 years afer the end of the Civil Waroriginal ↗
8 Dec 2025
A decades-old subway relic hangs from the ceiling in Brooklyn’s neglected Court Street stationoriginal ↗
8 Dec 2025
Searching for the East Side store in the opening scene of 1947’s “Miracle on 34th Street”original ↗
8 Dec 2025
What a remarkable candid photo of a “soap fat man” in Prospect Park says about Brooklyn in 1878original ↗
1 Dec 2025
The enduring appeal of New York City’s lovely vintage letter boxes and mail chutesoriginal ↗
1 Dec 2025
The mysterious origins of Mitchell Place, possibly Manhattan’s most obscure one-block streetoriginal ↗
1 Dec 2025
This building is one of the last cast-iron structures in the Financial District, and it hides an unusual backstoryoriginal ↗
24 Nov 2025
The Lincoln Tunnel’s 88th birthday is almost here—and it’s time to celebrate this engineering wonderoriginal ↗
24 Nov 2025
The sweet story of the 1930s “Hansel and Gretel cottage” tucked beside the Queensboro Bridgeoriginal ↗
17 Nov 2025
Reading the sides of old factory buildings from the platform of a Brooklyn elevated trainoriginal ↗
17 Nov 2025
The Art Deco beauty of Bloomingdale’s 59th Street streamlined and stylized elevatorsoriginal ↗
10 Nov 2025
A luminous wartime scene of France’s fearless Blue Devils marching on Fifth Avenueoriginal ↗
10 Nov 2025
Inside the eerie, unfinished 1930s subway station under a South Williamsburg streetoriginal ↗
10 Nov 2025
The geometry of 1940s New York City under the Third Avenue Eloriginal ↗
3 Nov 2025
Drama and heartbreak in the “lost children’s room” at the Mulberry Street police headquartersoriginal ↗
3 Nov 2025
Tracing the colonial-era origins of an obscure Belgian block alley deep in the Financial Districtoriginal ↗
3 Nov 2025
A brick facade is all that remains of a counting house that held out on Pearl Street for nearly 200 yearsoriginal ↗
27 Oct 2025
The beauty of Bleecker Street’s pushcarts, captured by an artist who preferred the city’s gritty sideoriginal ↗
27 Oct 2025
Going on a “midnight ramble” with Teddy Roosevelt in his quest to reform the city’s corrupt police forceoriginal ↗
27 Oct 2025
The Halloween trick mischief-making city kids at the turn of the century played on hapless adultsoriginal ↗
20 Oct 2025
Why the glorious doors of Riverside Church depict angels, saints, kings—and Albert Einsteinoriginal ↗
20 Oct 2025
The Upper East Side tailor who took poetic street scene photos over six decades from his shop windoworiginal ↗
13 Oct 2025
The eccentric Hungarian princess who moved into the Plaza Hotel with 12 servants and a lion cuboriginal ↗
13 Oct 2025
The tenement is a menace to all, according to a dark and blunt illustration from 1901original ↗
6 Oct 2025
Unhappily married to a UK royal, this Gilded Age dollar princess became the great-grandmother of Princess Dianaoriginal ↗
6 Oct 2025
A ghostly old house on the edge of the Hudson River, and the boxer who lived there with his familyoriginal ↗
29 Sept 2025
The oldest street sign still functioning in New York City might be this one in Murray Hilloriginal ↗
29 Sept 2025
What a 1912 painting might be saying about the changing social rules of New York’s public spacesoriginal ↗
22 Sept 2025
A Gilded Age sugar baron and his wife build a Fifth Avenue “house of fantasy” for their family and art collectionoriginal ↗
22 Sept 2025
The enchanting stained glass luring drinkers into one of Midtown’s dwindling workingman’s tavernsoriginal ↗
15 Sept 2025
Inside the Gilded Age childhoods of six clever siblings raised in “zany confusion” on Riverside Driveoriginal ↗
15 Sept 2025
The solemn 9/11 memorial hidden behind the corporate office towers of Sixth Avenue in Midtownoriginal ↗
8 Sept 2025
Tracking the 19th century granite milestones that marked the distance from City Hall to Upper Manhattanoriginal ↗
8 Sept 2025
A two-letter Manhattan phone exchange spotted in Midtown: what does it stand for?original ↗
1 Sept 2025
A disappointment to his family, this Gilded Age Vanderbilt heir ended his life in a Broadway hoteloriginal ↗
1 Sept 2025
A giant faded ad on an Upper Manhattan tenement is a remnant of a holdout family businessoriginal ↗
1 Sept 2025
An East Village restaurant’s ghost sign is a relic of the neighborhood’s Italian immigrant pastoriginal ↗
25 Aug 2025
This Upper East Side Russian Orthodox cathedral has dramatic beauty—and a dramatic backstoryoriginal ↗
25 Aug 2025
Meet the miniaturist who painted exquisite portraits of the Gilded Age’s best-known charactersoriginal ↗
18 Aug 2025
Take a walk through the Beatles-inspired co-op on 24th Street that built a Liverpool Street in its lobbyoriginal ↗
18 Aug 2025
Why the Greek goddess of sacred poetry and music stands tucked behind a fence on the Upper East Sideoriginal ↗
11 Aug 2025
This sweet 1820s house is a reminder that the Bowery was once a middle-class residential streetoriginal ↗
11 Aug 2025
The mysterious blocked-off entryways built into a Central Park transverse roadoriginal ↗
4 Aug 2025
What happened to the flashy amusement park nicknamed the Coney Island of Canarsie?original ↗
4 Aug 2025
The faceless men haunting the Third Avenue El in the twilight of the 1930s cityoriginal ↗
28 Jul 2025
The holdout houses on a former colonial-era farm by the East River meet the wrecking ball in 1914original ↗
28 Jul 2025
The strict rules of decorum at Rockaway Beach, established by a police captain in 1904original ↗
21 Jul 2025
A movie mogul builds an opulent theater on Avenue B where his childhood tenement once stoodoriginal ↗
21 Jul 2025
The circular beauty of a “ferris wheel” sewer cover in the South Bronxoriginal ↗
21 Jul 2025
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