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Lost City: Wooden Phone Booth Sighting: Kew Gardens Cinema
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Wooden Phone Booth Sighting: Kew Gardens Cinema. I don't think I've ever posted an item regarding Kew Gardens. Well, that changes today, as a kind reader sent me this photo of a wooden phone booth on view inside Kew Gardens Cinema. Posted by Brooks of Sheffield. Wooden phone booth sighting. Upstate Johnny G said. This one even has the little seat.AND a phone! And an overhead light. Very cool. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). The Union Street Project" Columns. Wooden Phone Booth Sightings. The Wall Str...
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Lost City: Lost City's "Who Goes There?" Columns
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Lost City's "Who Goes There? The following are the collected editions of the "Who Goes There? Columns. Each edition originally appeared on Eater.com. Joe and Pat's Pizzeria. The Tap and Grill. Bohemian Hall Beer Garden. Sammy's Roumanian Steak House. John's of 12th Street. Posted by Brooks of Sheffield. Labels: who goes there? Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). The Union Street Project" Columns. Wooden Phone Booth Sightings. Recipes of the Lost City" Columns. See more and add to Lost City's Photo Pool.
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Lost City: The History of the Valley Candle Company
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The History of the Valley Candle Company. A couple years ago, I posted an item. About how the television series "Miami Vice," in 1985, was allowed to blow up up an old business on Columbia Street called the Valley Candle Company. The family sold the business in the '70s. Posted by Brooks of Sheffield. I dont know him, but I miss him. Thanks for the memory. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). The Union Street Project" Columns. Wooden Phone Booth Sightings. Recipes of the Lost City" Columns. Fazil's Times ...
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Lost City: ANOTHER Giambelli's Memory
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I have to say, Giambelli's must have been some place. I wrote about it's closing. After 50 years on E. 50th Street, five years ago. And the comments and memories keep flowing in. Makes me hurt inside that I never went there. This one came the other day. It's from "Peniche" in New Zealand (! Just read and marvel:. Posted by Brooks of Sheffield. Love this story. Loved that restaurant. Such a shame it was taken from us. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). The Union Street Project" Columns. Doesn't Own the B...
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Lost City: Wooden Phone Booth Sightings
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Wooden Phone Booth Sightings. Farrell's Bar and Grill. Posted by Brooks of Sheffield. Labels: wooden phone booth sighting. The New York State Appellate Division courthouse on Monroe Pl in Brooklyn has a bunch of wooden phone booths. Art Students League on 57th Street has two. There are wooden phone booths in the lobby of New York Hospital - 525 East 68th Street. There are some great ones inside the lobby of 31 Chambers Street, Surrogates Court. Http:/ www.flickr.com/photos/lisanne001/5243099940/. 45 Monr...
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Lost City: Lost City "UNION STREET PROJECT" Columns
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Lost City "UNION STREET PROJECT" Columns. The following are the entries thus far of Lost City's "The Union Street Project," in which I unearth the history of every building along the once bustling Brooklyn commercial strips of Union Street between Hicks and Van Brunt, and Columbia Street between Sackett and Carroll. (The addresses not hyperlinked are yet to be written. North Side of Union Street btw. Hicks and Columbia. Western corner building (225 Columbia). Western corner building (110 Union). Lost Cit...
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Lost City: Owns the Building (Landlord-Safe Landmarks)
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Owns the Building (Landlord-Safe Landmarks). There historic New York City businesses own the buildings in which they are located, and are thus safe from the whims of rapacious landlords. Bohemian Hall and Beer Garden. House of Pizza and Calzone. John's of 12th Street. McSorley's Old Ale House. Posted by Brooks of Sheffield. Three years later, there's a few on this list that bit the dust anyway. 2nd av deli? I don't think they owned. The Ear Inn is on the list twice. Roass is selling anyway. Cono and Sons...
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Lost City: New Photo of Cariero's Restaurant
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New Photo of Cariero's Restaurant. I have been chronicling the history of Cafiero's Restaurant for five years or so now and accumulated quite a cache was previously unseen, private photographs of the once-legendary Brooklyn restaurant by now. What I still lack is an actual artifact from the place: a napkin, ashtray, menu, advertisement, plate, anything. I know it wasn't the kind of place that printed menus, or advertised, or have dishware with its name on it. But I keep hoping. At your door step. Oyster ...
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Lost City: Doesn't Own the Building (Landlord-Prone Landmarks)
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Doesn't Own the Building (Landlord-Prone Landmarks). These New York City business landmarks do not own the buildings in which they are located, and are thus prone to the whims of rapacious landlords. Eisenberg's Sandwich Shop (long lease). Posted by Brooks of Sheffield. Looking for information or photo regarding the former Tavern Stubens at 163 West 47 st.New York City NY. You should probably update this list. Many of the places on here are now gone. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Vesuvio Bakery (sp...
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Lost City: "Recipes of the Lost City" Columns
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Recipes of the Lost City" Columns. The followed are past edition of the "Recipes of the Lost City" column. As stated at the beginning of each edition, in this column "I rummage through my library of old New York restaurant histories and cookbooks and dig up the prime dishes the denizens of the five boroughs dined on in years gone by.". Gage and Tollner's Crabmeat a la Dewey. Hampshire House's Veal Steak Saute Provencale. Longchamps Chicken Manhattan House. Trader Vic's Mai Tai. The original, running Jere...
