2641 Broadway View of 2641 Broadway taken from southeast; Courtesy NYC Municipal Archive The Grimm Building by Tom Miller In 1871 Henry Grimm was ahead of the game. He purchased the northwest corner lot at 100th Street and Broadway—then called the Boulevard—and erected a building. Within a decade the streets of the...
2626 Broadway View of 2626 Broadway from west. Image Courtesy NYC Municipal Archive. The Metro (Midtown) Theatre by Tom Miller The seven-story Glenham Apartments opened at No. 2626 Broadway, between 99th and 100th Streets, in 1902. The sprawling apartments–seven and eight rooms each–were by no means...
By Claudie Benjamin Columbus Circle has been a moving target for decades with its character and the geography of its traffic routes changing over time. In the early 1940s, artist Henry E. Schnakenberg (1892-1970) who then lived on West End Avenue, captured the vitality of the southeast corner of West 58th Street. The painting, now part...
By Claudie Benjamin Celebration is the way Melanie Wesslock describes life. Her professional life as a portrait and event photographer involves her in many profoundly special celebratory moments. Take, for example, her images of a surprise proposal on Bow Bridge in Central Park last fall. Then another photo...
Eleanor Roosevelt Statue View of Eleanor Roosevelt Statue from east. Eleanor Roosevelt Statue by Tom Miller Although Anna Eleanor Roosevelt was born to a socially prestigious family in 1884, her interests were far removed from the endless teas, dances and dinner parties expected of a turn-of-the-century debutante. Instead, upon returning from...
