Preservationists, including e.e. cummings, succeeded in turning the abandoned courthouse, slated for demolition, into a branch library, 1967. Sherlock Holmes did his research here in the filmThey Might Be Giants. North: Corner (18 Greenwich Ave):This 1954 building housed Sutter's French Bakery...
when it replaced an 1856 building where U.S. Grant had worshipped that burned down in 1928. The congregation was originally the FirstWesleyan Chapel, founded in 1833, later becoming the Central Church and then the Metropolitan Temple. Now, after a merger with two other progressive congregations...
Cohen Hats & Caps, Barmon Dry Goods and Millinery, Pinkel Dye Works, Wechter Furnishings, Brown Fancy Goods and MIllinery, Spencer & Co Tailor and the Wells Street Chapel. Map of the Burned District of destroyed buildings after the Wells Street Fire. Source: Buffalo Express. Modern view of ...
This next series of streets will be streets around the Frederick Douglass Senior Community: Mary B. Talbert Blvd, Mary Johnson Boulevard and Gladys Holmes Boulevard. The Frederick Douglass Towers were formerly known as the Talbert Mall Development, sometimes called the Jefferson Ave Projects. The are...
Named for Nixon supporter, antisemite and child molester Elmer Holmes Bobst; a corrupt contribution from Bobst to Nixon is supposedly responsible for the selection of Spiro Agnew as Nixon's running mate. Lili Taylor studies here in The Addiction. At least two real-life NYU students have ...