Lamps

Abingdon Sq Lamp

2019-03-122019-03-10Sherry Felix4 Comments

Lamp with a glow in the snow. The last of this series of my March 2nd outing.

Grace Court Alley

2018-10-042018-10-03Sherry Felix24 Comments

I went to Brooklyn to visit Grace Court and Grace Court Alley. Most of these are good for

Norm’s Thursday Doors.
Forgotten NY has great information plus maps

There a few gas lights too. Reminded me of London in the 50s when a lamplighter used come light the lamp outside my window every night.

Grace Court

42 Grace Court

Grace Court

Grace Court Alley

Horatio Lamps

2018-09-062019-11-10Sherry Felix9 Comments

Two lamps on Horatio Street, NYC from my lamp photo collection.
I created a Lamp category https://port4u.net/category/challenges/lamps/

Riverside

2018-08-302018-09-06Sherry Felix16 Comments

Doors on Riverside Drive, Manhattan and a lamp over a door on West 81st Street by the American Museum of Natural History.

For Norm’s Thursday doors 8/30/2018

20180825_78-Riverside_01 — 78 Riverside Drive

20180825_131-Riverside_01 — 131 Riverside Drive

20180825_74-Riverside_01 — 74 riverside Drive

20180825_81St_01 — Lamp at The Bedford, 20 W 81st Street

74 & 79 Street Doors

2018-08-092018-09-06Sherry Felix13 Comments

Roosevelt

Upper East Side, 74th and 79th Street doors. Elenore Roosevelt lived in one of these.

For Norm’s Thursday Doors.

East 75 Street Doors

2018-07-052018-09-06Sherry Felix9 Comments

A couple more of Manhattan’s classic, exclusive, Upper East Side doors.

For Norm’s Thursday Doors

20180623_57-St_01 — 7 East 75th Street, 6/23/2018

20180623_57-St_02 — 7 East 75th Street, 6/23/2018

20180623_57-St_03 — 8 East 75th Street, 6/23/2018

Patchin Place Doors

2018-06-072018-09-06Sherry Felix30 Comments

I had a request from a fellow blogger to show the home of E. E. Cummings (1894-1962). The charming alley he lived in is called Patchin Place next to Jefferson Market Library.

The property that became Patchin Place and Milligan Place was once part of a farm belonging to Sir Peter Warren. In 1799 it was sold to Samuel Milligan, who later conveyed it to his son-in-law, Aaron Patchin. The buildings that now occupy the site were put up in 1848-1852 as boarding houses for Basque waiters and other workers at the nearby Brevoort House hotel on 5th Avenue.

A story: The then modernist writer Djuna Barnes (1982-1982) moved into a room-and-a-half apartment at 5 Patchin Place in 1941. She became so reclusive that Cummings would occasionally check on her by shouting out his window “Are you still alive, Djuna?”.