Architecture

Moorish Door

2019-03-14Sherry Felix23 Comments

On our way tto the anual Linnaean Society of NY dinner I photgraphed the Fifth Avenue Synagogue’s Moorish style door (1927) at 50 East 87th Street, in Manhattan.

For Norm’s Thurdsay Doors

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

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?”.