A plaque remaining from the Big Apple Night Club at West 135th Street and Seventh Avenue in Harlem.

Above, a 1934 plaque from the Big Apple Night Club at West 135th Street and Seventh Avenue in Harlem. Discarded as trash in 2006. Now a Popeyes fast food restaurant on Google Maps.

Recent entries:
“Instead of ‘British Summer Time’ and ‘Greenwich Mean Time’ we should just call them ‘Oven Clock Correct Time’...” (3/28)
“Has anyone here ever drank a pint of tequila? I know it’s a long shot” (3/28)
“A pint of tequila? That’s a long shot” (3/28)
“The U.S. should add three more states. Because 53 is a prime number. Then they can truly be one nation, indivisible” (3/28)
Entry in progress—BP4 (3/28)
More new entries...

A  B  C  D  E  F  G  H  I  J  K  L  M  N  O  P  Q  R  S  T  U  V  W  X  Y  Z


Page 21197 of 35820 pages ‹ First  < 21195 21196 21197 21198 21199 >  Last ›
Entry from November 27, 2016
Dry Dock District

Entry in progress—B.P.
   
Off the Grid (Greenwich Village Society for Historic Preservation)
The Decline of the Dry Dock District: 143-145 Avenue D, Part 3
BY ILANA – MARCH 29, 2011
POSTED IN: EAST VILLAGE
(...)
By this time, however, the Dry Dock District had ultimately begun its decline.  After the Civil War and the construction of the Erie Canal, wooden ships had begun the downward spiral towards obsolescence in favor of iron hulled ships.  The bustling shipbuilding neighborhood came to be dominated by waves of immigrants from Germany and Eastern Europe.  Tenements quickly replaced many of the previous single-family homes.
 
Ephemeral New York
The remains of two streets no longer on the map
October 6, 2014
Imagine the East River from 12th Street down to Grand Street lined with great ships in various stages of construction.
 
That was the reality along the river from the 1820s through the end of the 19th century, when today’s far East Village was known as the Dry Dock District (a dry dock is a narrow basin where ships would be built).
 
Thousands of New Yorkers who made their homes along Avenues B, C, and D were employed by the neighborhood industry as dock workers, mechanics, and shipbuilders.
 
Ephemeral New York
5 houses from the East Village’s shipbuilding era
November 7, 2016
If you traveled back in time to the far East Village of the mid-19th century, you would see a neighborhood sustained mainly by one industry: shipbuilding.
 
Along the East River, thousands of iron workers, mechanics, and dock men—many who were recent Irish and German immigrants—toiled in shipyards and iron works in what was then called the Dry Dock District, east of Avenue B.
 

Posted by Barry Popik
New York CityNeighborhoods • Sunday, November 27, 2016 • Permalink


Page 21197 of 35820 pages ‹ First  < 21195 21196 21197 21198 21199 >  Last ›