The photo was taken sometime in the late 1940's. The view is Grand Street looking east towards Ludlow Street. The Dairy Restaurant (a...

originally from the early days of pseudo-intellectualism Another Sanborn Insurance gem. A shout out to my nephew Jamie, whose U of Buffalo...

I forgot to include these in the thread about the recent fire at 283 Grand Street 283 Grand History The connection to 283 Grand Stree...

290-294-grand-st                                                             A previous post with a then and now view of Grand and Eldrid...

  This is diagonally across the street from where the April 11th fire took place in 2010.

from an account from the nytimes Before City’s Worst Fire in Years, History of Neglect, By RAY RIVERA and COLIN MOYNIHAN The building in...

I was at the Eldridge Street Synagogue yesterday. More on that later. It reminded me of this then and now set I had In the summer of 1942 al...