RememberNYC: Meatpacking District, Gansevoort Street Markets Welcome to the Meatpacking District, once known as the Gansevoort Street Markets.
This unique neighborhood prides itself on an eclectic and glorious past. From Native Americans and Dutch settlers to butchers and market vendors, men and women in a variety of uniforms have lived, worked, and played in this neighborhood, which is evolving faster than any other in New York City. Where 200 meatpacking businesses operated just twenty years ago, only eight remain. Restaurants, hotels,
http://www.amazon.com/From-Windmills-World-Trade-Center/dp/0961085835
From Windmills to the World Trade Center: Lower Manhattan, a Walking Guide Through History From Windmills to the World Trade Center: Lower Manhattan, a Walking Guide Through History
07/12/2013
Now this is a good invention! http://www.springwise.com/biodegradable-cigarette-filter-helps-clear-streets-discarded-butts/
Biodegradable cigarette filter helps clear streets of discarded butts Greenbutts is a cigarette filter made of organic material that biodegrades in weeks.
07/11/2013
Wow. This guy has lived in the meatpacking district for 38 years. Im sure he's got a few stories up his sleeve.
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/14/realestate/14habi.html?pagewanted=all&_r=1&
What a Difference 38 Years Make - New York Times After 38 years in the meatpacking district, Vincent Inconiglios cannot believe that his once-obscure neighborhood is a destination.
07/09/2013
We are now on Instagram: http://instagram.com/remembernyc_mepa
Art Deco of the 1930s
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Join architectural historian Barry Lewis for this Sunday program on New York’s Art Deco buildings of the 1930s. From the Empire State and Chrysler Buildings to more modest buildings about town, Art Deco was the dominant style of...
06/24/2013
06/19/2013
Fun fact: Oyster carts, eventually replaced by hot dog vendors, could be found along the shipping docks in the far West Village!
06/18/2013
http://gvshp.org/blog/2013/06/17/you-oughta-be-in-pictures-2013-village-award-winners/
You Oughta Be in Pictures: 2013 Village Award Winners Before the creation of Sir Winston Churchill Square, 6th Avenue was much wider. Notice the older advertisement for Avignone Pharmacy in the picture on the right, 1932, via the NYPL.
Look out Meatpacking District! RememberNYC is at it again. Our 3rd edition will hit the streets late summer!
04/22/2013
http://gvshp.org/blog/2013/04/16/how-bohemians-got-their-name/
How Bohemians Got Their Name Five hundred ninety years ago tomorrow, an event took place which, implausibly enough, lead to the creation of the modern notion — or at least nomenclature — of ‘bohemia.’
03/21/2013
Check out this site!
http://www.historypin.com/
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