Sep. 25, 2008 - NYC photos / could not stop scrolling

is it memory lane if I am too young to remember (or to have been alive then)?
Hat tip to today's Today's MUG from Manhattan User's Guide for linking to a forum on WiredNY with an amazing collection of photos, mostly of Manhattan, mostly black and white, some more than a hundred years old. Once I started scrolling, I kept thinking, only a few more, then I will get back to work.... But I scrolled through the whole thing in one sitting.

one Manhattan loft angle
I am sure that many pictures could front stories about Manhattan lofts (especially the Broadway shots), but the one that immediately caught my eye with a Manhattan Loft Guy angle is the 10th one down, "Tiffany's Union Square" from 1899. That is the building now marketed as 15 Union Square West, which I touched on in a very early post: July 7, 2006: dynamic city / time runs out on a stripped Tiffany's.

condo inevitability, indeed
But I was wrong about "the inevitable condo": the structure hasn't been torn down for condo development, but stripped to its 130 year old cast-iron skeleton and reclad in glass over the cast-iron  (and gut renovated, of course), with another 6 stories built on top.  http://www.15usw.com/

Enjoy the photos ... see if you can pull away before scrolling through them all.