Tag: Flatiron Building

PODCAST: The Flatiron Building

Post author By Bowery Boys
Post date December 6, 2007
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What are the Bowery Boys doing in Chicago? Just a little detour in our search for the origins of the Flatiron Building, the wedge shaped, wind producing oddity — built as an office space in a department store neighborhood which grew to become one of the most romantic, elegant buildings in New York City. Listen… Read More

Tags Flatiron Building, Podcasts

Worth Square: Madison Square’s cemetery for one

Post author By Bowery Boys
Post date September 24, 2007
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As you can tell from this lithograph of the Worth Monument dedication in 1857, it predates most of the development that surrounds it today. (NYPL) Few Americans have been so honored by their country that their remains have been buried in the middle of the most famous street in America in their own personal cemetery.… Read More

Tags Five Points, Flatiron Building, Madison Square Park, Worth Street