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Streets of El Barrio: East 116th Street between First Ave and Second Ave in Spanish Harlem, upper Manhattan

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Grand Army Plaza, Brooklyn, New York

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St. Paul’s Chapel is part of the Parish of @TrinityWallSt and was built in 1766. Alexander Hamilton drilled troops in the churchyard during the Revolutionary War and it was the place of the religious service following Washington's inauguration as the first President in 1789. pic.twitter.com/JJdxzC07k6

— Landmarks Commission (@nyclandmarks) July 6, 2018

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Benziger House in autumn by Jeff Reuben Via Flickr: The Nicholas C. and Agnes Benziger House, located at Edgecombe Avenue and West 150th Street in Harlem, was built in 1891. Its owner was a successful book publisher specializing in Catholic books. Designed by architect Williams Schickel, this house was built in an area that included other mansions, including one by James A. Bailey of circus fame. However the area soon developed with apartment houses, so this building is a vestige of an earlier less urban era in Harlem's history. (As a point of clarification, this area was in the past considered to be part of Washington Heights, but in our times the dividing line between Harlem and Washington Heights is commonly considered to be 155th Street After the Benzigers sold the house in 1920, it was used as a medical facility for a time and later as a "hotel," according to some sources, or a brothel according to others. Today, this building is operated by Broadway Housing Communities, a non-profit housing provider, as a residence for formerly homeless single adults. *** "The Benziger House was constructed in 1890-91 in a section of Harlem that still resembled a country village. The house was the residence of Agnes Benziger and her husband Nicholas, a successful publisher, manufacturer and importer of religious books and articles. Designed by the prominent German architect William Schuckel, the mansion features a flared mansard roof pierced by numerous gabled dormers and a richly colored iron-spot brick façade. The building remained in the Benziger family until 1920 when it became part of a medical institution. In 1989, the property was acquired, with support from the City of New York and the Abraham family, to provide permanent housing for homeless adults." NYC Landmarks Plaque

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Waiting for our Lady(Liberty)

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Queen of the Cort

Today’s mournfully exposed facade of the Cort Theatre belies the cavalcade of celebrated actors who have played behind those 105 year old bricks. Stars of stage and screen like Eli Wallach, Jessica Tandy, Al Pacino, Ossie Davis, Ruby Dee, Kirk Douglas, Anthony Perkins, Robert Redford, Kevin McCarthy, James Earl Jones, Uta Hagen, Walter Matthau, Alan Alda, Grace Kelly, Marlon Brando, James Dean, Ethel Barrymore, Laurence Olivier, Lillian Gish, James Cagney, Katherine Hepburn, Denzel Washington, Nicole Kidman, Ian McKellan, and Patrick Stewart. 

But on December 20, 1912, perhaps the most mythical of all opened the theater portraying the titular heroine in J. Hartley Manners’ “Peg O’ My Heart”: Laurette Taylor (1883-1946). The comedy concerning Taylor’s poor Irish-American girl who visits relatives in London ran for 603 performances. It was such a triumph the Cort would revive it again with her on February 14, 1921 for 88 installments. Although Taylor would go to Hollywood to film the show with King Vidor in 1922, she’d never move away from her native New York. Her first line as Peg was simple: “I just came in.”

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(Photo by Riff Chorusriff. The west side fire-escaped wall of the Cort Theatre, 138 West 48th Street. Like many of its Broadway peers, it was designated as both an interior and individual landmark by the Landmarks Preservation Commission in 1987. December 11, 2017.)

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Streets of El Barrio: East 115th Street between Second Ave and First Ave in Spanish Harlem, upper Manhattan

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Streets of Morningside Heights: West 123rd Street between Amsterdam Ave. and Broadway in Morningside Heights, Harlem, upper Manhattan

This area is a historical landmark known as Fort Laight.  While there are no remains left of the fort, there is a lovely garden in its place.