Good morning! Wishing you a happy Sunday, March 4th, 2018 from all of us at Viewing NYC!

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There is a lot of stuff going on the City, and we can't write about it all. Here are some interesting things some of our friends have written up lately.

• 6sqft ⇒ Real Estate Investor Wants Amazon to Build Second Headquarters on a Hudson River Landfill
• Bklyner ⇒ Falling Debris Temporarily Closes Section of Brooklyn Bridge Park
• Brokelyn ⇒ Where to Find Brooklyn-Made Bourbon: A Guide to Local Distilleries
• Curbed NY ⇒ NYCHA Seeks Developers for ‘Unused Land’ at Lower East Side Complex
• New York Times ⇒ At Serengeti Kitchen, Touches of Memoir Dot the Menu
• Untapped Cities ⇒ NYC’s First Sake Brewery and Taproom Opens in Brooklyn’s Industry City Today

This great vintage photograph from 1887 shows 42nd Street looking west from on top of the old 3rd Avenue El towards Grand Central Terminal. From Stuff Nobody Cares About:

This albumen photograph was taken in 1887 by Willis Knowlton who had his studio at 335 Fourth Avenue.

Knowlton set up his camera from the 42nd Street station of the Third Avenue Elevated looking west towards Grand Central Station. If you’re thinking, “wait a minute, why are there elevated tracks running west towards Grand Central?” The answer is, this connecting spur was in place between 1878 and 1923, taking commuters to and from Grand Central directly to the Third Avenue El. As practical as the connection was for the 15,000 daily riders still using it in 1923, the city’s Board of Estimate ordered its removal in October of that year. The IRT complied and the spur was closed at midnight December 6, 1923 and the tracks and station were demolished soon afterwards.

Check out the accompanying article for more info on the photograph.