Comments on: About Ephemeral New York http://ephemeralnewyork.wordpress.com Chronicling an ever-changing city through faded and forgotten artifacts Wed, 30 Dec 2009 20:55:20 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 By: Joann http://ephemeralnewyork.wordpress.com/about/#comment-4226 Joann Thu, 26 Nov 2009 13:05:57 +0000 #comment-4226 Just wanted to add that I also think your site is unique and extremely interesting. I enjoy visiting often and almost always come away with a growing curiosity about our fair city and its ghosts. Just wanted to add that I also think your site is unique and extremely interesting. I enjoy visiting often and almost always come away with a growing curiosity about our fair city and its ghosts.

]]> By: wildnewyork http://ephemeralnewyork.wordpress.com/about/#comment-4008 wildnewyork Sun, 01 Nov 2009 00:04:13 +0000 #comment-4008 Thank you! Thank you!

]]> By: Andrew http://ephemeralnewyork.wordpress.com/about/#comment-4007 Andrew Sat, 31 Oct 2009 22:16:53 +0000 #comment-4007 Just wanted to tell you that I love this website! Just wanted to tell you that I love this website!

]]> By: wildnewyork http://ephemeralnewyork.wordpress.com/about/#comment-3566 wildnewyork Wed, 16 Sep 2009 14:06:40 +0000 #comment-3566 Alan, sure, send your essay! It'll give me great ideas for new topics to cover. Hubert's in Times Square is a good one, I'm going to post something on it soon. And if you have any interesting ephemera for sale I would love to take a look. Alan, sure, send your essay! It’ll give me great ideas for new topics to cover. Hubert’s in Times Square is a good one, I’m going to post something on it soon.

And if you have any interesting ephemera for sale I would love to take a look.

]]> By: wildnewyork http://ephemeralnewyork.wordpress.com/about/#comment-3565 wildnewyork Wed, 16 Sep 2009 14:04:52 +0000 #comment-3565 Donna, thank you so much. I hope your trip to NYC on 9/11 wasn't a total washout. Donna, thank you so much. I hope your trip to NYC on 9/11 wasn’t a total washout.

]]> By: alan kaplan http://ephemeralnewyork.wordpress.com/about/#comment-3564 alan kaplan Wed, 16 Sep 2009 13:01:07 +0000 #comment-3564 dear wild I just found your site and I love it. I left E. 28th St & Lex. in 1987 to upstate, and have not yet adjusted. Still a New Yorker, and proud of it. I recently had an essay published in the local college literary mag about a trip I took from my growing up neighborhood to Times Square. I can send it, if you like. A cutesy coming of age story.. I was actually searching for a reference to the Hotel Lafayette and the long gone Hubert's Museum on 42nd St. I am an antiques dealer and I have 1000's of pieces of paper (they don't use the word ephemera up here), and I will pay more attention to NYC items in the future. Thanks for the blog and the site. I'll be back!!!! alan kaplan aka uncle alan dear wild
I just found your site and I love it. I left E. 28th St & Lex. in 1987 to upstate, and have not yet adjusted. Still a New Yorker, and proud of it.
I recently had an essay published in the local college literary mag about a trip I took from my growing up neighborhood to Times Square. I can send it, if you like. A cutesy coming of age story..
I was actually searching for a reference to the Hotel Lafayette and the long gone Hubert’s Museum on 42nd St.
I am an antiques dealer and I have 1000’s of pieces of paper (they don’t use the word ephemera up here), and I will pay more attention to NYC items in the future.
Thanks for the blog and the site. I’ll be back!!!!

alan kaplan aka uncle alan

]]> By: Donna Muller http://ephemeralnewyork.wordpress.com/about/#comment-3561 Donna Muller Wed, 16 Sep 2009 03:33:52 +0000 #comment-3561 I've been on here for a couple of hours and could stay on all night; I'm hooked. Just got back from a weekend in NYC (my birthday request for 9-11) to my 300 year old house in PA; I love both NY and history. Will be back often! I’ve been on here for a couple of hours and could stay on all night; I’m hooked. Just got back from a weekend in NYC (my birthday request for 9-11) to my 300 year old house in PA; I love both NY and history. Will be back often!

]]> By: Pierrette http://ephemeralnewyork.wordpress.com/about/#comment-3359 Pierrette Sat, 22 Aug 2009 13:22:06 +0000 #comment-3359 I've been living in exile in Iowa for the past 50 years...still a New Yorker at heart. My parents immigrated to NYC in 1948 when I was six. We lived on York Ave. and 67th Street and across the street was "The Gardens." It worked like a public library; children joined, were assigned a 5x3 foot plot of land, and were helped to plant five vegetables. There was some kind of clubhouse with books on nature etc. I recall that the only thing that grew to more than a two-inch long carrot was SWISSCHARD. We had little-kid wagons full of it and would go from door to door trying to unload it, but the ethnic groups who lived in the apartments, mostly Irish and Polish, were not so enthusiastic about it. What on earth was all this about? Left-over victory gardens from the war? Some social work thing aimed at immigrants? If anyone knows, please email me! I’ve been living in exile in Iowa for the past 50 years…still a New Yorker at heart. My parents immigrated to NYC in 1948 when I was six. We lived on York Ave. and 67th Street and across the street was “The Gardens.” It worked like a public library; children joined, were assigned a 5×3 foot plot of land, and were helped to plant five vegetables. There was some kind of clubhouse with books on nature etc. I recall that the only thing that grew to more than a two-inch long carrot was SWISSCHARD. We had little-kid wagons full of it and would go from door to door trying to unload it, but the ethnic groups who lived in the apartments, mostly Irish and Polish, were not so enthusiastic about it. What on earth was all this about? Left-over victory gardens from the war? Some social work thing aimed at immigrants? If anyone knows, please email me!

]]> By: Tom Brady http://ephemeralnewyork.wordpress.com/about/#comment-3355 Tom Brady Fri, 21 Aug 2009 17:07:44 +0000 #comment-3355 great stuff as always e. i check in all the time. we need to get together soon. great stuff as always e. i check in all the time. we need to get together soon.

]]> By: wildnewyork http://ephemeralnewyork.wordpress.com/about/#comment-3006 wildnewyork Mon, 29 Jun 2009 17:30:16 +0000 #comment-3006 Thank you for the kind words. I don't know where you can find info on ice cream parlors except to browse sites such as forgotten-ny.com, lostnewyorkcity.blogspot.com, and vanishingnewyork,blogspot.com. It's a great idea for a future post here. Thank you for the kind words. I don’t know where you can find info on ice cream parlors except to browse sites such as forgotten-ny.com, lostnewyorkcity.blogspot.com, and vanishingnewyork,blogspot.com. It’s a great idea for a future post here.

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