Thursday, October 29, 2015

REMEMBER: FLAG ON THE ROCK CIRCA 1938


Who can guess the location of this uptown vantage point taken circa 1938?  The rock on the right is a major clue but also one of the buildings to the left also still stands today. An updated photo will be posted later on in the day.

ANSWER: West 123rd Street looking east towards Morningside Avenue.  A schoolhouse has been built on top of the rock.  Public housing replaced the apartments on the near left and the older building still standing is another school.  Archival image courtesy NYPL
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  1. Ken SacharinOctober 29, 2015 at 10:26 AM

    123 Morningside Drive (side facing West 123rd Street). During Hurricane Sandy, a public school landed on the rock. Luckily, the witch who lived here at the time was at Fairway.

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  2. UnknownOctober 29, 2015 at 10:53 AM

    Madison and 122?

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  3. Morningside NeighborOctober 29, 2015 at 2:23 PM

    123rd facing towed Morningside Ave, from Amsterdam. On the left is now a school (well, three schools sharing the same building, I think). The top of the hill is now a school too. I think the structure there had been a very old fortification.

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  4. DaveOctober 29, 2015 at 2:53 PM

    Southeast corner of West 123rd and Amsterdam looking east.

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  5. JoeOctober 29, 2015 at 9:43 PM

    The old fortification was Blockhouse #4, one of four blockhouses built to protect the city from the British in the War of 1812. It, along with Blockhouses 2 and 3 (which were along present day Morningside Ave) are long gone but Blockhouse #1 still stands at the northern edge of Central Park near Adam Clayton Powell Blvd.

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