Nazikeda Kadın, who died OTD in 1941, was first wife and chief consort of the last sultan, Mehmed VI of the Ottoman Empire; the woman who would have been a later empress lived in #NewYorkCity https://cromwell-intl.com/travel/usa/new-york-ottoman-sultan/?s=mb #travel #history
Looking for the Ottoman Sultan

The man who would have been the last Sultan of the Ottoman Empire moved to Manhattan. Where was his home?

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More #community #gardens pics. Always something to see, always something new pushing up out of the ground.
#daffodil #time #NYC #midtown #Manhattan #plant #grow #bloom #tree #bush #Spring #season #NewYorkCity #birds #chirping #bees #buzzing
Midtown is BLOOMING! The playgrounds, the community gardens, the STREETS are screaming Spring.
#BloomScrolling #HappySpring #NYC #midtown #Manhattan #NewYorkCity #flowering #trees #Clinton #neighborhood #community #gardens
44th Manhattan again, but just near Birdland, not at Birdland.
It looked like they were putting in wiring, maybe. I walked in the street, not underneath like my brave friend in green umbrella.
#NYC #drizzle #sidewalk #barricade #workers #cherry #picker #NewYorkCity #green #umbrella #Birdland #jazz #legend #Manhattan
The backup pair I mention here is now gone, days/ weeks later. They were brown with black arms. I went back to the store, the restaurant, but couldn't find them. Now I'm on to the round backup pairs, which I decided I didn't like. Time to find a street fair, replenish my annual supply!
#cheap #readers #spring #temple #glasses #NYC #StreetFair #bargain #NewYorkCity #shopper #picked #over #stores #crazy #high #prices #DuaneReade #Walgreens #highway #robbery on #NinthAvenue
Map of the western part of the state of New York , 1823 (New York City, New York)

From Digital Collections of New York Public Library
http://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/510d47da-…
#NewYork #NewYorkCity #NYC #NYPL #US #USA #history #image #photo #maps #cartography
Industrialist and philanthropist Peter Cooper, who died OTD in 1883, founded the Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art, at the west end of Saint Marks Place in #NewYorkCity https://cromwell-intl.com/travel/usa/new-york-st-marks-place/?s=mb #travel #history
St Marks Place in the East Village

Walk the length of St Marks Place, from 3rd Avenue east to Avenue A and Tompkins Square Park.

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