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The city annotated through its found letters, and the stories they tell. Project by @sashaT & @lubalincenter

Some nice manhole and coal chute covers from around Brooklyn. DCW=Department of City Works (Brooklyn)

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DCW=Department of City Works (Brooklyn)
annotatedcity's tweet image. Some nice manhole and coal chute covers from around Brooklyn. 
DCW=Department of City Works (Brooklyn)
annotatedcity's tweet image. Some nice manhole and coal chute covers from around Brooklyn. 
DCW=Department of City Works (Brooklyn)
annotatedcity's tweet image. Some nice manhole and coal chute covers from around Brooklyn. 
DCW=Department of City Works (Brooklyn)

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Your ticket to take a trolley car ride across the new Williamsburg Bridge ephemeralnewyork.wordpress.com/2017/08/28/you…

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Treffurth's sign atop 732 Broadway, made in 1906 by architect C. F. Melville. More on its colorful history: daytoninmanhattan.blogspot.com/2015/03/treffu…

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More on its colorful history: daytoninmanhattan.blogspot.com/2015/03/treffu…

Automotive High School in Williamsburg BK.

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Fulton St station glazed bas-relief tile made by Rookwood Pottery, 1905 --see also: ephemeralnewyork.wordpress.com/2012/12/06/the…

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From a 1944 Army-Navy Screen Magazine newsreel, Al Smith narrating a trip through the Lower East Side. @discovering_NYC


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Time travel to the New York of 1979 with these previously unseen photos ephemeralnewyork.wordpress.com/2017/07/03/a-d…

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Brooklyn Lithogranite Co, a pavement company's cement marker. Seen on Jefferson Ave.

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HENRY MOHR & BROs. Car repair and sales shop. Bed-Sty, Clifton Place.

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Some of the nicest numbers in the city. East Village, East 9th.

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A very ornate street marker. Corner of E. 12th & University Place.

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Old enamel street signs in Bed-Stuy.

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Lovely lettering on Eastern Parkway

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M. Blumberg sign in Bushwick

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Light up elevator sign at the R. H. Macy and Company Store (Macy's)

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Coal chute cover on 5th Avenue.

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The Barbetta restaurant on West 46th street. Sign from c. 1925 eater.com/2010/9/13/6719…

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The Corner, 6th Ave/W24th St

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