Kathryn Yu

Inside the home of Collector of Victorian Electricity Tim Mullen with Atlas Obscura and the Morbid Anatomy Museum:

1. An Art Deco radio;

2. A carbon arc blueprinting frame from 1905;

3. Anatomical model of the human brain;

4. Tim demonstrates some rotating Geissler tubes lighting up in different colors (popular for entertainment during the 1880s);

6. A floor-standing early Emerson TV model 304 with mirror component from 1940;

7. Close-up of a portable 3″ PilotTV-37 screen from 1948;

8. A Ritter Model A x-ray machine from 1920

Last October, I took a fascinating “Walk the Internet” tour with Andrew Blum, author of Tubes: A Journey to the Center of the Internet. 

Above:

1. 195 Broadway, the former headquarters of the American Telephone and Telegraph, as well as Western Union.

2. Standing at the intersection of Church & Murray Street, as described by the New York Times.

3. An Empire City Subway (ECS) manhole cover. ECS owns the conduit system running underneath New York City: approximately 11,000 manholes and 58 million feet of conduit.

Building date: 1980 renovation: 1999-2000 Architect: LOT/EK

A petroleum trailer tank encapsulates private areas within this apartment on the fourth floor of a former parking garage. One section containing two sleeping pods is placed horizontally over the living room and is equipped with hatchback doors operated by hydraulic pistons, the second section is installed vertically housing two stacked bathrooms.

http://www.lot-ek.com/following/lot-ek.com/MORTON-LOFT

Highlights from driving around Oahu. 

11 awesome things to do in Maui:

The Cunard Building, designed by architect Benjamin Wistar Morris and completed in 1921, is an Italian neo-Renaissance inspired masterpiece, with 65 foot high ceilings, soaring marble columns and magnificent inlaid floors. The grandly presented marine theme underscores the power and reach of the Cunard Line when its new headquarters opened in 1919 and New York had become the largest city and busiest port in the world.

Architect: Joseph François Mangin and John McComb, Jr., 1812; Rehabilitation, Beyer Blinder Belle, 2015 Additional: NYC Public Design Commission Completed in 1812, New York’s City Hall is one of the oldest City Halls in the nation still serving its original purpose. It is the third home of New York's government, but the first to be built specifically as a municipal seat. It is a National Historic Landmark and an NYC Landmark, and the rotunda, lit by a central oculus and graced by a “floating" staircase, is an NYC interior landmark.

The Randel Farm map created by John Randel Jr. is the first map that plotted the 1811 "Commissioner's Plan" which established the Manhattan street grid—from Houston St. to 155th Street—and also encompasses the rest of the island, from The Battery to Inwood. It consists of 92 hand-drawn and hand-colored panels, created over the span of 2 years. 

Last weekend was the first time ever that it was displayed, in full. 

Colson Patisserie is a bakery dedicated to classic Belgian/French pastries, supplying hotels, coffee shops, as well as their own cafe in Park Slope.

Liddabit Sweets is a candy company based in Brooklyn, New York, specializing in handmade candy bars, caramels, honeycomb candy, lollipops, and more.

Muralist Hildreth Meière was commissioned by Voorhees, Gmelin & Walker in 1930 to design a ceiling mural depicting the "Continents Linked by the Telephone and Wireless" as a reflection of the purpose of the building. Working in the Art Deco style, Meière re rendered allegorical personifications of Europe, Asia, Africa, and Australia connected by telephone and telegraph wires to each other and to the female messengers depicted in the center of the ceiling. The lobby was designated an interior landmark in 1991.