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Throwback Thursday, Bloomingdale Edition

1/16/2019

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1867-2019: W. 100th Street & Broadway - The Grimm Building Over the Years

By Caitlin Hawke

This is the second in what you might think of as a diptych of posts. My last Throwback post digging into the story of the Beastie Boys' genesis in the Grimm Building led me down a long rabbit hole of fascination for the structure. If you didn't see that one, click here to read the nitty gritty Beastie story.

For part two now, here in images from 1867 to present is a documentation of that remarkably unchanged site, the NW corner of 100th Street and Broadway.

​It's rare that a building is so well documented over the years, so the gallery was great fun to pull together.

Recall in my prior post that this site does not enjoy landmarked status thanks to the gimme carveouts all along Broadway -- see the map on the prior post to understand what this means.

I don't know. Maybe I am just too in love with the past. But it defies any sort of reason or logic that our preservationists wouldn't protect this special building. Before the wonky land use and real estate savvy folks start to get impatient with me, I do get that it has been altered over the years, and that the Metro owners put a lot into it to bring it back from decrepitude.  But so many readers have a huge place in their Bloomingdale hearts for this one, it just seems like a no-brainer that we, as a community, might go the extra mile for this nigh on 150 year-old structure.

​Enjoy the picture show below.  
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1 Comment
Terence Hanrahan
1/17/2019 08:03:41 am

for a short time in the early 90's, there was a store on the 2nd floor that offered for folks to pay a small fee to take an instructor led class in the then-new WINDOWS GUI-based operating systems, and Microsoft Word for Windows. Class fee included unlimited time at workstations to improve skills. This was essential for me to enhance my job skills and obtain more gainful employment.

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