Kips Bay Bonus

Here are a few more images from last week’s visit to Kips Bay

Kips Bay - Manhattan

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203 East 29th Street, a rare surviving wood frame home from the 1790s

P.L. Sperr, 1915. from NYPL

P.L. Sperr, 1935 from NYPL

“when the city went to the grid pattern for streets in 1811, many such buildings were destroyed, and many more were lost in the great fire of 1835. The house on East 29th Street, which is privately owned, was a lucky survivor.”¹

Edmund Vincent Gillon, 1965 Museum of the City of New York