New York City, New York recent comments:

is this where the Duke of Bay Ridge from? from the wolf of wall street ..

My grandmother, Emily Reese (born 1892 in Brooklyn) was a ward at this Home from circa 1895 until she was placed on an orphan train bound for the Midwest under the auspices of the NY Children's Aid Society in 1906. The Home was then known as the Home for Destitute Children. I wrote a book about my grandmother's life and her stay at this orphanage. It is titled Emily's Story: The Brave Journey of an Orphan Train Rider. In 2014 teamed up with Iowa Public Television to produce a documentary based on the book. The film is titled West by Orphan Train. The film has won two national awards (Leadership in History and Clarion), and has won an Upper Midwest Regional Emmy Award. The book and film also include memories of on of my grandmother's fellow wards of the Home for Destitute Children by the name of Mamie Gunderson.

http://loudwire.com/ramones-queens-new-york-street-named-after-them/

looks like its closer to cadman plaza WEST

Doormen here are straight from Rikers. E.G. Prison guards. Avoid! Very rude.

try their food poisoning special- always a treat!

Typo. 176 and 178 feature in this 1977 film.

178 is featured in a cameo shot in director Chantal Ackerman's 1977 film "News from Home".

The correct order of the names engraved around the building is: Moses, Jenner, Ramazzini, Hippocrates, Paracelsus, Pinel, Lind, Farr, Howard, Lister, Nightingale, Shattuck, Morton, Sims, Bard, Semmelweis, Welch, Reed, Gorgas, Smith, Dalton, Biggs, Koch, Behring, Pasteur, Leeuwenhoek, Ehrlich, Billings, and Harvey.

No, Blue Bloods uses it as the DA's Office (Erin Reagan's office).

I have ridden on the pre 1950 with a parent holding me.

Also the site of the Lufthansa Heist http://www.panynj.gov/air-cargo/jfk-service-providers.html

Neither Washington Irving nor his nephew ever lived in the house on the corner, 49 Irving place, also known as 122 E 17th Street. The nephew lived next door at 120 E 17th Street. Every owner since the house was built in 1844 is recorded in city records. Washington Irving is not one of them. His descendants have been quoted in the New York Times as saying "He never set foot in that house."

http://www.juxtapoz.com/news/installation/old-ny-aquatics-building-transformed-into-a-vibrant-installation/

Used as the treadstone building in the Bourne Ultimatum movie.

In 1950 when I was 5 years old and living up North in Rockland County my parents tool me here to have dinner with some of their friends. I recall seeing Jack walking through, greeting customers and chatting with people. Also a waitress came by selling tiny pairs of boxing gloves, the size you could hang on your rear view mirror. I heard the Spanish tone in her voice and used the two spanoish phrases we had learned at Cherry Lane School (K-1) Buenos Dais and Muy Bien, Gracias. The lady was delighted. i do not recall a reaction from my Parents or friends.

My family was in the maritime business in Staten Island when I was young. My dad had a large boat and would search for wrecks/propellers for scrap in his spare time. One day he came home with cans of soda from the Sea Witch. Not sure how he found them, but we all drank the soda and it was good. I wish I had saved a can.

This is fantastic that someone added this! :) Kudos!

I was station at Rockaway from 1950-1951 we performed search & rescue missions There were 2 38 ft cutters one gasoline one desiel engine a 36 ft lifeboat and a 30 ft boat we called Jitterbug the commanding officer name was John J. Gibbs whom I also serviced with him from 1947-1949 on the LV 87 (Scotland) off Sandy Hook N.J. which we serviced for calibration for merchant ships compass purposes