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Ephemeral New York

Chronicling an ever-changing city through faded and forgotten artifacts — a long-running blog by a writer who has been reading the streets of New York for two decades.

What You’ll Find There

Apr 16, 2026

The city’s other Gilded Age millionaire mile

Riverside Drive as a Gilded Age millionaire colony — the mansions, the tunnels to the Hudson, the rival to Fifth Avenue.

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Apr 13, 2026

A birds-eye view of Riverside Park in 1934

A 1934 aerial of Riverside Park, overlaid on what’s there now. A romantic English landscape garden that opened in the 1870s.

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Apr 13, 2026

A West Side woman’s devotion to two “Titanic orphans”

Margaret Bechstein Hays, a well-off 24-year-old from a fashionable Upper West Side block, in the spring of 1912 — and a story that has lasted ever since.

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