#gansevoort

[un-minuto-en-nueva-york]

Podcast: Requiem por el Meatpacking District

[chairfence]

manhattan

photo by alissa mitchell

[eastvillagetripster]

Alternate Aspect

Artist Kiyan Williams work "Ruins of Empire II or The Earth Swallows the Master’s House". Whitney Biennial, Whitney Museum of Art, 99 Gansevoort Street, Meatpacking district, New York City.

[shadowcow]

View of southern Manhattan and Gansevoort Peninsula from Little Island park 📸

[newyorkthegoldenage]

Sunday afternoon at Gansevoort Pier, 1948.

Photo: Ruth Orkin via orkinphoto.com

[olemisekunst]

I could go back to Gansevoort Beach!

[sarkysphotoblog]

[sheltiechicago]

Centre de Beauté, 2023, oil on linen, in two parts, 51 × 110.25 inches.

Zoya Cherkassky’s oil paintings cast an ebullient and complex depiction of race relations in Tel Aviv, Paris, and a myriad of locations where she’s stopped to sketch.

© Zoya Cherkassky.

Courtesy of the artist and Fort Gansevoort.

Arrival of Foreign Professionals (after Abram Cherkassky), 2023, oil on linen, 69 × 55.25 inches.

My Family at the Immigration Office, 2023, oil on linen, 31.5 × 27.5 inches.

Caregiver, 2022, oil on linen, 39.5 × 27.5 inches.

[rwwinton]

I visited family near Albany this weekend, and while exploring a historic cemetery I stumbled across a RevWar general, and one who features prominently in my future 5th Revolution book set during the Siege of Fort Schuyler (Stanwix). I only noticed it because I thought, "that stone looks old, oh it says 1777 and there's a flag, I should go look!"

The inscriptions read:

He served under Montgomery in Canada in 1775 In 1777 defended Fort Stanwix against St. Ledger thereby preventing his junction with Burgoyne and died in active command at the beginning of the war of 1812

To the memory of Peter Gansevoort Junior a Brigadier General in the army of the United States who died on the 2nd day of June 1812 aged 62 years 11 months and 16 days

Here Stanwix chief and brave defender sleeps

And the side for his wife:

Catherine van Schaick wife of Peter Gansevoort Jr. Died Dec. 30 1830 aged 78 years 4 months and 14 days [I think]

[panmikola]

Artist: The Gansevoort Limner (American, 1730-1745)

[postcardaday]

Resturant Florent 69 Gansevoort Street Open 24 hours / 7 days

[featheredstudies]

2023.12.18 // 15:26 back to visiting my favorite regional coffeeshop chain over break!

pic: gansevoort beach, manhattan, n.y.

[whencyclopedia]

Herman Melville

Herman Melville (1819 – 1891) was a 19th-century American author of novels, short stories and poetry. He is best known for his novel Moby Dick, published in 1851, and his short stories Bartleby the Scrivner and Billy Budd, Sailor. Despite his early successes as a novelist, Melville died in 1891 in relative obscurity.

Early Life

Herman Melville, the third oldest of eight children, was born on August 1, 1819 in New York City. His paternal and maternal grandfathers were both Revolutionary War heroes — a point of pride in the Melville household. His father, Allan Melvill (the “e” would be added in the 1830s) looked proudly on his family’s heritage, tracing it to the Scottish Renaissance. Melville’s mother, Maria Gansevoort, was of Dutch descent. The young Melville spent his youth living in luxury. His father was a dry-goods merchant who tended to live beyond his means. He alternated between enthusiasm for the future of business in America and the fear of a recession. This nagging fear caused him to borrow money from his wife’s family. In 1832 Allan Melvill fell ill and died in a delirium, leaving his family heavily in debt and dependent on Maria’s family for financial help.

At the age of twelve Melville left school and began working a number of menial jobs: clerking at a bank and later at his brother Gansevoort’s fur-cap store. In 1837 he moved to Pittsfield, Massachusetts to run his Uncle Thomas Melville’s farm. Thomas had gone west seeking greener pastures in Galena, Illinois — pastures he would never find. At the age of 18 and unemployed, Melville briefly taught in a country school near Pittsfield. The following spring he took a course in surveying and engineering at the Lansingburgh Academy in Albany, but the Panic of 1837 left him without work. Unemployed at the age of 20, and following the example of one of his cousins, he signed on as a cabin boy on a ship bound for Liverpool – an experience he would recount in his novel Redburn.

After returning home aboard the St. Lawrence, Melville again failed to find employment. Seeking further adventure, and possible employment, in June of 1840, he and his friend Eli Fly headed west to Galena where Uncle Thomas proved to be of no help. They travelled down the Mississippi to the Ohio River and then eastward back to New York. In January of 1841, at the age of 21, Melville took “desperate measures” and signed on with the Acushnet, a whaler out of New Bedford, bound for the South Seas. Melville would be gone for almost four years. It was a time that he considered as an education. It would provide him with enough experiences for four relatively successful novels and one not so successful.

Herman Melville, c. 1846

Asa Weston Twitchell (Public Domain)

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[scopophilic1997]

scopOphilic_documentary_110 - scopOphilic1997 presents a new micro-messaging series: small, subtle, and often unintentional messages we send and receive verbally and non-verbally.

Memories of places in the past (former gay-lgbtq+ bars/clubs/restaurant) (L-R, T-B): Florent (Gansevoort Street - Meat Packing District), Stonewall (original location/entrance - Christopher Street - West Village), The Monster (Grove Street - West Village), & The Roxy/10-18 (West 18th Street - Chelsea)

[yesterdayandkarma]

Lara Gansevoort 4 by Gabriel Rodes

[nyandreasphotography]

Gansevoort Hotel ^2 - West Village, New York City by Andreas Komodromos