More MISCELLANY

Welcome back to our never-ending supply of miscellaneous items that might not qualify as full-fledged posts, but still are too choice to let pass by. 

We begin with some snowy photos. The occasion was the blizzard of 1947, which dropped 25.8 inches of snow on the city on December 26th.

The Tudor City photos taken at the time were pre-UN renovation, thus they showed the 42nd Street tunnel, the ramps, and Whelan Drugs on the corner. None of them would make the cut in the coming years. 

Sledding on 41st Street.

 

The Manor and No. 45 as seen from No. 25.

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Governor of New York Kathy Hochul has a glass of wine in the Tudor City Steakhouse, joined by her spouse, William Hochul, and Mirso Lekic, the restaurant's owner.  

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This evocative portrait taken on the Tudor City Bridge features Ruby Lynn Reyner, a figure of Downtown New York in the '70s and '80s, who was famed as a performer with the Playhouse of the Ridiculous. She was on a photo shoot in Tudor City, date unknown.  

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It has come to our attention that the Manhattan Ventilation Building does have signage after all: on a fence outside it reads QUEENS-MIDTOWN TUNNEL, above. Which although true, it doesn't come close to explaining what the building does. For the answer, see our earlier post.