The Church Left on the Curb

A daily mix of stories about cities, city life, and our always evolving neighborhoods and skylines. [Curbed]( Wednesday, August 17 hot garbage [The Church Left on the Curb]( A chance trash-day encounter reveals a 170-year institutional history. Photo: Christopher Bonanos One morning last November, I was walking on East 35th Street, near Park Avenue. It was chilly, and I had my face pulled down into my scarf, casting my eyes toward the pavement. A piece of paper fluttered against my shoe, and the handwriting on it caught my gaze. It looked old, like [copperplate script](. I bent over to pick it up. As I did, I saw six or seven boxes of paper at the curb, spilling their contents. One had a plastic drink cup tucked into it, almost surely ditched there a short time earlier by a pedestrian, but the rest of the contents were relatively undisturbed. I saw some sheet music, financial records, other stuff. One box, at the center, was filled with that very old handwritten material. I saw documents bundled in reddish cardboard, tied with ribbon, including one that read SOCIETY OF THE NEW CHURCH, SIGNIFIED BY THE NEW JERUSALEM. / ANNUAL REPORT OF THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES. / 1883. There was a lot more, too. Scrapbooks. Letters. [Continue reading »]( Want more on city life, real estate, and design? [Subscribe now]( for unlimited access to Curbed and everything New York. [Learn more about RevenueStripe...]( The Latest 1. [Did a Retouched Architectural Digest Photo Cover Up Stolen Relics? Now you see the Cambodian antiquities; now you don’t.]( By Diana Budds 2. [Adam Neumann, Vibes Landlord Marc Andreessen backs the WeWork founder’s second coming of … something?]( By Bridget Read 3. [The Egg Wars of 1214 Fifth Avenue Residents of the Upper East Side luxury building are “terrified” of being egged.]( By Clio Chang 4. [Weed Museum Coming to Soho Welcome to the new Museum Mile.]( By Clio Chang [Learn more about RevenueStripe...]( [Read More From Curbed]( Introducing Dinner Party, a lively new evening newsletter about everything that just happened. [Sign up]( to get it every weeknight. [GET THE NEWSLETTER]( If you enjoyed reading Curbed’s daily newsletter, forward it to a friend. Or [sign up for our Design Hunting newsletter]( for a visual diary from design editor Wendy Goodman. [logo]( [facebook logo]( [instagram logo]( [twitter logo]( [unsubscribe](param=curbed) | [privacy notice]( | [update preferences]( This email was sent to {EMAIL}. Was this email forwarded to you? [Sign up now]( to get this newsletter in your inbox. [View this email in your browser.]( You received this email because you have a subscription to New York. Reach the right online audience with us For advertising information on email newsletters, please contact AdOps@nymag.com Vox Media, LLC 1201 Connecticut Ave. NW, 12th Floor Washington, DC 20036 Copyright © 2022, All rights reserved