A standard tenement entrance on Easts 125th Street:

Notice the cast iron pillar on the right, and the foundry advertising on the pillar’s base:

The address is not one we’d use today:

106 ST ER NY

But the meaning is clear: 106th Street at the East River.

Today the FDR has wiped out any waterside industry that relied on shipping to bring iron, coal, and more.

Housing Lottery

A lottery has opened up for apartments in a new building on East 125th Street, just east of 3rd Avenue (the building spans between 125th and 124th Streets.

The Reserve is a 12-story mixed-use building at 212 East 125th Street in East Harlem, Manhattan. The apartment building has 45 residences. You can apply for 34 of them on NYC Housing Connect.