The Servents Entrance

Posted by Scout on May 21st, 2009

Quick one for today: I was eating lunch in my car at 113th & Riverside when I noticed an interesting sign on this beautiful apartment building:

Next to the gate on the right side of the building is this sign: “Servants & Tradesmens Entrance,” complete with one of those great old-fashioned directional hand illustrations.

Servants? Tradesmen? I imagine it’s been quite a number of years since this sign has had any applicability for the building’s tenants, but I love that it still exists as a fading relic of a bygone era.

-SCOUT

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Arun Venkatesan

May 21, 2009 at 11:40 pm · Reply

That’s my neck of the woods! I think that is actually a building owned by Columbia University. I think there is a post about it on forgotten-NY, but I may be mistaken.