Gargoyles of Union Square & Environs Slideshow Presentation
Architecture -- History -- Interesting Pictures & Stories
"They see us but we don't see them"

The slideshow follows the gargoyles that take us from one location to the next location (slide).
This slideshow includes interesting pictures & stories that brings the neighborhood's history to life
plus photographs of numerous gargoyles & caryatids along with other ornamentations.

You will find out about:

• A dozen building in the Union Square neighborhood with gargoyles including:
  one with an unusual ram's head gargoyle over its entrance & more sheepshead gargoyles on top along with
  a building with several snake gargoyles & lets not forget the building with six enticing caryatids and much more.
• Where Tammany Hall was and a little about its history.
• About Union Square and its history
• Many of Union Square's historically styled office buildings were built at the turn of the 20th century, & are still proudly displaying their gargoyles. These are the buildings that mark Union Square's transformation from a well to do "Manhattan's Four Squares" neighborhood, into a thriving commercial & retail district, that also became a site famous for its parades, demonstrations & speech-making advocating workers rights & women's rights. Unions, socialist, Communist and the IWW all found a place to make their voices heard here.
• The Part 2 of the Union Square slideshow focuses on Union Square's theaterical era, when it was a well known theater district
  called the Rialto - with dozens of theaters located throughout the area.

The slideshows were created by Alfred Pommer a college graduate, an author, a native New Yorker, and an informative,  licensed New York City Guide, with over 30 years experience researching, creating and leading walking tours in Manhattan's many diverse neighborhoods.

These are links to Alfred Pommer's author page at: amazon.com & at: goodreads for information
about 4 Manhattan neighborhood walking tour guide books authored by Alfred Pommer
& published by The History Press (Arcadia Publishing)

Publisher needed for new nonfiction neighborhood walking tour guide books.

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All photographs on this web site are by Alfred Pommer
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