1930 postcard of the West Side Highway, via Ephemeral NY, which is another one of those great “weird old creepy things you didn’t know about nyc and old photos and morbid things about diseases and tenements and cool shit like that” blogs. Also, “ephemeral” is definitely one of those words I read once on a fourth grade vocabulary list (YES, okay, I was in super-nerd ‘advanced’ fourth grade and we had ‘challenge’ words like ‘ephemeral’) and decided that I really liked it.

1930 postcard of the West Side Highway, via Ephemeral NY, which is another one of those great “weird old creepy things you didn’t know about nyc and old photos and morbid things about diseases and tenements and cool shit like that” blogs. Also, “ephemeral” is definitely one of those words I read once on a fourth grade vocabulary list (YES, okay, I was in super-nerd ‘advanced’ fourth grade and we had ‘challenge’ words like ‘ephemeral’) and decided that I really liked it.

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