{"id":15820,"date":"2026-10-11T00:01:49","date_gmt":"2026-10-11T04:01:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/?p=15820"},"modified":"2026-10-10T22:49:24","modified_gmt":"2026-10-11T02:49:24","slug":"west-48th","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/2026\/10\/west-48th\/","title":{"rendered":"West 48th"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_15821\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-15821\" style=\"width: 802px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/ric199f2-NYC-man-hat.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-15821\" src=\"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/ric199f2-NYC-man-hat.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"802\" height=\"1100\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-15821\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">West 48th, August 1979<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<div>\n<div>\n<p dir=\"auto\">Q; hey Grok, can you tell me the location of this photo in NYC?<\/p>\n<p>A: West 48th Street in Midtown Manhattan (Theater District \/ near Times Square), New York City.<\/p>\n<p>The street sign in the upper right of the frame clearly reads \u201cW 48 ST\u201d (with a bike-lane sign below it), along with the typical NYC regulatory signs for a tow-away zone and clear fire lane. The surrounding scene\u2014dense midtown buildings, busy sidewalk, classic Coca-Cola \u201cEnjoy\u201d storefront sign, vertical projecting \u201cCAST\u201d sign, and the overall streetscape\u2014places it squarely in the West 48th Street corridor between roughly 6th\/7th Avenues and Broadway, the heart of the Theater District.<\/p>\n<p>The black-and-white film look (plus the clothing, car, and overall feel) suggests a mid-to-late 20th-century shot, but the location markers are unambiguous.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Q; hey Grok, can you tell me the location of this photo in NYC? A: West 48th Street in Midtown Manhattan (Theater District \/ near Times Square), New York City. The street sign in the upper right of the frame clearly reads \u201cW 48 ST\u201d (with a bike-lane sign below it), along with the typical &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/2026\/10\/west-48th\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;West 48th&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[91,46],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15820","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-91","category-city"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15820"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15820"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15820\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15822,"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15820\/revisions\/15822"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15820"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15820"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15820"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}