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So how come I’m showing some blank walls on this “one shot” page? It’s all in what used to be there. I’m at the corner of 8th Avenue and West 30th in Manhattan, in the shadow of Penn Station — a corner I found so interesting I once devoted an entire ForgottenSlice page to it. [...]
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Continued from PART 1 Continuing my trip from Straus Square on the Lower East Side to Midtown’s Penn Station… WAYFARING MAP: Seward Park to Penn Station 222 Bowery just south of Prince might look a little out of place — there are not many Queen Anne-style 1884 brick buildings on this stretch, where many [...]
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I haven’t done as many long-form specials with as many as 100 pictures per page of late. In the Age of Twitter, people are increasingly impatient with these long treatises and tend to lose interest. Also, the winter winds play havoc with my tear ducts and I frequently have tears streaking down my face when [...]
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The Far West Side (did I just name a neighborhood?) from 10th Avenue west to 12th Avenue and from the high 20s north to West 34th will be the locus of new development in the upcoming decade, as the long-planned Hudson Yards development begins to take shape on trainyards used by a variety of lines [...]
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I have always been a big fan of inter-building bridges, by which I mean bridges that connect two buildings without accessing the ground, even though I have not had the privilege of actually traversing any except one: it was a pedestrian bridge that connected the World Trade Center with the World Financial Center over West [...]
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Word came to my unbelieving ears that some younger viewers of the Grammy Awards ceremony in February 2012 were stumped when the sprightly figure of Paul McCartney appeared on their television screens. Never before had they been forced to deal with anyone quite this old, and never having heard of the Beatles or pop rock [...]
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The Cheyenne Diner began as the Market Diner at 9th Avenue and 33rd Street sometime in the early 1940s. The diner manufacturer was Paramount Modular Concepts of Oakland, NJ, in business since 1932 and one of only a handful of diner manufacturers (Diner-Mite of Atlanta, GA, De Raffele of New Rochelle, NY, and Kullman of Lebanon, NJ are among [...]
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Uncharacteristically stumped for a Slice for the midweek period I turned to a familiar corner I went past all the time when I worked in the Penn Station area between 1988-1991 and again from 2000-2004, a grungy, grimy, gritty mid-Manhattan intersection just south of Penn Station on 8th Avenue, perhaps my least favorite of all of [...]
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In early 2009, in a real estate environment that has seen home prices and rents drop precipitously and sales slow to a crawl, battle to maintain New York City’s character is still being waged, it seems, neighborhood by neighborhood and house by house. The second week of 2009 saw designations given to several buildings by the [...]
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6th Avenue in the Greeley Square area…from 29th north to 33rd… is undergoing change extremely rapid even by NYC standards, as structures from the early to mid 20th Century are quickly being razed and luxury towers, many with retail and restaurants on the ground floor, are replacing them. Sixth Avenue’s old Flower District and Sewing Machine [...]
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I’m not sure when I first visited the Cheyenne Diner — it must have been before ForgottenTour 12 in Hell’s Kitchen gathered there (left) in May 2003; it must have been while I worked at the World’s Biggest Store between April 2000 and October 2004. The Cheyenne is closing, at least in its present [...]
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Most people who have commuted into New York City from New Jersey or Long Island, or perhaps taken the train from other parts of the country like Washington, Boston, or Chicago in the past 35 years, have thought of Penn Station as the basement under the Felt Forum on 33rd Street. A large basement, with [...]
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