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On a gorgeous Saturday, June 2, 2012, ForgottenTour 54 met at Broadway and Wall Street and explored Trinity Cemetery and the entire length of Wall Street, finishing at South Street Seaport. Highlights among the 40 stops on the tour … The first mention of this space as a burial ground was in 1673, over [...]
Categorized in: Tours Tagged with: Financial District Manhattan Wall Street
PHOTOS AND DESCRIPTIONS BY GARY FONVILLE, FNY corrrespondent There are many two- level stations in the NYC subway system. However, this is one where express trains are on one level and local ones are on the other: the Nostrand Avenue station at Fulton Street, Brooklyn. However: At Bergen Street on the ‘F’ the locals are on the upper [...]
Categorized in: Subways & Trains Tagged with: Bronx Brooklyn Manhattan Queens Wall Street
While recuperating from heart surgery in June 2009 I was curious about the brand-new South Ferry station at the south end of the IRT #1 train — the first new station to open in NYC since 1989. Traveling downtown to see it I also remembered that I hadn’t seen the changes that had recently been made [...]
Categorized in: Subways & Trains Tagged with: Manhattan South Ferry Wall Street
