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February 2013

  • Forgotten Slices

    BROADWAY and ISHAM STREETS, Inwood

    by Kevin Walsh February 28, 2013
    by Kevin Walsh February 28, 2013 29 comments

    While meandering aimlessly in upper Manhattan in February 2013 I came upon a single intersection, Broadway and Isham Street, where there are several leftover relicts from several different ages that…

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  • One Shots

    CITY ISLAND find

    by Kevin Walsh February 26, 2013
    by Kevin Walsh February 26, 2013 12 comments

    While puttering around in Pelham Cemetery in City Island last May on ForgottenTour #53, we found a human skull. Apropos. Anything can happen on a ForgottenTour.®. The fun begins in…

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  • One ShotsSigns

    CHRISTOPHER STREET SIGNAGE

    by Kevin Walsh February 26, 2013
    by Kevin Walsh February 26, 2013 1 comment

    A plastic-letter classic. Wish I knew the manufacturer of these. 2/26/13

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  • Forgotten SlicesStreet Lamps

    FAREWELL TO a 5th AVENUE TWINLAMP

    by Kevin Walsh February 25, 2013
    by Kevin Walsh February 25, 2013 5 comments

    I regret to mention that one of 5th Avenue‘s last original Twin lampposts, on the SW corner of 5th and West 32nd Street, has been removed and replaced with a…

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  • Street Scenes

    10th, 11th and 12th STREETS, Village/Union Square

    by Kevin Walsh February 24, 2013
    by Kevin Walsh February 24, 2013 12 comments

    Are 10th, 11th and 12th Streets, on either side of 5th Avenue, in Greenwich Village? The East Village? The Union Square area? I can’t tell. I was scuttling furtively around…

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  • Forgotten SlicesStreet Lamps

    SOUTH STREET SEAPORT LAMPPOSTS

    by Kevin Walsh February 22, 2013
    by Kevin Walsh February 22, 2013 3 comments

    When the Rouse Company remade the South Street Seaport area between 1981-1983, rehabilitating buildings, adding new buildings, and opening the tourist-friendly Pier 17 (where I still get tuna and pasta…

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  • One Shots

    PS 15, Eastchester

    by Kevin Walsh February 21, 2013
    by Kevin Walsh February 21, 2013 28 comments

    Bronx’ own Little Red Schoolhouse, PS 15, is at 4010 Dyre Avenue, near the end of the line on the #5 train. The architectural gem was built in 1877, designed…

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  • Out of TownSigns

    GREEN LANTERN, Hunters Point

    by Kevin Walsh February 20, 2013
    by Kevin Walsh February 20, 2013 16 comments

    Walk past most police precincts in New York City, and you will notice that almost inevitably the entrances are lit by a pair of lamps mounted on each side of…

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  • One ShotsSigns

    2nd STREET, Hunters Point

    by Kevin Walsh February 19, 2013
    by Kevin Walsh February 19, 2013 6 comments

    Queens recently lost another of its classic white and blue street signs, that had been a staple between 1964 and about 1985, only to be replaced by federally mandated green…

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  • Forgotten SlicesSigns

    AVENUE G, Flatbush

    by Kevin Walsh February 19, 2013
    by Kevin Walsh February 19, 2013 10 comments

    It’s no secret that both Brooklyn’s and Queens’ street numbering and naming systems are a bit of a mess, confusing out- of-towners and residents alike. Brooklyn has several sets of…

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  • NeighborhoodsWalks

    SOUTH PARK: Brooklyn south of Prospect

    by Kevin Walsh February 17, 2013
    by Kevin Walsh February 17, 2013 30 comments

    Prepare to gape in awe when walking any street between Albemarle and Beverley Roads and Stratford Road and East 19th Street. You’ll find huge Victorian mansions of every conceivable size, color…

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  • One ShotsSigns

    KENTILE, Park Slope

    by Kevin Walsh February 15, 2013
    by Kevin Walsh February 15, 2013 3 comments

    The massive Kentile Floors neon sign, built to attract business from the passing IND trains on the viaduct, looms over 9th Street near the Gowanus Canal. It is one of a…

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