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HARLEM COURTHOUSE

December 4, 2019 1 comment

3rd AVENUE AD MYSTERIES

December 1, 2019 4 comments

NYC’s TRAFFIC CIRCLES, PART 2

November 30, 2019 1 comment
  • One ShotsSubways & Trains

    OLD PENN STATION IN VIEW

    by Kevin Walsh November 30, 2019
    by Kevin Walsh November 30, 2019 2 comments

    Some of the original Penn Station has been in view from the south end of the southbound local IRT station serving the #1 train, as a passageway constructed (likely by…

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  • One Shots

    GRISTEDE’S, Harlem, 1940

    by Kevin Walsh November 27, 2019
    by Kevin Walsh November 27, 2019 6 comments

    I was riffling through Municipal Archives 1940 Manhattan photos on 3rd Avenue recently (I do it so you don’t have to) when I happened upon a photo of this Gristede’s…

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    GUNHILL ROAD, Williamsbridge

    by Kevin Walsh November 25, 2019
    by Kevin Walsh November 25, 2019 8 comments

    By SERGEY KADINSKYForgotten NY correspondent One does not need to wear a bulletproof vest to travel on Gun Hill Road, the 3.4-mile north Bronx road running between Mosholu Parkway to…

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    FUTURE OBSOLESCENCE, Flatbush

    by Kevin Walsh November 25, 2019
    by Kevin Walsh November 25, 2019 5 comments

    by GARY FONVILLEForgotten NY correspondent This may be the first of a kind for FNY.  Kevin Walsh and I have taken an untold number of pictures of signs that represented businesses that no…

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  • Street Scenes

    NYC’s TRAFFIC CIRCLES

    by Kevin Walsh November 23, 2019
    by Kevin Walsh November 23, 2019 33 comments

    I was puttering around up in Melrose, Bronx a week or two ago and I spotted a true roundabout, in the British sense. I’ll tell you where it was a…

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  • One ShotsSignsSubways & Trains

    138th STREET STATION, Mott Haven

    by Kevin Walsh November 23, 2019
    by Kevin Walsh November 23, 2019 3 comments

    From Ossie McGennie in the Facebook New York’s Railroads, Subways & Trolleys Past & Present group (hence the watermark) comes this extraordinary glimpse into the past at the 138th Street/Grand…

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  • One ShotsStreet Lamps

    PIER 57, Chelsea

    by Kevin Walsh November 21, 2019
    by Kevin Walsh November 21, 2019 3 comments

    Pier 57 is a handsome steel and masonry structure at 10th Avenue and West 15th Street, constructed from 1950-54 as a headhouse for shipping lines. The structure is supported on…

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    SCRIBNER’S, Hell’s Kitchen

    by Kevin Walsh November 19, 2019
    by Kevin Walsh November 19, 2019 0 comment

    Strolling down 9th Avenue after work during the summer, high above 9th Avenue and W. 44th I spotted a faded sign: “Scribner’s.” It’s atop a brick building at 311 W. 43rd Street that…

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  • Neighborhoods

    A LOOK AT MELROSE COMMONS

    by Kevin Walsh November 17, 2019
    by Kevin Walsh November 17, 2019 0 comment

    By SERGEY KADINSKYForgotten NY correspondent In October 2018 a new park was completed in the center of the Melrose neighborhood in the South Bronx. Previously known as Block 2381 Lot…

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  • One ShotsSigns

    MARINE BOILER & WELDING, Crotona Park

    by Kevin Walsh November 16, 2019
    by Kevin Walsh November 16, 2019 2 comments

    Wedged between the Sheridan Expressway and the Bronx River north of Westchester Avenue is Marine Boiler and Welding, which attracts views from the (sparser than usual for NYC expressways) Sheridan…

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  • One ShotsSigns

    HUGH CAREY TUNNEL SIGN, Financial District

    by Kevin Walsh November 14, 2019
    by Kevin Walsh November 14, 2019 6 comments

    Hugh L. Carey (1919-2011) was the formidably sideburned NY State Governor from 1975 to 1982; before that, the World War II veteran served as a US Representative from NY State…

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  • Forgotten Slices

    ROCKAWAY WAR MEMORIALS

    by Kevin Walsh November 11, 2019
    by Kevin Walsh November 11, 2019 10 comments

    Two war veterans’ monuments, erected in 1927 and 1989, face each other across Rockaway Beach Boulevard between Beach 94th and 95th Streets on the peninsula. One of a number of…

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