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ST. AUGUSTINE’S, Lower East Side

June 27, 2022 0 comment

GRAND STREET, Soho-Chinatown, Part 2

June 26, 2022 3 comments

EDWIN B. STIMPSON, Clinton Hill

June 25, 2022 5 comments
  • One ShotsSubways & Trains

    SPRING AHEAD, Soho

    by Kevin Walsh June 23, 2022
    by Kevin Walsh June 23, 2022 3 comments

    I had a rare foray on the #6 line running south on Lafayette Street recently and got out at Spring Street to see how one of my favorite stations is…

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  • Street Lamps

    CITY HALL TWINS

    by Kevin Walsh June 22, 2022
    by Kevin Walsh June 22, 2022 4 comments

    ALAS, I have never been able to get a decent photo of the two vintage Twinlamps that light the plaza in front of the NYC City Hall entrance; that’s because…

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  • One Shots

    13TH AVENUE and GANSEVOORT MARKET

    by Kevin Walsh June 21, 2022
    by Kevin Walsh June 21, 2022 3 comments

    THE former West Washington Market was enclosed in ten two-story-tall red brick and terra cotta buildings, completed in 1889, set on four streets and one avenue. In 1939, the WPA…

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  • FNY CROSSTOWN

    GRAND STREET, Soho-Chinatown, Part 1

    by Kevin Walsh June 19, 2022
    by Kevin Walsh June 19, 2022 3 comments

    In the late winters and springs of 2022 I found I was walking through Soho and its bordering neighborhoods, Chinatown and the Lower East Side. Already, I have assembled pages…

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  • Neighborhoods

    CAROUSEL FOR ALL CHILDREN, Willowbrook Park

    by Kevin Walsh June 16, 2022
    by Kevin Walsh June 16, 2022 3 comments

    I fancy myself something of a connoisseur of carousels. Whenever I know one is around wherever I happen to be, I seek it out. I admire the calliope music (fie…

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  • You'd Never Believe You're in NYC

    WILLOWBROOK PARK

    by Kevin Walsh June 15, 2022
    by Kevin Walsh June 15, 2022 3 comments

    MENTION “Willowbrook” to anyone over 50, and the groundbreaking reports aired by reporter Geraldo Rivera in 1972 during his stint at WABC-TV, uncovering the brutal conditions inflicted on patients at…

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  • One ShotsStreet Lamps

    BROOKLYN’S OLDEST CROOK

    by Kevin Walsh June 14, 2022
    by Kevin Walsh June 14, 2022 3 comments

    PASSING by Court and Remsen Street always stirs up some feelings of reminiscence for me because between 1975 and 1980, I passed the corner thousands of times as a student…

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  • Street Lamps

    NYC’S LOST GASLAMPS

    by Kevin Walsh June 13, 2022
    by Kevin Walsh June 13, 2022 8 comments

    WHAT could be one of the two last gaslight posts on public Manhattan streets can be found here, at Broadway and West 211th Street. The other one is on Patchin…

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  • Street Necrology

    LOST STREETS OF THE EAST

    by Kevin Walsh June 12, 2022
    by Kevin Walsh June 12, 2022 7 comments

    THERE are some spots in Manhattan in which entire blocks of streets have been lost in the name of urban renewal or urban planning. One such area was a warren…

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  • One Shots

    STOPLIGHT VARIATIONS, 9th Avenue

    by Kevin Walsh June 9, 2022
    by Kevin Walsh June 9, 2022 3 comments

    I think my favorite Forgotten NY posts are the ones where I get to talk specifically about NYC infrastructure, most of it managed by the Department of Transportation or Metropolitan…

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  • Alleys

    HARRISON ALLEY, Vinegar Hill

    by Kevin Walsh June 8, 2022
    by Kevin Walsh June 8, 2022 3 comments

    As Forgotten New York documents in the Street Necrology of Downtown Brooklyn, the realms of Brooklyn Heights, DUMBO and Vinegar Hill used to be crawling with narrow alleys, that were…

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  • Forgotten Slices

    NEW PARK ON EAST 4TH

    by Kevin Walsh June 7, 2022
    by Kevin Walsh June 7, 2022 2 comments

    By SERGEY KADINSKYForgotten New York correspondent THROUGHOUT this city there are examples of interagency cooperation as one public authority hands over its property to another. In the Bronx, the route…

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