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    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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    GRAHAM PLACE, Morris Park

    by Kevin Walsh May 23, 2022
    by Kevin Walsh May 23, 2022 4 comments

    WITHOUT a doubt, one of the most obscure alleys in the Bronx, with the exception of Garden Place in Wakefield, can be found in Morris Park. Many passersby who live…

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    RACHEL LANE, Lower East Side

    by Kevin Walsh May 21, 2022
    by Kevin Walsh May 21, 2022 11 comments

    In no other Manhattan neighborhood has the street map changed more greatly over the decades than the Lower East Side, more specifically the easternmost section known as Corlears Hook, where…

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    ST. JOHN’S LANE, Tribeca

    by Kevin Walsh April 18, 2022
    by Kevin Walsh April 18, 2022 3 comments

    THE ceramic plaque at the Canal Street station on the #1 train, the 7th Avenue line, depicts a church with a towering spire, flanked by ample vegetation. Neither the church that…

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    MILL ROAD 2022, Bath Beach

    by Kevin Walsh April 5, 2022
    by Kevin Walsh April 5, 2022 1 comment

    In April 2022 I went to see an old friend in Bath Beach, way down in southern Brooklyn. No, it wasn’t somebody I knew from work or school, it was…

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    RYDERS ALLEY, Seaport

    by Kevin Walsh March 30, 2022
    by Kevin Walsh March 30, 2022 2 comments

    In February 2022 I was hesitantly picking my way down Fulton and Gold Streets in the Seaport area, bracing against the icy winds and periodically dabbing tears from my eyes.…

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    FRANKLIN PLACE 2022

    by Kevin Walsh January 25, 2022
    by Kevin Walsh January 25, 2022 9 comments

    WHAT a difference 6 years make. In March 2015 I was picking my way through Tribeca at the end of a considerably cold winter, by far the coldest in recent…

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    ELK STREET, City Hall

    by Kevin Walsh December 12, 2021
    by Kevin Walsh December 12, 2021 13 comments

    As mentioned on a recent post, on a sparkling December Saturday (quite unlike the following one during which I’m writing this) I decided to walk Chambers Street then across the…

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    GROVE COURT, Greenwich Village

    by Kevin Walsh November 20, 2021
    by Kevin Walsh November 20, 2021 3 comments

    GROVE Court in the Village can be found in a bend in Grove Street between Bedford and Hudson Streets. In fact if you look at a street map you will…

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    STANDARD LANE, Long Island City

    by Kevin Walsh September 28, 2021
    by Kevin Walsh September 28, 2021 4 comments

    QUITE possibly the shortest named street in Queens can be found issuing from Northern Boulevard at 37th Avenue, dead ending at the Sunnyside rail yards after just a few feet.…

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    KLEUPFEL COURT, Ridgewood

    by Kevin Walsh July 6, 2021
    by Kevin Walsh July 6, 2021 8 comments

    I was recently wandering around in Ridgewood for the first time in several months with the intent of getting new photos of its obscurities, which are numerous: I’ll enumerate them…

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    THEATRE ALLEY, City Hall

    by Kevin Walsh June 29, 2021
    by Kevin Walsh June 29, 2021 1 comment

    WHEN ambling around the area east of City Hall Park recently, I was surprised to find Theatre Alley completely open to the air and the elements, as opposed to the…

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