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    McHALE’S, Midtown

    by Kevin Walsh September 28, 2022
    by Kevin Walsh September 28, 2022 3 comments

    I’m unsure if McHale’s Bar & Grill, #251 West 51st Street, has anything to do with the classic McHale’s, formerly at the NE corner of 8th Avenue and West 46th…

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    HERCULES SEATING, Downtown

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

    A sidewalk sign featuring metallic lettering for Hercules Seating can still be found above #25 Park Place downtown, just east of Church Street. As Ephemeral NY points out, the building…

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    RICKARD’S, Astoria

    by Kevin Walsh September 14, 2022
    by Kevin Walsh September 14, 2022 4 comments

    Photo courtesy: Thomas Rinaldi, Facebook Cricket Wireless recently moved out of 30-29 Steinway Street in Astoria, a hop, skip and jump away from my former haunts at the Quinn Funeral…

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    GAŠPAR’S DELI, Astoria

    by Kevin Walsh September 6, 2022
    by Kevin Walsh September 6, 2022 3 comments

    WHILE in Astoria on a partly sunny Sunday, I found a pair of plastic-lettered signs on the corner of 44th Street and 25th Avenue for Gašpar’s Deli. First of all,…

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    UNIQUE SIGN, Greenwich Village

    by Kevin Walsh August 24, 2022
    by Kevin Walsh August 24, 2022 5 comments

    I have something of a fascination for St. Luke’s Place in Greenwich Village, as it has a unique west to east street numbering scheme and is one of the few…

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    GOODBYE, CUBBERLY, New Dorp

    by Kevin Walsh August 18, 2022
    by Kevin Walsh August 18, 2022 6 comments

    I always love it when I can uncover ancient street signage. One such sign is, or was until recently, right here on Oakley and Cubberly Places. It was a true…

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    TRENTON’S ANCIENT STREET SIGNS

    by Kevin Walsh August 16, 2022
    by Kevin Walsh August 16, 2022 7 comments

    My visits to New Jersey have been sporadic. For 30 years, on occasion, I have spent a lot of time in Hoboken and even worked there for a year in…

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    MOUNT EVEREST WAY, Jackson Heights

    by Kevin Walsh July 28, 2022
    by Kevin Walsh July 28, 2022 1 comment

    MOUNT Everest is the tallest mountain in the world at just over 29000 feet (about 8849 meters) and sits on the border of China and Nepal, the mountain George Mallory…

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    TRANSIT AUTHORITY LOGO

    by Kevin Walsh July 13, 2022
    by Kevin Walsh July 13, 2022 6 comments

    So there I was, idling on a wicker seat on a 1910s BMT B-Type “Standard” subway car making its way down the Q line from 96th Street to Coney Island…

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    SUNNYSIDE NAMES

    by Kevin Walsh June 29, 2022
    by Kevin Walsh June 29, 2022 2 comments

    I’LL admit it. I’d like to get my name on an honorific New York City street sign. However, if I do I’ll never be able to see it because the…

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    S&H GREEN STAMPS, Kensington

    by Kevin Walsh June 1, 2022
    by Kevin Walsh June 1, 2022 11 comments

    S&H, which stood for the Sperry Hutchinson Company founded in 1896 by Thomas Sperry and Shelly B. Hutchinson, was the most prominent “rewards program” in which stamps were given out…

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    J.G. MELON, Upper East Side

    by Kevin Walsh May 27, 2022
    by Kevin Walsh May 27, 2022 4 comments

    J.G. Melon, a tavern at 3rd Avenue and East 74th Street, is hardly Forgotten, as it is famed far and wide for its burger as so many taverns in the…

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