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    HARING AT THE HOSPITAL

    by Kevin Walsh August 9, 2025
    by Kevin Walsh August 9, 2025 3 comments

    MANY of New York’s famous artists were born elsewhere and came to this city because it offers the biggest audience and market for creative expression. Keith Haring moved from Pennsylvania…

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    GOWANUS WATERFRONT PARK

    by Kevin Walsh August 8, 2025
    by Kevin Walsh August 8, 2025 4 comments

    BACK in June I took a walk in Carroll Gardens and Gowanus; I may do a post on the walk, or release the photos in dribs and drabs, depending on…

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    JEFFERSON PARK

    by Kevin Walsh August 2, 2025
    by Kevin Walsh August 2, 2025 7 comments

    FOLLOWING up on John Jay Park, 33 blocks to the north on the East River shoreline is another park named after a Founding Father, carved out of the street grid…

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    BATTERY PARK’S DECO FLAGPOLE

    by Kevin Walsh July 31, 2025
    by Kevin Walsh July 31, 2025 3 comments

    YOU don’t see a lot of lengthy inscriptions in Dutch in NYC. There are street names, or perhaps slogans on borough flags (Brooklyn’s is “Eendracht maakt macht,” which translates to…

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    MANHATTAN’S LOST MANHATTAN STREETS

    by Kevin Walsh July 28, 2025
    by Kevin Walsh July 28, 2025 6 comments

    MANHATTAN boasts a Manhattan Avenue on the Upper West Side, which runs from West 100th Street one block west of Central Park West north past Morningside Park to West 124th…

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    JOHN JAY PARK

    by Kevin Walsh July 26, 2025
    by Kevin Walsh July 26, 2025 4 comments

    In contrast to the Upper West Side, which has a continuous waterfront park on the Hudson River stretching from 59th to 125th Streets, the shoreline of the Upper East Side…

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    YORKVILLE GLOCKENSPIEL

    by Kevin Walsh July 9, 2025
    by Kevin Walsh July 9, 2025 3 comments

    At the northwest corner of York Avenue and East 83rd Street is an unassuming 19th-century walkup with a realistic mural depicting a glockenspiel. Titled Glockenspiel, it honors the German community…

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    BROOKLYN-QUEENS BORDER CENTENNIAL

    by Kevin Walsh July 3, 2025
    by Kevin Walsh July 3, 2025 10 comments

    No one is really celebrating it, but on the eve of the nation’s 249th anniversary, I’d like to mention another anniversary: the redrawing of the Brooklyn-Queens borderline separating present-day neighborhoods…

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    INSIDE THE RIDGEWOOD DEMOCRATIC CLUB

    by Kevin Walsh June 15, 2025
    by Kevin Walsh June 15, 2025 4 comments

    Last week I posted an item about Stier Place in Ridgewood, whose highlight is the 1916 Ridgewood Democratic Club. Sergey mentioned he has some photos from the interior… INSIDE the…

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    TAINO TOWERS

    by Kevin Walsh June 8, 2025
    by Kevin Walsh June 8, 2025 4 comments

    At the corner of 122nd Street and Third Avenue in East Harlem is a set of residential towers whose appearance stands out among its neighbors. The name, flags and murals…

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    HOLY IN HOLLIS

    by Kevin Walsh May 24, 2025
    by Kevin Walsh May 24, 2025 4 comments

    TOO often the decline in religious observance or demographic changes in neighborhoods have been documented here with churches and synagogues demolished in favor of uninspiring brick and glass residential towers.…

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    PACKARD SHOWROOM 2024, ASTORIA

    by Kevin Walsh May 18, 2025
    by Kevin Walsh May 18, 2025 1 comment

    ONE day after giving a Forgotten NY tour in Sunnyside and Astoria in which I pointed out the former Packard showroom/dealership on Northern Boulevard and 46th Street, some stuff fell…

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