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  • One Shots

    TOMPKINS TEMPERANCE

    by Kevin Walsh May 12, 2025
    by Kevin Walsh May 12, 2025 3 comments

    SEEN here on a Forgotten NY tour in 2018, The Tompkins Square Temperance Monument, erected in 1891, was a gift from a San Francisco dentist and temperance activist, Henry Cogswell (1820-1900).…

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    A. STEINHARDT BROTHERS, UNION SQUARE

    by Kevin Walsh May 11, 2025
    by Kevin Walsh May 11, 2025 0 comment

    I am, or was, frequently on the block of East 18th between Broadway and Park Avenue South, just north of Union Square. Though I haven’t been in lately, I’ve been…

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  • Forgotten Slices

    MARIA HERNANDEZ PARK

    by Kevin Walsh May 10, 2025
    by Kevin Walsh May 10, 2025 9 comments

    In the heart of Bushwick is a green superblock named in honor of Maria Hernandez, a neighborhood activist who lived across from the park on Starr Street. It is a…

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  • One Shots

    BICKFORDS 2025

    by Kevin Walsh May 8, 2025
    by Kevin Walsh May 8, 2025 3 comments

    DON’T let the glassy exterior of the building on the NE corner of Lexington Avenue and East 45th fool you…this building, now home to Midtown Comics on the second floor,…

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  • Alleys

    BARNELL STREET, RED HOOK

    by Kevin Walsh May 7, 2025
    by Kevin Walsh May 7, 2025 3 comments

    HOW does one explain Barnell Street, which seems to have popped up organically on Red Hook street maps including Google over the past couple of decades? The city doesn’t grace…

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  • Subways & Trains

    BRONX METRO NORTH

    by Kevin Walsh May 6, 2025
    by Kevin Walsh May 6, 2025 7 comments

    In the “stuff that I probably won’t see happen” file, today I decided to reprint one of two articles I wrote for Gothamist in 2019, this one co-bylined with Neil…

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  • Subways & Trains

    BMT SUBSTATION, EAST WILLIAMSBURG

    by Kevin Walsh May 5, 2025
    by Kevin Walsh May 5, 2025 4 comments

    In an earlier era of subway construction, the bulk of what is now called the L train was constructed between 1916 and 1924, an eight-year period, by an privately-owned entity…

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  • Forgotten Slices

    GOULD MEMORIAL LIBRARY

    by Kevin Walsh May 3, 2025
    by Kevin Walsh May 3, 2025 14 comments

    I have admired the Bronx Community College campus in University Heights for a long time but avoided photography there after an admonition by a security guard several years ago; fortunately,…

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  • Subways & Trains

    CORTLANDT STREET MOSAIC

    by Kevin Walsh May 1, 2025
    by Kevin Walsh May 1, 2025 8 comments

    FOR some reason, I failed to include this in the recent online zoom chat I gave regarding mosaic subway art. I’m unsure whether to post the rest in Forgotten NY,…

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  • Forgotten Slices

    HILLSIDE AVENUE 1931

    by Kevin Walsh April 30, 2025
    by Kevin Walsh April 30, 2025 6 comments

    If anything, in 1931 Winchester Boulevard was a bit more developed than Hillside Avenue out in Hollis Hills. Both were dirt roads that got muddy in a hurry after the…

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  • One Shots

    METHODIST BOOK CONCERN, MADISON SQUARE

    by Kevin Walsh April 29, 2025
    by Kevin Walsh April 29, 2025 8 comments

    I didn’t realize it at the time, since the ground floor had been corrupted and “modernized” while I was working there, but 150 5th Avenue at W. 20th Street is…

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    MACMILLAN ENTRANCE, 5TH AVENUE

    by Kevin Walsh April 28, 2025
    by Kevin Walsh April 28, 2025 2 comments

    YOGI Berra said it best, as he often did: “You can observe a lot by looking.” I must have used that quote in FNY before, but not lately. I was…

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