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  • Forgotten Slices

    REPOST: 6th and 24th

    by Kevin Walsh September 14, 2020
    by Kevin Walsh September 14, 2020 4 comments

    I noticed that this FNY post from January 2011 hadn’t been brought over when the site was redesigned in early 2019, so I’ll repost it here… I was lurching and…

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  • One ShotsStreet Lamps

    6TH AVENUE 1955

    by Kevin Walsh January 18, 2020
    by Kevin Walsh January 18, 2020 10 comments

    On 6th Avenue looking north at West 14th Street, a changing of the lamppost guard is imminent. A brand new set of aluminum octagonal-shafted poles have just been installed, sporting…

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  • One Shots

    EMIL TALAMINI, Greenwich Village

    by Kevin Walsh October 9, 2018
    by Kevin Walsh October 9, 2018 2 comments

    I have mentioned the Emil Talamini Real Estate office painted sign on the side of the handsome Villager apartment building at 450 6th Avenue, between West 10th and 11th, before. I…

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  • Walks

    DOWN 7th AND 6th

    by Kevin Walsh December 10, 2017
    by Kevin Walsh December 10, 2017 21 comments

    It had been awhile since I had taken a walk with the camera. For me, “awhile” means a week or more, so I was itching to get back into action…

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  • Forgotten Slices

    666 6th AVENUE

    by Kevin Walsh March 15, 2012
    by Kevin Walsh March 15, 2012 19 comments

    6th Avenue between West 17th and 23rd Streets is known as the Ladies’ Mile, after the gigantic emporiums such as the Siegel-Cooper Building (now home to Bed, Bath and Beyond)…

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  • Subways & Trains

    HOLIDAY SUBWAY

    by Kevin Walsh December 18, 2011
    by Kevin Walsh December 18, 2011 21 comments

    December 2011: It happens every Christmas. A giant conifer is sacrificed for the Rockefeller Center tree-lighting featuring the pop teen of the moment; trampling crowds worshiping the God of Commerce;…

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  • Street Scenes

    Lower SIXTH AVENUE

    by Kevin Walsh September 18, 2011
    by Kevin Walsh September 18, 2011 25 comments

    There was a time in this fair city when Sixth Avenue did not run all the way south to Tribeca. In fact, for about the first century of its existence,…

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  • Forgotten Slices

    LOWER 6TH and the Jefferson Market area

    by Kevin Walsh June 21, 2011
    by Kevin Walsh June 21, 2011 0 comment

    Crazed from the heat, I recently stumbled on board a Long Island Rail Road train, staggered out in Penn Station, unconsciously swiped myself into a downtown subway, and staggered out on…

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  • Forgotten Slices

    CALLING ON OLD FRIENDS Part 1. 6th Avenue and West 24th Street

    by Kevin Walsh January 11, 2011
    by Kevin Walsh January 11, 2011 0 comment

    I was lurching and swaying up 6th Avenue on a January Sunday, bending an increasingly decrepit and deteriorating frame against the ceaseless and unending winter winds, on the way to the…

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  • AdsForgotten Slices

    CALLING ON OLD FRIENDS Part 2. 6th Avenue and West 22nd Street

    by Kevin Walsh January 11, 2011
    by Kevin Walsh January 11, 2011 0 comment

    After contemplating the presence of Koster and Bial’s “The Corner” building on 6th and 24th Streets miraculously still standing after 123 years despite the utter transformation of the rest of…

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  • Forgotten Slices

    SIX OUT THERE and getting Sixer

    by Kevin Walsh March 23, 2008
    by Kevin Walsh March 23, 2008 1 comment

    Back in 2003 I took a stroll up 6th Avenue from Tribeca up past Macy’s — it has a lot of hidden features such as the remnants of streets swallowed up when…

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  • Signs

    6th AVENUE’S COUNTRY MEDALLIONS

    by Kevin Walsh December 3, 2002
    by Kevin Walsh December 3, 2002 6 comments

    You’re not supposed to call it 6th Avenue, you know. 6th Avenue has a rather involved history. It has been extended both northward and southward and has been renamed twice! In…

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