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    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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    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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    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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    6th AVENUE’S COUNTRY MEDALLIONS

    by Kevin Walsh December 3, 2002
    by Kevin Walsh December 3, 2002 8 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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    THROWIN’ EM A CURVE. Lamppost designs at the dawn of the modern era.

    by Kevin Walsh July 17, 2002
    by Kevin Walsh July 17, 2002 0 comment

      It’s 1950 and on Third Avenue, the el trains rumbling overhead, like the Triceratops and Tyrannosaurs of the Cretaceous, are blissfully unmindful of their upcoming doom. The shrews, rats…

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    HOW TO FRAME A CROOK. How the Department of Transportation defaced classic cast iron poles in the 1980s.

    by Kevin Walsh August 1, 2001
    by Kevin Walsh August 1, 2001 0 comment

    Before the days when the New York City Department of Transportation began to install replicas of classic bishop-crook, “Corvington” long-armed lamps and twinlamp designs, they defaced still-standing classic lampposts that were…

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