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    ISHAM MARKER, THEN AND NOW

    by Kevin Walsh February 1, 2022
    by Kevin Walsh February 1, 2022 4 comments

    EVERY so often, I write about the Broadway mile marker that’s hiding in plain sight in the wall at Isham Park in Inwood and I point it out when Forgotten…

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  • Street Scenes

    THE DE-BROADING OF BROADWAY

    by Kevin Walsh January 30, 2022
    by Kevin Walsh January 30, 2022 17 comments

    BEFORE my purists say anything, there’s nothing “Forgotten” about Broadway; it’s the street most people think of when they think of New York City, which is sort of the premise…

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  • One ShotsSubways & Trains

    96TH STREET SIDE PLATFORM

    by Kevin Walsh June 2, 2021
    by Kevin Walsh June 2, 2021 7 comments

    96th Street is one of the Original 28 IRT subway stations that opened on October 27, 1904 between the old City Hall station and 145th Street, #1, 2, 3 trains…

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  • Street Scenes

    STREETS NAMED FOR OTHER STREETS

    by Kevin Walsh March 14, 2021
    by Kevin Walsh March 14, 2021 13 comments

    Different cities have patterns of street naming. Boston is fairly haphazard — there are five Washington Streets, repeats of other names, and very few, if any, numbered streets. Philadelphia’s major…

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  • One ShotsSignsSubways & Trains

    BROADWAY POLES

    by Kevin Walsh November 8, 2019
    by Kevin Walsh November 8, 2019 5 comments

    Since May I have spent not a little time on Broadway between Times Square and Columbus Circle for a freelance job, noticing the infrastructure. This stretch of Broadway features the…

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  • One Shots

    PEREGRINE FALCON, Upper West Side

    by Kevin Walsh September 19, 2019
    by Kevin Walsh September 19, 2019 1 comment

    The word “peregrine” originally meant “foreign or outlandish” but today, the term applies only to the peregrine falcon, the fastest bird in the world. According to the National Geographic, peregrine…

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  • Walks

    HIGHLAND PARK and RIDGEWOOD RESERVOIR

    by Kevin Walsh July 21, 2019
    by Kevin Walsh July 21, 2019 5 comments

    Before I was so rudely interrupted I was working on this page last weekend, and had it about 80% complete. I hadn’t realized, though, that my WordPress autosave wasn’t activated.…

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  • Walks

    BROADWAY AND THE BOWERY

    by Kevin Walsh July 7, 2019
    by Kevin Walsh July 7, 2019 2 comments

    I recently took a walk from Penn Station, exploring the newest and final section of the High Line that will open to the public, into Chelsea, south along 4th Avenue…

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  • Walks

    ASTORIA SWEEP Part 2

    by Kevin Walsh June 3, 2018
    by Kevin Walsh June 3, 2018 12 comments

    Continued from Part 1 On a hot day in May I set out to visit most of Astoria’s historical spots and found most of them. I began at the LIRR…

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  • One ShotsStreet Lamps

    NEW GUMBALLS, 1980-2015

    by Kevin Walsh January 31, 2018
    by Kevin Walsh January 31, 2018 6 comments

    It looks like the time has come to say sayonara to a relatively unchronicled and unappreciated genre of lampposts I call the New Gumballs because of their spherical shape and resemblance…

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  • One Shots

    IT’S ALL I EVER WANTED

    by Kevin Walsh April 4, 2012
    by Kevin Walsh April 4, 2012 2 comments

    1840s-era building, Broadway north of Canal

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  • One ShotsSigns

    FABRIC SIGN

    by Kevin Walsh March 14, 2012
    by Kevin Walsh March 14, 2012 8 comments

    To paraphrase Yogi, you can observe a lot by looking. I was walking up Broadway after getting a new tour guide license when these painted window signs for Izquierdo &…

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