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    J. MARION SIMS, FORMERLY 5TH AVENUE

    by Kevin Walsh May 16, 2019
    by Kevin Walsh May 16, 2019 2 comments

    Depending on who you speak to, there’s a wide opinion on the accomplishments and career of Dr. James Marion Sims. Dr. James Marion Sims (1813-1883) is often called the father of gynecology; he founded…

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  • One ShotsSignsStreet Lamps

    “OLIVE” POST-TOP STOPLIGHTS, 1999

    by Kevin Walsh March 12, 2019
    by Kevin Walsh March 12, 2019 2 comments

    March 2019 marks Forgotten New York’s 20th anniversary. To mark the occasion, I’ve re-scanned about 150 key images from the early days of FNY from 35MM prints. In the early…

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    SAMUEL MORSE, Central Park

    by Kevin Walsh November 27, 2018
    by Kevin Walsh November 27, 2018 1 comment

    “What hath God wrought?” With those words, the Information Age began. You know Samuel Finley Breese Morse (1791-1872) invented the telegraph and sent that first famous message in 1844 … but did you…

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  • Walks

    NORTHERN CENTRAL PARK

    by Kevin Walsh November 11, 2018
    by Kevin Walsh November 11, 2018 6 comments

    On the northern edge of Central Park,  the hills are steep, and rough hewn staircases ascend as high as a two or three story building. This part of the park…

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    THE FALCONER, Central Park

    by Kevin Walsh September 7, 2018
    by Kevin Walsh September 7, 2018 3 comments

    Domesticated birds of prey such as falcons, hawks and eagles can be trained to locate prey for human owners. Falconers train their namesake bird while austringers train hawks and eagles. Red-tailed hawks…

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  • One ShotsStreet Lamps

    CENTRAL PARK’s TYPE 8s

    by Kevin Walsh August 2, 2018
    by Kevin Walsh August 2, 2018 1 comment

    A quartet of some of NYC’s oldest lampposts of modern design can be found on The 65th Street Transverse Road, at the east and westbound separated lanes, facing 5th Avenue…

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  • One Shots

    PLAYMATES ARCH, Central Park

    by Kevin Walsh May 10, 2018
    by Kevin Walsh May 10, 2018 0 comment

    Playmates Arch, along with the Dairy, the Carousel, the Zoo and the Chess & Checkers House, is in a part of Central Park once formally designated as the Children’s District.…

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  • Tours

    RECAP: FORGOTTENTOUR #106: Northern Central Park

    by Kevin Walsh October 31, 2017
    by Kevin Walsh October 31, 2017 0 comment

    FNY had a brand new tour on July 10, 2016 concentrating on Northern Central Park, including Harlem Meer, seen above. It looks quite natural today but Harlem Meer, named for a Dutch…

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  • NeighborhoodsOne Shots

    FORT CLINTON, Central Park

    by Kevin Walsh May 18, 2017
    by Kevin Walsh May 18, 2017 0 comment

    Located deep in northern Central Park are remnants of the United Staes’ second war with Britain, the War of 1812, fought for a variety of reasons including British “impressments” of…

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  • One Shots

    WOODMAN’S GATE, Central Park

    by Kevin Walsh January 19, 2017
    by Kevin Walsh January 19, 2017 0 comment

    Central Park masterminds Frederick Olmsted and Calvert Vaux whimsically named several main park exterior openings as ‘gates’ when the park was being built in the 1860s. Running clockwise around the park…

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    SELFIE: Bertel Thorvaldsen, Central Park

    by Kevin Walsh January 16, 2017
    by Kevin Walsh January 16, 2017 0 comment

    Located in a dead-end park path just south of the 96th Street Transverse Road just off 5th Avenue, this replica of  a lifesize portrait of Danish sculptor Albert Bertel Thorvaldsen…

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  • One Shots

    BALTO, Central Park

    by Kevin Walsh October 26, 2016
    by Kevin Walsh October 26, 2016 2 comments

    Balto was a Siberian Husky who led a dogsled team carrying desperately needed diphtheria antitoxin through a blizzard to Nome, Alaska, in January 1925.  A plaque below Balto’s statue is a…

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