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    CHARLES RUEGGER, 6TH AVENUE

    by Kevin Walsh December 27, 2024
    by Kevin Walsh December 27, 2024 1 comment

    THE influence of Charles R. Ruegger can be found on 6th Avenue between West 20th and 21st Streets decades after his brief dominance. That’s what happens when you install quality…

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  • Roads

    WEST SIDE HIGHWAY, 1970s

    by Kevin Walsh August 8, 2024
    by Kevin Walsh August 8, 2024 23 comments

    THIS photo of the long-gone West Side Highway in Manhattan has been making the rounds today (it’s in Facebook’s Lost New York page) so I thought I’d wade in. Surprisingly…

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  • FNY CROSSTOWN

    28th STREET WEST TO EAST, PART ONE

    by Kevin Walsh June 9, 2024
    by Kevin Walsh June 9, 2024 7 comments

    IT’S time for another entry in FNY’s Cross Streets of NYC series! I have been walking Manhattan’s numbered streets from east to west or vice versa so compulsively the past…

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  • Walks

    DEEP SIXTH, VOLUME TWO

    by Kevin Walsh December 3, 2023
    by Kevin Walsh December 3, 2023 9 comments

    IT’S been two decades since I first walked 6th Avenue for FNY, and things have changed along the avenue in the center of Manhattan (in “The Ferrari in the Bedroom,”…

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  • Ads

    H&H CORSET, CHELSEA

    by Kevin Walsh September 5, 2023
    by Kevin Walsh September 5, 2023 3 comments

    THREE of the four corners at the busy intersection of 6th Avenue and West 14th Street have seen building teardowns in recent years, with the latest one coming n the…

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  • One Shots

    K STANDS FOR EHRICH

    by Kevin Walsh December 13, 2022
    by Kevin Walsh December 13, 2022 0 comment

    At 22nd and 6th Avenue in Chelsea, northwest corner, is the former Ehrich Brothers Emporium, constructed in 1889, and currently home to a Burlington Coat Factory on the ground floor.…

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  • One Shots

    HALF KING 2019, Chelsea

    by Kevin Walsh November 21, 2022
    by Kevin Walsh November 21, 2022 5 comments

    In 2019, I was wandering on the High Line with the other out of town tourists (on the High Line and Staten Island Ferry, English is a language you’ll hear…

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  • One Shots

    FREDERIC FLEMING HOUSE, Chelsea

    by Kevin Walsh August 30, 2022
    by Kevin Walsh August 30, 2022 7 comments

    THIS building at #443-445 West 22nd Street between 9th and 10th Avenues in Chelsea that was to become the Frederic Fleming House was originally constructed in the 1920s as a…

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  • One Shots

    1831 MEETS 2020, Chelsea

    by Kevin Walsh August 29, 2022
    by Kevin Walsh August 29, 2022 2 comments

    THE view looking north on 9th Avenue from West 20th Street in Chelsea is striking, as the glass-fronted towers of Hudson Yards, one of which contains NYC’s highest observation deck,…

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  • One Shots

    STOPLIGHT VARIATIONS, 9th Avenue

    by Kevin Walsh June 9, 2022
    by Kevin Walsh June 9, 2022 3 comments

    I think my favorite Forgotten NY posts are the ones where I get to talk specifically about NYC infrastructure, most of it managed by the Department of Transportation or Metropolitan…

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  • Walks

    8TH AVENUE, Chelsea

    by Kevin Walsh November 7, 2021
    by Kevin Walsh November 7, 2021 10 comments

    WOULD you believe…that the last time I did an extended post on 8th Avenue in Manhattan was…in 2007? It’s true. In fact quite a bit of what I showed on…

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  • Subways & Trains

    HIGH LINE 2021

    by Kevin Walsh May 2, 2021
    by Kevin Walsh May 2, 2021 18 comments

    From 1929-1934, NYC built two metal viaducts, the West Side Elevated Freight Railroad to carry train traffic, and the Miller Elevated Highway to carry automobiles; the Miller was more commonly known…

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