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    COOGAN, UPTOWN AND DOWNTOWN

    by Kevin Walsh December 20, 2022
    by Kevin Walsh December 20, 2022 2 comments

    COOGAN’S Bluff is the cliff leading down to the Harlem River from Edgecombe Avenue. It used to overlook the Polo Grounds, the ballpark home of the New York Giants, and…

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  • Walks

    CHINATOWN STREET SIGNS

    by Kevin Walsh November 20, 2022
    by Kevin Walsh November 20, 2022 2 comments

    I’ll lead off today with a photo of the Bowery looking north from Stanton Street in Little Italy, because it still presents a representative look at NYC architectural styles of…

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    GRAND STREET, Soho-Chinatown, Part 2

    by Kevin Walsh June 26, 2022
    by Kevin Walsh June 26, 2022 11 comments

    Continued from Part 1 In the late winters and springs of 2021-2022 I found I was walking through Soho and its bordering neighborhoods, Chinatown and the Lower East Side. Already,…

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  • Forgotten Slices

    MARKET STREET, Two Bridges

    by Kevin Walsh May 22, 2022
    by Kevin Walsh May 22, 2022 5 comments

    FOR reasons that will become apparent, I always had something of an affinity for Market Street, which sidles up to the Manhattan Bridge’s south side and runs for a few…

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  • Walks

    CHRYSTIE STREET-2ND AVENUE

    by Kevin Walsh May 15, 2022
    by Kevin Walsh May 15, 2022 7 comments

    THE mission was simple. To walk the entire length of Chrystie Street from Canal to Houston, and then 2nd Avenue as far north as I pleased, the reason being that…

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  • One Shots

    WHO IS THAT GUY? LIN ZE XU

    by Kevin Walsh March 7, 2022
    by Kevin Walsh March 7, 2022 3 comments

    On December 31, 1838 Lin Ze Xu (1785-1850 ) was appointed by the Chinese emperor as Imperial Commissioner with the mission to eradicate opium in China. The sale of opium…

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  • One ShotsSubways & Trains

    CANAL STREET, Chinatown

    by Kevin Walsh February 26, 2022
    by Kevin Walsh February 26, 2022 12 comments

    YOU cannot accuse the MTA of ignoring Canal Street. In previous eras, the IRT, BMT and IND have all constructed major stations at the east-west Manhattan route that traces the…

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  • FNY CROSSTOWN

    HESTER STREET, Chinatown-Little Italy

    by Kevin Walsh June 27, 2021
    by Kevin Walsh June 27, 2021 13 comments

    HESTER is name not commonly given to girls anymore, but it has a lengthy history; it’s a variant of the Hebrew name Esther, which translates to “star.” Many Hesters have…

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  • Forgotten Slices

    SARA D. ROOSEVELT PARK, Chinatown

    by Kevin Walsh February 11, 2020
    by Kevin Walsh February 11, 2020 7 comments

    By SERGEY KADINSKYForgotten NY correspondent In the crowded Lower East Side of Manhattan there is a linear park covering seven blocks between Houston and Canal Streets. It is the product…

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  • Walks

    CANAL STREET PART 2

    by Kevin Walsh April 21, 2019
    by Kevin Walsh April 21, 2019 6 comments

    Continued from Part 1 I realized in late winter 2019 that I had never walked Canal Street from SoHo all the way east to where it ends at East Broadway,…

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  • Roads

    CANAL STREET, SoHo-LES

    by Kevin Walsh April 14, 2019
    by Kevin Walsh April 14, 2019 7 comments

    I realized in late winter 2019 that I had never walked Canal Street from SoHo all the way east to where it ends at East Broadway, despite there being some…

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  • Forgotten Slices

    MOSCO STREET, Chinatown

    by Kevin Walsh December 19, 2018
    by Kevin Walsh December 19, 2018 19 comments

    The other day when I posted my Mulberry Street page I touched on Mosco Street, which runs for a block between Mulberry and Mott, a block north of Worth. I…

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