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    SARA D. ROOSEVELT PARK, Chinatown

    by Kevin Walsh February 11, 2020
    by Kevin Walsh February 11, 2020 5 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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    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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    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 15 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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    MULBERRY STREET, Little Italy

    by Kevin Walsh December 16, 2018
    by Kevin Walsh December 16, 2018 15 comments

    In deep and dark November I took a walk straight up Mulberry Street for its entire length, which I had never previously done. It skirts the west edge of Chinatown and cleaves…

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  • One ShotsStreet Lamps

    CHINATOWN LAMP

    by Kevin Walsh December 12, 2018
    by Kevin Walsh December 12, 2018 2 comments

    Many Chinatowns around the USA make full use of local decor, even down to the directional signs and lampposts, and beginning in 1964 or so, NYC began to add its…

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  • One ShotsStreet Lamps

    2nd AVENUE EL LAMP, Chinatown

    by Kevin Walsh July 25, 2017
    by Kevin Walsh July 25, 2017 3 comments

    It’s always a sad day when any mass transit is eliminated, and it was indeed in August 1942 when the Second Avenue El was taken down. This shot shows a workman…

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  • One Shots

    BOWERY 1964

    by Kevin Walsh June 5, 2016
    by Kevin Walsh June 5, 2016 0 comment

    Infrastructurally, there’s a lot going on in this picture of the Bowery at Pell Street looking south. This is just about at the starting point of the Bowery at Chatham…

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    BISHOP CROOK, Bowery

    by Kevin Walsh May 20, 2015
    by Kevin Walsh May 20, 2015 2 comments

    Until about 2000, the Manhattan entrance to the Manhattan Bridge was a graveyard, or depository, for several outmoded types of lampposts… bishop crooks, Type F posts, and post-1950 curved mast…

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  • One Shots

    CHINATOWN PHONE BOOTH

    by Kevin Walsh March 28, 2015
    by Kevin Walsh March 28, 2015 13 comments

    The other day, FNY showed you one of the original Chinatown Deskey lamps. What’s not quite as remembered is that even the phone booths were also decked out with pagoda-esque…

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  • One ShotsStreet Lamps

    ORIGINAL PAGODA DESKEY, Chinatown

    by Kevin Walsh March 18, 2015
    by Kevin Walsh March 18, 2015 2 comments

    Many Chinatowns around the USA make full use of local decor, even down to the directional signs and lampposts, and beginning in 1964 or so, NYC began to add its…

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  • One Shots

    CUP & SAUCER, Lower East Side

    by Kevin Walsh October 8, 2014
    by Kevin Walsh October 8, 2014 7 comments

    It’s hard to say which neighborhood the Cup & Saucer on Canal and Eldridge Streets is in. If this was 30 years ago you could say without a doubt it…

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