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    FOUR WALLS, City Hall Park

    by Kevin Walsh June 10, 2013
    by Kevin Walsh June 10, 2013 1 comment

    Bridewell Prison was in what is now City Hall Park [at Broadway and Murray Streets]. It was designed by Theophilus Hardenbrook in 1775.  The jail, poorhouse and another building known as…

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    FORGOTTENTOUR #63 TOUR PHOTOS, City Hall/Nassau Street

    by Kevin Walsh April 9, 2013
    by Kevin Walsh April 9, 2013 2 comments

    Here are scenes from ForgottenTour #63 at the City Hall Park area and Nassau Street, finishing at Broad and Wall Streets. All photos by Joe DeMarco and Bob Mulero. Descriptions…

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  • Street Lamps

    BISHOP CROOKS

    by Kevin Walsh August 8, 1998
    by Kevin Walsh August 8, 1998 0 comment

    New York City has preserved more of the classic Bishop Crook lampposts than any other of the cast-iron designs. In fact, the city has been busy since the 1980s bringing…

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    TWINLAMPS. Two..two…lampposts in one

    by Kevin Walsh May 4, 1998
    by Kevin Walsh May 4, 1998 0 comment

    Once the mainstay of multilane boulevards in the pre-expressway era, cast-iron twinlamps once decorated highways like the Grand Concourse in the Bronx and Queens Boulevard and Horace Harding Boulevard in…

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