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    CITY HALL TWINS

    by Kevin Walsh June 22, 2022
    by Kevin Walsh June 22, 2022 4 comments

    ALAS, I have never been able to get a decent photo of the two vintage Twinlamps that light the plaza in front of the NYC City Hall entrance; that’s because…

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  • Alleys

    ELK STREET, City Hall

    by Kevin Walsh December 12, 2021
    by Kevin Walsh December 12, 2021 13 comments

    As mentioned on a recent post, on a sparkling December Saturday (quite unlike the following one during which I’m writing this) I decided to walk Chambers Street then across the…

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  • One Shots

    THE NEW YORK SUN, City Hall

    by Kevin Walsh December 8, 2021
    by Kevin Walsh December 8, 2021 8 comments

    I should really save this one for a Chambers Street page, since I recently walked the lower Manhattan route while aiming for the Brooklyn Bridge, whose pedestrian path has finally…

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  • One Shots

    ELIZABETH JENNINGS PLACE, City Hall

    by Kevin Walsh July 3, 2021
    by Kevin Walsh July 3, 2021 5 comments

    I really should have gotten a better photo of it from the other side, but fascinated by the sight of an honorific sign among the distinctive Downtown Alliance black and…

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  • Street Lamps

    RETURN OF THE NASSAU CROOK

    by Kevin Walsh July 1, 2021
    by Kevin Walsh July 1, 2021 0 comment

    BEFORE I talk about the lamppost I plan on discussing today, I’ll say a few words about the building that, in effect, provides its home. (Don’t worry, I’ll explain.) By…

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  • Alleys

    THEATRE ALLEY, City Hall

    by Kevin Walsh June 29, 2021
    by Kevin Walsh June 29, 2021 1 comment

    WHEN ambling around the area east of City Hall Park recently, I was surprised to find Theatre Alley completely open to the air and the elements, as opposed to the…

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  • One Shots

    SUGAR HOUSE WINDOW, City Hall

    by Kevin Walsh June 12, 2020
    by Kevin Walsh June 12, 2020 0 comment

    Sugar refineries, called sugar houses, were built in lower Manhattan during the mid to late 1700s to alleviate the need to import refined sugar from Europe. The sugar houses, with their…

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  • One ShotsSigns

    J&R MUSIC WORLD, City Hall

    by Kevin Walsh November 23, 2018
    by Kevin Walsh November 23, 2018 13 comments

    By GARY FONVILLE Forgotten NY correspondent I was in Lower Manhattan recently headed to a national stationery store to purchase computer ink. Don’t get me started on how computer printer…

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  • Street Scenes

    AROUND CITY HALL PARK, Part 2

    by Kevin Walsh January 2, 2017
    by Kevin Walsh January 2, 2017 0 comment

    Continued from Part 1 I decided to head over to City Hall Park, and the area immediately surrounding it, to look at the lampposts. But as usual with this stuff,…

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  • One ShotsSignsSubways & Trains

    CHAMBERS CLOCK

    by Kevin Walsh April 3, 2016
    by Kevin Walsh April 3, 2016 4 comments

    I’d say there are still  a few dozen of these clocks still in use in the subways, especially on the BMT and IND where countdown clocks have not been installed…

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  • Forgotten SlicesSubways & Trains

    MARITIME MURALS, Fulton Center

    by Kevin Walsh January 21, 2015
    by Kevin Walsh January 21, 2015 5 comments

    I haven’t got a handle yet on the new Fulton Center, the new glass and metal stationhouse, due to be populated with stores and other amenities, that opened in the…

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  • Forgotten SlicesSubways & Trains

    CHAMBERS STREET BMT STATION, City Hall

    by Kevin Walsh January 14, 2015
    by Kevin Walsh January 14, 2015 18 comments

    I first visited the Chambers Street BMT station, which serves J and Z trains during the week and is the southern terminal for the J train on weekends, for Forgotten…

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