SEEN here on a Forgotten NY tour in 2018, The Tompkins Square Temperance Monument, erected in 1891, was a gift from a San Francisco dentist and temperance activist, Henry Cogswell (1820-1900).…
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TUCKED away on St. Mark’s Place in the East Village is a reminder that it used to be NYC’s foremost German neighborhood. The German-American Shooting Society Clubhouse (Deutsch-Amerikanische Schuetzen Gesselschaft),…
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Continued from Avenue C BY SERGEY KADINSKY AND KEVIN WALSH FROM late 2024-early 2025, I decided to walk Manhattan’s lettered avenues from A to D (Brooklyn has the full panoply,…
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CONTINUING a series begun on Avenue A earlier in the month, I decided to walk Manhattan’s lettered avenues from A to D (Brooklyn has the full panoply, with a few…
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FOUR of the five NYC boroughs have lettered streets, though only Brooklyn carries the idea all the way through. As far as lettered streets go in the USA, Washington, DC’s…
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RECENTLY, my pal from my Macy’s era Tim Skoldberg pointed out that the universal peace symbol formed in bricks at the East 10th Street entrance of St. Mark’s Church at…
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By SERGEY KADINSKYForgotten NY correspondent On a recent walk on 12th Street, a block from the world’s largest used bookshop, I passed by a scaffolding-clad public school building dating to…
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SADLY, this painted sidewalk sign for glazier Ideal Glass at #20-22 East 2nd Street near 2nd Avenue (that’s a lot of “2”‘s) has been painted over, giving the space a…
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THE 2nd Shearith Israel Cemetery on West 11th Street near 6th Avenue (described on this FNY page) isn’t the only “deactivated” cemetery on 11th Street. I recently found out about…
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AFTER a recent series on 6th Avenue, I’m not quite finished with the number six, as a recent walk took me into the East Village down East 6th and 7th…
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If I was ever in the Continental, 3rd Avenue and St. Mark’s Place, the memory has slipped between the cracks in my head as I don’t recall it. I do…
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THE New York City “candy store” is a longstanding tradition and in the guise of also selling magazines, newspapers, cigars, toys and snacks, they’re still around today. However there was…