THE dead of winter is a natural time to commune with the dead and in late January I was stumbling around in St. Paul’s Churchyard, which I’ve neglected over the…
Financial District
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I recently revisited Beaver Street, downtown in the financial district. One of Manhattan’s oldest streets was named very early on, in the 1660s, and commemorates the paddle-tailed, dam-building, aquatic rodent…
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HERE’S the front doorway of #5-#7 Ten Eyck Street at Union Avenue. Ten Eyck Street runs in three pieces in East Williamsburg, through the Williamsburg Houses, where it’s reduced to…
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I still have grand dreams and ambitions. Publish a book and own my own place? Done years ago. Marriage? Make millions? Let’s not get crazy. However, it popped into my…
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TWO decades ago while meandering about in the rain down Maiden Lane in the eastern Financial District downtown in May 2003 I came across an unmarked street issuing north. I ascertained…
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NEW York City’s skyline is the envy of the world, a sight tourists travel from across the globe to see. But in some places, its sidewalks are nearly as interesting,…
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THE original South Ferry station at the tip of Manhattan is a very complex operation that comprises no less than four separate platforms that serve, or served, the IRT 7th…
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By SERGEY KADINSKYForgotten NY correspondent THERE are few parks in the city that are older than Central Park and rise near its level of fame. Battery Park is certainly known…
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By SERGEY KADINSKYForgotten NY correspondent In July 2023, Kevin rediscovered a lost street in downtown Manhattan named Cheseborough Court, which ran for a block between Bridge and Pearl Streets, near…
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I have been perusing my collection of ancient maps, blowing off the dust from maps I have in my closet I haven’t turned to in years; I have them collected…
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In early December 2020 it was a grey cold weekday (with wet snow later), but nonetheless I had the “Wandering Sickness” and decided to go straight up William Street in…
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JOHN. It’s probably the most common given name in the English language. Most Johns walking around today are likely named for their father, or a prominent family member, who were…