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    PEARL STREET, Manhattan, Part 2

    by Kevin Walsh July 10, 2016
    by Kevin Walsh July 10, 2016 13 comments

    Continued from Part 1 In May 2016 I decided to walk up Pearl Street’s entire length from Battery Park to Tribeca. It’s an oddly positioned street, as far as downtown…

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    WALKING PEARL STREET

    by Kevin Walsh July 3, 2016
    by Kevin Walsh July 3, 2016 7 comments

    In May 2016 I decided to walk up Pearl Street’s entire length from Battery Park to Tribeca. It’s an oddly positioned street, as far as downtown goes, first running northeast,…

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    NEW ‘CANYON OF HEROES’ STREET SIGNS

    by Kevin Walsh June 23, 2016
    by Kevin Walsh June 23, 2016 0 comment

    The Downtown Alliance, a business improvement district representing lower Manhattan including the Financial District, first unveiled a set of black and white street signs back in 2000, most of which…

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    MEMORIAL OF THE “FOUR HUNDRED”

    by Kevin Walsh December 22, 2015
    by Kevin Walsh December 22, 2015 1 comment

    The New York City of the years following the Civil War was a time of great population growth, as immigrants from around the globe flocked here for new opportunities. In…

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  • One ShotsSubways & Trains

    WHITEHALL SUBWAY MOSAIC

    by Kevin Walsh November 28, 2015
    by Kevin Walsh November 28, 2015 2 comments

    Seen at regular intervals along the walls at the Whitehall Street BMT subway station serving R trains, the first or last in Manhattan depending on your direction, are these terra…

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    TRINITY BUILDING SUBWAY ENTRANCE, Financial District

    by Kevin Walsh November 26, 2015
    by Kevin Walsh November 26, 2015 5 comments

    Just north of Trinity Churchyard at Broadway and Wall Street  is the Trinity Building, designed along with the U.S. Realty Building next door, by Francis Kimball and constructed from 1904-1907…

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  • One ShotsStreet Lamps

    STATE STREET LAMP, Financial District

    by Kevin Walsh January 27, 2015
    by Kevin Walsh January 27, 2015 2 comments

    A group of these nonstandard lampposts once stood outside #17 State Street at Pearl Street, which is the immediately recognizable 42-story building with the curved glass facade in lower Manhattan…

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    BEAVER STREET, Financial District

    by Kevin Walsh January 10, 2015
    by Kevin Walsh January 10, 2015 23 comments

    One of Manhattan’s oldest streets was named very early on, in the 1660s, and commemorates the paddle-tailed, dam-building, aquatic rodent whose pelts made up the chief avenue of commerce between…

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  • Forgotten SlicesStreet Lamps

    PINE STREET BISHOP CROOK, Financial District

    by Kevin Walsh December 22, 2014
    by Kevin Walsh December 22, 2014 2 comments

    120 Broadway, the Equitable Building, is one of those rare NYC buildings that occupy an entire block, between Broadway and Nasssau, Pine and Cedar Streets. It was designed by architect…

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  • One ShotsSubways & Trains

    195 BROADWAY EXIT, Fulton Street

    by Kevin Walsh November 25, 2014
    by Kevin Walsh November 25, 2014 7 comments

    There’s been a lot of “ink” and cyberink spilled lately regarding the new Fulton Transit Center, which is basically a new headhouse with rearranged passageways that links the BMT, IND…

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  • CemeteriesOne Shots

    ADAM ALLYN, COMEDIAN, Trinity Church Cemetery

    by Kevin Walsh July 24, 2014
    by Kevin Walsh July 24, 2014 5 comments

    Trinity Church Cemetery, at Broadway and Wall Street, is one of Manhattan’s oldest cemeteries. (The oldest may be the First Shearith Jewish Cemetery on St. James Place just south of…

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    BONY, Wall Street

    by Kevin Walsh January 15, 2014
    by Kevin Walsh January 15, 2014 0 comment

    48 Wall Street is a  1928 building designed by Benjamin Wistar Morris, crowned with a Corinthian temple and a bronze eagle (invisible from Wall Street). The central banking room, seen…

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