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    A LOOK AT GRAND CENTRAL MADISON

    by Kevin Walsh February 22, 2024
    by Kevin Walsh February 22, 2024 14 comments

    After 25 years now it’s obvious that Forgotten New York, besides a chronicler of a NYC the guidebooks won’t tell you about, is also enthusiastic about NYC’s infrastructure. To that…

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    GRAND CENTRAL MADISON QUOTES

    by Kevin Walsh February 13, 2024
    by Kevin Walsh February 13, 2024 6 comments

    GRAND Central Madison, the new Long Island Rail Road terminal beneath the main terminal serving Metro-North rains, opened in early 2023 after about 20 years of construction. It’s truly vast,…

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  • Neighborhoods

    GRAND CENTRAL LAUNDROMAT, Hillcrest

    by Kevin Walsh February 9, 2022
    by Kevin Walsh February 9, 2022 16 comments

    THE Grand Central Laundromat can be found on Parsons Boulevard, a major north-south road in the middle of Queens, and seemingly has nothing to do with Grand Central Terminal (I…

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  • Subways & Trains

    42ND STREET SHUTTLE CHANGES

    by Kevin Walsh October 3, 2021
    by Kevin Walsh October 3, 2021 26 comments

    I just want to do a quick Sunday feature page this week, as I got plenty of walking in and watched plenty of baseball and football. A few weeks ago…

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  • One Shots

    ST. AGNES CHURCH, Grand Central

    by Kevin Walsh May 31, 2018
    by Kevin Walsh May 31, 2018 4 comments

    As recent FNY readers know, I went to work temporarily recently in the same building where I began my career in typesetting and the printed word over thirty years ago…

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  • One Shots

    GRAND CENTRAL RATS

    by Kevin Walsh March 10, 2018
    by Kevin Walsh March 10, 2018 1 comment

    It’s an oft told tale for Forgotten NY fans, so stop me if you’ve heard it before. For those who haven’t, you can see three rats scurrying up the struts supporting…

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  • Walks

    GRAND CENTRAL to UNION SQUARE

    by Kevin Walsh April 19, 2015
    by Kevin Walsh April 19, 2015 10 comments

    It was a Saturday, the warmest day of the spring yet, and I had come to Manhattan’s east side to search for relics. The #7 train was running between Queens…

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  • Subways & Trains

    PARADE OF TRAINS, Grand Central Terminal

    by Kevin Walsh May 25, 2013
    by Kevin Walsh May 25, 2013 19 comments

    On the weekend of May 11th and 12th, 2013, Grand Central Terminal assembled a group of restored luxury sleeper, lounge, and diner cars that ran on various railroads countrywide as…

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  • Forgotten SlicesStreet Lamps

    GRAND CENTRAL LIGHT

    by Kevin Walsh February 15, 2013
    by Kevin Walsh February 15, 2013 2 comments

    As part of its centennial celebrations in early 2013, Grand Central Terminal, at East 42nd Street between Vanderbilt and Lexington Avenues, has restored a 1919 lamppost that was taken out…

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  • One ShotsStreet Lamps

    PARK AVENUE LAMPS

    by Kevin Walsh December 18, 2012
    by Kevin Walsh December 18, 2012 3 comments

    In the mid-20th Century, just when NYC was replacing its ornate cast iron and wrought iron posts with more sedate aluminum octagonal-shaped lampposts, Park Avenue got a set of posts…

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    PARK AVENUE TUNNEL

    by Kevin Walsh December 6, 2012
    by Kevin Walsh December 6, 2012 21 comments

    Motorists know all about the Park Avenue Tunnel, which runs beneath the avenue between 33rd and 40th Streets, but few pedestrians ever see it. It was built in 1834 as…

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  • Neighborhoods

    by Kevin Walsh October 25, 2011
    by Kevin Walsh October 25, 2011 1 comment

    Hello ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, welcome to Forgotten New York Walks, a new FNY category and the first since FNY Slices was instituted in July 2007. Walks will…

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