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    6 WEEHAWKEN STREET, Greenwich Village

    by Kevin Walsh November 7, 2022
    by Kevin Walsh November 7, 2022 2 comments

    A short lane called Weehawken Street runs between Christopher and West 10th Streets just east of West Street and stands on what, in the colonial era, was on the grounds…

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  • Forgotten Slices

    WALKER PARK, Greenwich Village

    by Kevin Walsh August 25, 2022
    by Kevin Walsh August 25, 2022 8 comments

    JAMES J. Walker Park, today facing Hudson Street between St. Lukes Place and West Houston Street, was once an uptown branch of Trinity Cemetery,  established in 1801 as a churchyard…

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  • Signs

    UNIQUE SIGN, Greenwich Village

    by Kevin Walsh August 24, 2022
    by Kevin Walsh August 24, 2022 5 comments

    I have something of a fascination for St. Luke’s Place in Greenwich Village, as it has a unique west to east street numbering scheme and is one of the few…

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  • One Shots

    FRACTIONAL ADDRESSES

    by Kevin Walsh August 22, 2022
    by Kevin Walsh August 22, 2022 12 comments

    CASUAL walkers around Greenwich Village will probably come across fractional addresses, such as 548 1/2 (I know there’s a way to access the one-half fraction on my keyboard, but I…

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  • One Shots

    HOUSE OF MANY NAMES, Greenwich Village

    by Kevin Walsh August 15, 2022
    by Kevin Walsh August 15, 2022 1 comment

    THIS handsome, 7-story, large, red-brick building at 320 West 12th Street on the southwest corner at Hudson Street has gone by many names during its century-plus existence. Currently, it’s a luxury condominium…

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  • One Shots

    THE END OF MACDOUGAL

    by Kevin Walsh March 21, 2022
    by Kevin Walsh March 21, 2022 4 comments

    BEFORE 1928 6th Avenue went only as far south as Minetta and Carmine Streets in the center of Greenwich Village, and was mostly covered by an elevated train north of…

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  • Walks

    UNIVERSITY PLACE, Greenwich Village

    by Kevin Walsh March 6, 2022
    by Kevin Walsh March 6, 2022 6 comments

    DESIRING a rather quick walk that would nonetheless allow me to get my air of a weekend — as a work from homer, I am chained to my computer during…

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  • Neighborhoods

    12th DAY

    by Kevin Walsh February 13, 2022
    by Kevin Walsh February 13, 2022 2 comments

    The following is an expanded version of my SpliceToday piece from February 9th, 2022 with additional text and photos. WAY back in early 2009, when I and the world were…

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  • One Shots

    CHARLES LANE 1900, Greenwich Village

    by Kevin Walsh January 31, 2022
    by Kevin Walsh January 31, 2022 5 comments

    I just discovered an incredible photo collection of street scenes in New York City from a few years either side of 1900 from a collection made available from the New-York…

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  • One ShotsSigns

    GOLDEN RULE LIQUORS, Greenwich Village

    by Kevin Walsh January 18, 2022
    by Kevin Walsh January 18, 2022 2 comments

    WHILE edging down Hudson Street In October 2021 I once again passed Golden Rule Liquors at #457 with its pair of neon sidewalk signs, one above the door, one suspended…

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  • Alleys

    GROVE COURT, Greenwich Village

    by Kevin Walsh November 20, 2021
    by Kevin Walsh November 20, 2021 3 comments

    GROVE Court in the Village can be found in a bend in Grove Street between Bedford and Hudson Streets. In fact if you look at a street map you will…

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    4th STREET, PART 2

    by Kevin Walsh October 24, 2021
    by Kevin Walsh October 24, 2021 13 comments

    Continued from Part 1 FOR this FNY Crosstown post I selected 4th Street, which is the only numbered east-west street (that always had a number) to almost go river to river south…

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