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    RIDE THE WHITE HORSE

    by Kevin Walsh December 4, 2020
    by Kevin Walsh December 4, 2020 0 comment

    The White Horse Tavern is one of NYC’s long-lived literary hangouts, and yet another with an ancient neon sign. It has been here on Hudson Street and West 11th since 1878,…

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    BRET HARTE HOUSE, Greenwich Village

    by Kevin Walsh August 20, 2020
    by Kevin Walsh August 20, 2020 2 comments

    Eons ago, in the summer of 2006, I was scouting the West Village for old buildings, hidden parks, strange infrastructure: you know, the Forgotten New York usual — when I…

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  • Forgotten SlicesRoads

    LITTLE STREETS

    by Kevin Walsh July 9, 2020
    by Kevin Walsh July 9, 2020 3 comments

    I got to thinking the other day (that’s always a dubious proposition; nothing but woe visits when I do that) about the streets in New York City that are “Little.”…

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  • One ShotsStreet Lamps

    6TH AVENUE 1955

    by Kevin Walsh January 18, 2020
    by Kevin Walsh January 18, 2020 10 comments

    On 6th Avenue looking north at West 14th Street, a changing of the lamppost guard is imminent. A brand new set of aluminum octagonal-shafted poles have just been installed, sporting…

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  • Forgotten Slices

    CHUMLEY’S 2006

    by Kevin Walsh November 9, 2019
    by Kevin Walsh November 9, 2019 3 comments

    A piece this week in Untapped Cities about Chumley’s, the “secret speakeasy” on Bedford Street in Greenwich Village that recently reopened after 10 years of renovations got me thinking about…

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  • One ShotsStreet Lamps

    WEST BROADWAY POST, Greenwich Village

    by Kevin Walsh July 8, 2019
    by Kevin Walsh July 8, 2019 5 comments

    My fascination continues with the so-called “special posts” that lurked under elevated trains in the early 20th Century, especially in Manhattan. They seemed to be found most often under the…

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  • Street Scenes

    SNAPSHOTS FROM THE WPA GUIDE

    by Kevin Walsh April 29, 2019
    by Kevin Walsh April 29, 2019 10 comments

    The Works Progress Administration Guide to NYC is a dense, 700-page volume with tightly-spaced type in a small but readable Garamond font, with a generous use of maps, art and…

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  • AdsOne Shots

    LIVERY STABLE, Greenwich Village

    by Kevin Walsh April 15, 2019
    by Kevin Walsh April 15, 2019 0 comment

    You can just barely make out the word “livery” on an apartment building at 329 6th Avenue between West 3rd and 4th Streets in Greenwich Village, and two larger letters,…

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  • One Shots

    HOLLAND HOTEL, West Village

    by Kevin Walsh January 25, 2019
    by Kevin Walsh January 25, 2019 1 comment

    The former Holland Hotel, with its circular corner turret, looks much the same today as it did when it was built in 1904, a Renaissance-inspired building designed by architect Charles…

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  • One ShotsStreet Lamps

    WEST 10th WALL LAMP

    by Kevin Walsh January 24, 2019
    by Kevin Walsh January 24, 2019 0 comment

    150 Charles Street, finished in 2016, contains some of the most expensive apartments in the city, where penthouses can sell for nearly $35 million. It’s also a celebrity magnet, with…

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  • Forgotten Slices

    BETHUNE STREET, West Village

    by Kevin Walsh January 22, 2019
    by Kevin Walsh January 22, 2019 6 comments

    On a Sunday in January 2019, I decided to walk up and down the east-west streets of the northwest region of Greenwich Village, noting that I hadn’t yet taken a…

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  • Forgotten Slices

    HORATIO STREET, West Village

    by Kevin Walsh January 17, 2019
    by Kevin Walsh January 17, 2019 5 comments

    On a Sunday in January 2019, I decided to walk up and down the east-west streets of the northwest region of Greenwich Village, noting that I hadn’t yet taken a…

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