by PATRICK O’CONNORForgotten NY Contributor THIS year marks the 50th anniversary of The New York Transit museum and part of the celebrations include screening of several films that feature the…
Greenwich Village
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In the complicated Greenwich Village street layout, Jones Street, along with Cornelia, is a one-block street between West 4th and Bleecker west of 6th Avenue. It was named for Dr.…
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At the end of my Wagner-Hudson River Park jaunt in the fall of 2025, to get back to the IRT for the trip uptown to Penn Station, I meandered east…
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SEVEN years after walking up Thompson Street, which runs north in Manhattan from Broome Street to Washington Squarein Soho and the Village, I walked north on its brother, Sullivan Street,…
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THE modest townhouse at #86 Bedford was once one of NYC’s most popular hangouts for authors and other artistic types. Chumley’s is probably the only major bar or restaurant in New…
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I should have gotten a better photo of the Hotel Keller, West and Barrow Streets, back in 2021, but the rushing West Street traffic prevented me from positioning myself better.…
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WHILE looking around for a relatively short walk recently I settled on MacDougal Street, which many think of as the commercial north-south spine of Greenwich Village. Well, I thought it…
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VERY infrequently in New York City, you’ll find a Street With No Name. For many years, a roadway way down at the southwest end of Bay Ridge, along Dyker Beach…
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DRIFTING into James and Karla Murray territory here, I present the storefront of Myers of Keswick at 634 Hudson, founded by Peter Myers, an immigrant from Keswick, England in 1985 after…
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YEAR-END Billboard charts for 1979 included the top hits “My Sharona,” “Bad Girls,” “Le Freak,” “I Will Survive,” and “YMCA” as disco reached its chart peak that year. None of…
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At 463 West Street you will find the old Bell Labs HQ whose various buildings take up an entire block, between Washington, West, Bank and Bethune Streets. This complex was…
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TWO very different eras of American history appear side by side in Sheridan Square in Greenwich Village. 7th Avenue South was created in the 1910s by the extension of the…