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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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  • Cobblestones

    4th STREET, PART 1

    by Kevin Walsh October 17, 2021
    by Kevin Walsh October 17, 2021 8 comments

    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 of 13th…

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  • Forgotten Slices

    CLARKSON STREET, West Village

    by Kevin Walsh July 27, 2021
    by Kevin Walsh July 27, 2021 4 comments

    CLARKSON Street runs between West Street and a rare intersection where four streets come together (I’ll get into that later). While slouching around in the West Village in the ungodly…

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  • Walks

    WASHINGTON PLACE, Greenwich Village

    by Kevin Walsh July 25, 2021
    by Kevin Walsh July 25, 2021 9 comments

    THERE are a few remaining streets in Greenwich Village I haven’t walked, or at least purposefully walked from beginning to end. The Village is known for its Washingtons: Washington Street,…

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  • One Shots

    PORTICO PLACE, Greenwich Village

    by Kevin Walsh April 17, 2021
    by Kevin Walsh April 17, 2021 0 comment

    No doubt, the handsomest building on West 13th Street in the Village is between 6th and 7th Avenues: Village Presbyterian Church, now residences called Portico Place. Nothing at all was…

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  • Alleys

    GAY STREET, Greenwich Village

    by Kevin Walsh April 10, 2021
    by Kevin Walsh April 10, 2021 4 comments

    Between Waverly and Christopher just west of 6th Avenue is a short dogleg called Gay Street, which  contains a number of handsome Federal-style buildings and has a varied lore. The name…

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  • One ShotsStreet Lamps

    TYPE F, Greenwich Village

    by Kevin Walsh March 26, 2021
    by Kevin Walsh March 26, 2021 6 comments

    On this 22nd anniversary of Forgotten New York, I’ll turn to one of the items that got me started on this thing a couple of decades ago, a remaining Type…

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  • Walks

    JANE STREET, Greenwich Village

    by Kevin Walsh March 21, 2021
    by Kevin Walsh March 21, 2021 13 comments

    Jane Street wasn’t my original thinking today. My original plan called for a ride on the PATH train all the way to Newark and then a ride on the Newark…

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  • Forgotten Slices

    VILLAGE CIGARS, Greenwich Village

    by Kevin Walsh February 10, 2021
    by Kevin Walsh February 10, 2021 7 comments

    The intersection of 7th Avenue South and Christopher Street has existed only since the 1910s, when 7th Avenue was hammered south to connect 7th and Greenwich Avenues with Varick and…

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  • One Shots

    FORMER B. DALTON, Greenwich Village

    by Kevin Walsh February 1, 2021
    by Kevin Walsh February 1, 2021 11 comments

    The corner of 6th Avenue and West 8th Street, #396 6th Avenue, was a book store as long as I can remember it, beginning in the 1980s and continuing into…

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  • One Shots

    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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  • Neighborhoods

    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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