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…
Greenwich Village
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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…