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    STOPLIGHT CONVERSION, Harlem

    by Kevin Walsh July 18, 2022
    by Kevin Walsh July 18, 2022 3 comments

    WAY back in the Easy 80s, NYC’s King of Lampposts, Bob Mulero, came across this hybrid gem on a street corner in Harlem. It appears that the top half of…

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  • Forgotten Slices

    WHERE HARLEM BEGINS

    by Kevin Walsh November 18, 2020
    by Kevin Walsh November 18, 2020 2 comments

    By SERGEY KADINSKY
Forgotten New York correspondent When city leaders name a park after an individual, we presume that the intent is to eternally honor the namesake with a place on…

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  • One Shots

    PYTHIAN HALL, Harlem

    by Kevin Walsh April 14, 2020
    by Kevin Walsh April 14, 2020 3 comments

    It’s a “pythy” at 54B East 125th just off Madison, which is an 1891 Knights of Pythias hall. It wraps around the corner and also fronts on Madison. The Knights…

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  • Forgotten SlicesStreet Lamps

    CAUTION DEAD AHEAD

    by Kevin Walsh March 21, 2020
    by Kevin Walsh March 21, 2020 13 comments

    I have written about stoplights before, the red, green and sometimes yellow type, especially former mounting designs whose examples I found around town in the 1990s when I began compiling…

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  • Forgotten Slices

    HARLEM COURTHOUSE

    by Kevin Walsh December 4, 2019
    by Kevin Walsh December 4, 2019 1 comment

    Walk east a couple of blocks on East 121st from Mount Morris Park — between Lexington and 3rd Avenue — and you will find a majestic, Gothic and Romanesque building…

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    3rd AVENUE AD MYSTERIES

    by Kevin Walsh December 1, 2019
    by Kevin Walsh December 1, 2019 11 comments

    Staggering around Harlem on a recent Saturday, I gravitated to 3rd Avenue, which I hadn’t invaded recently. Mindful of the fact that 3rd Avenue had an elevated train rumbling over…

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  • One Shots

    GRISTEDE’S, Harlem, 1940

    by Kevin Walsh November 27, 2019
    by Kevin Walsh November 27, 2019 8 comments

    I was riffling through Municipal Archives 1940 Manhattan photos on 3rd Avenue recently (I do it so you don’t have to) when I happened upon a photo of this Gristede’s…

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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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  • NeighborhoodsWalks

    MANHATTANVILLE TO MOTT HAVEN

    by Kevin Walsh December 30, 2018
    by Kevin Walsh December 30, 2018 4 comments

    I took a quick stroll east on 125th Street, crossing the 3rd Avenue Bridge into Mott Haven, west across the Madison Avenue Bridge back into Harlem again. Got some air…

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  • Walks

    MANHATTANVILLE TO HUNTS POINT, Part 1

    by Kevin Walsh September 2, 2018
    by Kevin Walsh September 2, 2018 15 comments

    I had an interregnum of work this past spring (2018), the better part of two months for a financial printer in Midtown. The hours were overnights from 12 to 8,…

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  • One ShotsStreet Lamps

    5th AVENUE “LEAFIES”, Harlem

    by Kevin Walsh July 26, 2017
    by Kevin Walsh July 26, 2017 0 comment

    Duke Ellington Circle, 5th Avenue and 110th Street at the northeast end of Central Park, features these last surviving examples of leaf-scrolled “Corvingtons” ( coined the name “Leafies” for them) that…

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  • One ShotsSubways & Trains

    HARLEM IND SUBSTATION

    by Kevin Walsh May 31, 2017
    by Kevin Walsh May 31, 2017 7 comments

    Electrical substations perform a number of tasks including transforming voltage from high to low or vice versa, or generate, transmit or distribute electrical voltage as needed. There are dozens such…

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