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    FORT GEORGE TUNNEL, INWOOD

    by Kevin Walsh May 15, 2025
    by Kevin Walsh May 15, 2025 1 comment

    THE Dyckman Street station on the #1 train, Dyckman Street and Nagle Avenue, is among my favorites, because it emerges from a tunnel into the light, like Brooklyn’s Parkside Avenue station and…

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  • Alleys

    ONE AND DONE, MANHATTAN, PART 3

    by Kevin Walsh February 25, 2024
    by Kevin Walsh February 25, 2024 14 comments

    Continued from Part 2 GETTING tired of the One and Done series yet? I’m not, I’m having fun with it. My thinking is I’ll wrap up Manhattan, then wait a…

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  • One Shots

    SEAMAN ARCH, INWOOD

    by Kevin Walsh August 18, 2023
    by Kevin Walsh August 18, 2023 6 comments

    IT’S been awhile since I’ve mentioned the Seaman Estate Arch in Inwood, or even been in Inwood, so I’ll just feature it today for those who are some what new…

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  • One Shots

    THAT ELUSIVE 200

    by Kevin Walsh April 27, 2022
    by Kevin Walsh April 27, 2022 6 comments

    FOR an unknown reason, New York City has been cagy about assigning a 200th Street. In Inwood, one of the main east-west streets is Dyckman, which runs from the Hudson…

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  • Neighborhoods

    FORT TRYON

    by Kevin Walsh January 26, 2020
    by Kevin Walsh January 26, 2020 16 comments

    Although NYC divested most of its colonial-era “royal” names after defeating the British in the Revolutionary War, there are a few that doggedly hang on, such as Prince St. in…

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  • One ShotsSigns

    MATTY ALOU WAY, INWOOD

    by Kevin Walsh August 26, 2019
    by Kevin Walsh August 26, 2019 9 comments

    Matty Alou (1938-2011) was a National League batting champion from the Dominican Republic. Though he never resided in New York City, Dominicans in Washington Heights and Inwood point with pride…

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  • Neighborhoods

    INWOOD and MARBLE HILL

    by Kevin Walsh August 25, 2019
    by Kevin Walsh August 25, 2019 10 comments

    Forgotten New York’s Inwood and Marble Hill tour was so successful this past June (2019) I thought I’d recap it here… Inwood was the last part of Manhattan to develop…

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  • One ShotsStreet Lamps

    INWOOD’S OLD POST

    by Kevin Walsh March 28, 2019
    by Kevin Walsh March 28, 2019 2 comments

    March 2019 marks Forgotten New York’s 20th anniversary. To celebrate the occasion, I’ve re-scanned about 150 key images from the early days of FNY from 35MM prints. In the early…

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  • One Shots

    PACKARD SHOWROOM, Inwood

    by Kevin Walsh January 28, 2017
    by Kevin Walsh January 28, 2017 2 comments

    The Packard showroom at Broadway and Sherman Avenue, across the street from Fort Tryon Park,  was designed in 1926 by architect Albert Kahn, who designed Packard showrooms across the country and,…

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  • Subways & TrainsWalks

    MANHATTAN’S ONLY EL, Broadway, Part 1

    by Kevin Walsh December 11, 2016
    by Kevin Walsh December 11, 2016 0 comment

    I’m continuing my “Under the El” series, which recently visited 31st Street in Astoria, with a walk under Manhattan’s last remaining el, which continues on as far as Van Cortlandt…

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    200th STREET, Manhattan-Bronx

    by Kevin Walsh February 10, 2016
    by Kevin Walsh February 10, 2016 20 comments

    I’ll say right off the bat: there’s no such thing as a 200th Street, East or West, in Manhattan or the Bronx, but I hope here to indicate why there…

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  • One ShotsSubways & Trains

    INTO THE LIGHT in Inwood

    by Kevin Walsh April 24, 2015
    by Kevin Walsh April 24, 2015 3 comments

    At Dyckman Street The IRT emerges from, and enters, a tunnel under High Bridge Park inscribed with the title “Fort George” and the dates 1776 and 1905. Fort George, originally…

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