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    LIVING FOR THE CITY Part 2

    by Kevin Walsh July 16, 2006
    by Kevin Walsh July 16, 2006 0 comment

      LIVING FOR THE CITY, PART 1    City Hall Park New York’s present City Hall was completed in 1811 and is the third City Hall overall. Though most of the…

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    LIVING FOR THE CITY. My first visit to City Hall station since 1998

    by Kevin Walsh July 16, 2006
    by Kevin Walsh July 16, 2006 3 comments

    EVEN though I have chronicled NYC’s lost, magnificent City Hall Station a number of times in Forgotten NY I had only visited once before, in a 1998 Transit Museum tour that…

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    SUBWAY ENTRANCE STYLINGS

    by Kevin Walsh February 14, 2005
    by Kevin Walsh February 14, 2005 1 comment

    Title card: Mid-1980s IRT retro-kiosk at Astor Place, ca. 1985 In New York City, just about every subway entrance on the system’s 460-plus stations is somehow different, and that’s no mean feat.…

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    POSTCARDS FROM DOWN UNDER. A look at postcards from the subway’s earliest era

    by Kevin Walsh August 7, 2004
    by Kevin Walsh August 7, 2004 0 comment

    AS MANY Forgotten fans know, what attracts me to the subway is its iconography and signage that preserve styles from decades past; look in any Forgotten NY subway page devoted…

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    UNUSUAL SUBWAY STATIONS

    by Kevin Walsh June 20, 2004
    by Kevin Walsh June 20, 2004 0 comment

      AS WE celebrate the 100th anniversary of the New York City subway in 2004, just think about what 100 years has meant for the sheer variety of architectural styles that…

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    VINTAGE SUBWAY CARS

    by Kevin Walsh March 13, 2004
    by Kevin Walsh March 13, 2004 1 comment

    R4 car from MTA’s Transit Museum at Prospect Park LUDDISM isn’t Forgotten-NY’s thing. We don’t indulge in nostalgia because, when it comes down to it, the past ain’t what it’s cracked…

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    THE FUTURE WAS YESTERDAY. When the subways used modern design

    by Kevin Walsh March 23, 2003
    by Kevin Walsh March 23, 2003 0 comment

    In the 1950s, despite the considerable charms of Marilyn Monroe, Bettie Page, Jane Russell and so many other voluptuous stars in film and magazines, it was decided in the architectural community that…

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