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    GRAND STREET, Soho-Chinatown, Part 2

    by Kevin Walsh June 26, 2022
    by Kevin Walsh June 26, 2022 11 comments

    Continued from Part 1 In the late winters and springs of 2021-2022 I found I was walking through Soho and its bordering neighborhoods, Chinatown and the Lower East Side. Already,…

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  • One ShotsSigns

    GOING ROGUE, Little Italy

    by Kevin Walsh March 28, 2022
    by Kevin Walsh March 28, 2022 4 comments

    ROGUE is a vintage clothing store on Stanton Street between the Bowery and Chrystie Street. I didn’t stop in, I don’t haunt these kind of places (previously I bought all…

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    HESTER STREET, Chinatown-Little Italy

    by Kevin Walsh June 27, 2021
    by Kevin Walsh June 27, 2021 13 comments

    HESTER is name not commonly given to girls anymore, but it has a lengthy history; it’s a variant of the Hebrew name Esther, which translates to “star.” Many Hesters have…

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  • FNY CROSSTOWN

    SPRING STREET

    by Kevin Walsh May 23, 2021
    by Kevin Walsh May 23, 2021 10 comments

    It’s time for another entry in FNY’s Cross Streets of NYC series! I have been walking Manhattan’s numbered streets from east to west or vice versa so compulsively, I’ve decided…

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  • Walks

    BAXTER STREET, Little Italy

    by Kevin Walsh June 16, 2019
    by Kevin Walsh June 16, 2019 1 comment

    Baxter Street begins at NYC’s more infamous precincts (for two separate reasons over the years) and runs generally north and northwest to Grand, where it ends at the old but…

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  • Walks

    MULBERRY STREET, Little Italy

    by Kevin Walsh December 16, 2018
    by Kevin Walsh December 16, 2018 17 comments

    In deep and dark November I took a walk straight up Mulberry Street for its entire length, which I had never previously done. It skirts the west edge of Chinatown and cleaves…

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  • One ShotsSigns

    ANTHONY LIQUORS, Little Italy

    by Kevin Walsh March 8, 2016
    by Kevin Walsh March 8, 2016 3 comments

    I did a presentation on Monday, March 7, 2016 in Astoria about Travis, Staten Island, a place formerly known as Linoleumville, where between 1873 and 1931 there was a large…

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  • One Shots

    BOWERY BEAT GOES ON

    by Kevin Walsh May 29, 2015
    by Kevin Walsh May 29, 2015 1 comment

    As early as 2005, I was chronicling the changing Bowery in Forgotten New York and was lamenting the imminent demise of McGurk’s Suicide Hall just north of East Houston Street.…

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  • Eats

    PUGLIA, Little Italy

    by Kevin Walsh December 27, 2014
    by Kevin Walsh December 27, 2014 9 comments

      By MICHAEL CASTELROSO Special to Forgotten New York The original Puglia, 189 Hester Street, Little Italy, was opened at 117 Mott Street by Gregorio Garofalo in 1919.  Garofalo, an…

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  • One ShotsStreet Lamps

    CENTRE CROOK, Little Italy

    by Kevin Walsh November 27, 2014
    by Kevin Walsh November 27, 2014 2 comments

    I’m thankful that a small number of “original” bishop crook lamps from the early 20th Century have been allowed to stand (mostly by default, but now most are landmarked) like…

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  • AlleysForgotten Slices

    CENTRE MARKET PLACE, Little Italy

    by Kevin Walsh July 23, 2014
    by Kevin Walsh July 23, 2014 17 comments

    Centre Market Place is a one-block street in Manhattan’s Little Italy. It runs between Grand and Broome Street on the eastern end of the 1905  former NYPD Headquarters. When I…

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  • Walks

    ELIZABETH STREET, Chinatown–SoHo

    by Kevin Walsh September 22, 2013
    by Kevin Walsh September 22, 2013 23 comments

    The best Forgotten New York walks encompass worlds. A recent walk I did in a loop around northeast Staten Island brought me from the million-dollar mansions surrounding hidden lakes and…

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