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    STANTON STREET SHUL

    by Kevin Walsh March 6, 2025
    by Kevin Walsh March 6, 2025 3 comments

    In the winter of 2024-2025 I covered a great deal of the Lower East Side and East Village, on Avenues A through D. Still plagued by age-related back issues, I…

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    DIVISION STREET POWERHOUSE

    by Kevin Walsh March 5, 2025
    by Kevin Walsh March 5, 2025 5 comments

    NEW YORK CITY once had four main trunk elevated lines: the 2nd, 3rd, 6th and 9th Avenue Els. Of these, the Third Avenue gets the most of meager press attention…

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  • Walks

    FORSYTH FORESIGHT

    by Kevin Walsh February 23, 2025
    by Kevin Walsh February 23, 2025 5 comments

    THIS week I’m continuing with explorations of north-south streets in Chinatown, Little Italy and the Lower East Side. Having already covered Christie Street and Eldridge Street, I’ll complete the trio…

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    VLADIMIR LENIN, LOWER EAST SIDE

    by Kevin Walsh February 6, 2025
    by Kevin Walsh February 6, 2025 8 comments

    At #178 Norfolk Street south of East Houston, keep looking up for a triumphant statue of Vladimir Ilyich Lenin, the chief architect of the Soviet state that ruled much of eastern…

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  • Forgotten Slices

    SORROWS IN THE EAST

    by Kevin Walsh February 4, 2025
    by Kevin Walsh February 4, 2025 4 comments

    In recent Lower East Side wanderings I came once again to one of NYC’s best Roman Catholic mini-cities, way over in the far east of the Lower East, at Pitt…

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  • Walks

    AVENUE C 2025

    by Kevin Walsh February 2, 2025
    by Kevin Walsh February 2, 2025 6 comments

    Continued from Avenue B FROM late 2024-early 2025, I decided to walk Manhattan’s lettered avenues from A to D (Brooklyn has the full panoply, with a few exceptions, from A…

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  • One Shots

    DIVISION STREET LOWER EAST SIDE

    by Kevin Walsh January 1, 2025
    by Kevin Walsh January 1, 2025 3 comments

    In 2009, Forgotten New York walked Division Street, one of Manhattan’s most unremarked-on thoroughfares. It hasn’t gotten much respect over the centuries and decades, either — it’s reduced to less…

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  • Forgotten SlicesSigns

    ELDRIDGE MOVIE SET

    by Kevin Walsh December 28, 2024
    by Kevin Walsh December 28, 2024 4 comments

    What we’re gonna do right here is go back, way back, back into time, as Sergey visits a movie set starring the hottest name in the business in December 2024,…

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  • Neighborhoods

    NEW SEAPORT-LOWER EAST SIDE QUICK WALK

    by Kevin Walsh June 23, 2024
    by Kevin Walsh June 23, 2024 14 comments

    FEBRUARY 18, 2024 was actually looking wintery around town, as we had just wrapped up a couple of snowfalls, rare in NYC winters of late, and it was a sunny,…

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  • One Shots

    CHERRY STREET ARCH

    by Kevin Walsh June 20, 2024
    by Kevin Walsh June 20, 2024 10 comments

    I have always been fascinated by the massive masonry arches (that cover a steel framework) that pop up around town. Probably the greatest concentration is in Astoria, where a series…

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  • One Shots

    MADISON AND SCAMMEL, 1941

    by Kevin Walsh March 25, 2024
    by Kevin Walsh March 25, 2024 5 comments

    TIME once again to jump into the H.G. Wells Time Machine and head for some time other than now. This contraption is hard to keep around my apartment, especially with…

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  • Alleys

    ONE AND DONE, MANHATTAN, PART TWO

    by Kevin Walsh February 18, 2024
    by Kevin Walsh February 18, 2024 10 comments

    Continued from Part 1 I still have grand dreams and ambitions. Publish a book and own my own place? Done years ago. Marriage? Make millions? Let’s not get crazy. However,…

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