JUST when it started to get hot in June, I wrapped up my spring 2022 Lower East Side meanderings with a walk east on Kenmare and Delancey Streets. Kenmare Street…
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THE original name of St. Augustine’s Episcopal Chapel at #290 Henry near Jackson Street on the Lower East Side was All Saints Free Church, which is still carved over the…
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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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THERE are some spots in Manhattan in which entire blocks of streets have been lost in the name of urban renewal or urban planning. One such area was a warren…
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FOR reasons that will become apparent, I always had something of an affinity for Market Street, which sidles up to the Manhattan Bridge’s south side and runs for a few…
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In no other Manhattan neighborhood has the street map changed more greatly over the decades than the Lower East Side, more specifically the easternmost section known as Corlears Hook, where…
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THE mission was simple. To walk the entire length of Chrystie Street from Canal to Houston, and then 2nd Avenue as far north as I pleased, the reason being that…
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TUCKED away beside the Manhattan Bridge, predating it by a century or more, was a one-lane alley called Birmingham Street, running between Henry and Madison Street east of Market Street.…
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SEVERAL buildings in the Lower East Side bear Stars of David. The Lower East Side was originally known as Kleindeutschland, or “Little Germany.” After the General Slocum steamboat disaster in…
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AFTER nearly a decade when it was obscured by construction netting and scaffolding, the 1912 Jarmulowsky’s Bank building, a “supertall” for its time, has completed a $190M restoration and has…
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My mission was simple in March 2022: walk east on Stanton from the Bowery until it reaches Pitt, then south a block, then west on Rivington back to the Bowery.…
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By SERGEY KADINSKYForgotten New York correspondent MORE than two decades have passed since Kevin Walsh launched Forgotten-NY and among the neighborhoods that continues to reveal fascinating details of city history…