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  • One Shots

    STRAUS SQUARE, LOWER EAST SIDE

    by Kevin Walsh February 15, 2023
    by Kevin Walsh February 15, 2023 3 comments

    I often find myself in Straus Square, an overlooked little triangle formed by Rutgers Street, Canal Street and East Broadway. Here, two streets are generated: Canal, which roars west to…

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  • One Shots

    WHO IS THAT GUY? AL SMITH, Lower East Side

    by Kevin Walsh September 20, 2022
    by Kevin Walsh September 20, 2022 7 comments

    THE Al Smith Houses were built in 1953. Its current boundaries are Madison Street, Catherine Street, St, James Place (formerly New Bowery) and Robert Wagner Senior Place. The project was…

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  • Walks

    WALKING KENMARE

    by Kevin Walsh July 31, 2022
    by Kevin Walsh July 31, 2022 18 comments

    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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  • One Shots

    ST. AUGUSTINE’S, Lower East Side

    by Kevin Walsh June 27, 2022
    by Kevin Walsh June 27, 2022 3 comments

    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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  • FNY CROSSTOWN

    GRAND STREET, Soho-Chinatown, Part 2

    by Kevin Walsh June 26, 2022
    by Kevin Walsh June 26, 2022 12 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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  • Street Necrology

    LOST STREETS OF THE EAST

    by Kevin Walsh June 12, 2022
    by Kevin Walsh June 12, 2022 9 comments

    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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  • Forgotten Slices

    MARKET STREET, Two Bridges

    by Kevin Walsh May 22, 2022
    by Kevin Walsh May 22, 2022 5 comments

    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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  • Alleys

    RACHEL LANE, Lower East Side

    by Kevin Walsh May 21, 2022
    by Kevin Walsh May 21, 2022 11 comments

    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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  • Walks

    CHRYSTIE STREET-2ND AVENUE

    by Kevin Walsh May 15, 2022
    by Kevin Walsh May 15, 2022 7 comments

    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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  • Street Necrology

    BIRMINGHAM STREET

    by Kevin Walsh May 11, 2022
    by Kevin Walsh May 11, 2022 2 comments

    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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  • One Shots

    STARRED LOCATIONS, Lower East Side

    by Kevin Walsh May 10, 2022
    by Kevin Walsh May 10, 2022 3 comments

    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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  • One Shots

    JARMULOWSKY’S BANK, Lower East Side

    by Kevin Walsh May 9, 2022
    by Kevin Walsh May 9, 2022 2 comments

    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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