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    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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    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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    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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  • Alleys

    ONE AND DONE, PART ONE

    by Kevin Walsh February 11, 2024
    by Kevin Walsh February 11, 2024 22 comments

    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, it popped into my…

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  • Forgotten Slices

    ESSEX EDUCATION

    by Kevin Walsh November 5, 2023
    by Kevin Walsh November 5, 2023 10 comments

    By SERGEY KADINSKYForgotten New York correspondent At the corner of Essex and Delancey Streets is a glass tower with signs for The Market Line, an underground food and retail complex…

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  • Neighborhoods

    STREETS OF BROOKLYN…AND MANHATTAN

    by Kevin Walsh October 31, 2023
    by Kevin Walsh October 31, 2023 4 comments

    SINCE Brooklyn and Manhattan do not share a land border, with the East River providing the undefended separation between the two boroughs, getting street scenes of the two boroughs in…

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  • Trolleys

    ESSEX STREET TROLLEY TERMINAL

    by Kevin Walsh October 4, 2023
    by Kevin Walsh October 4, 2023 7 comments

    A long-abandoned trolley terminal has been hiding in plain sight at the eastbound platform of the Essex Street Station serving J and M trains on the Nassau Street BMT plying…

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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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