I should really start paying more attention to Allen Street. The center median-ed Lower East Side route runs north from Division and Pike Streets to East Houston and 1st Avenue.…
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Continued from Part 1 I realized in late winter 2019 that I had never walked Canal Street from SoHo all the way east to where it ends at East Broadway,…
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Years ago, soon after beginning Forgotten NY, I compiled a far-from-comprehensive list of lost streets in lower Manhattan. I had a lot of fun doing it, though I’m not as…
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I haven’t paid enough attention to East Broadway in my wanderings, so I hope to rectify the situation as we edge into 2019. I was on the thoroughfare a few…
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Continued from Part 2 In June 2018, I walked the north-south streets of the Lower East Side from Orchard east to Pitt between Houston and East Broadway/Grand/Delancey and noticing what…
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Continued from Part 1 In June 2018, I walked the north-south streets of the Lower East Side from Orchard east to Pitt between Houston and East Broadway/Grand/Delancey and noticing what…
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The Lower East Side of Manhattan, roughly defined by East Houston Street on the north, the East River on the east and south, and by the Manhattan Bridge and the…
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By GARY FONVILLE Forgotten NY correspondent As I often do, I come across material for FNY by happenstance. I had just exited the Manhattan Bridge, upper level, made a right…
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By SERGEY KADINSKY Forgotten NY correspondent Having documented the abandoned Dr. Simon Baruch Public Bath as part of the page on East River Park, I went a mile to the…
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This underwear wholesaler/retailer at 339 Grand Street and Ludlow not only has its 1940s painted sidewalk sign still intact, albeit peeling just a bit by now, but the building in which…
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Inscribed with the words “Our Strength Is Our Heritage, Our Heritage Is Our Life” this mural at 232 East Broadway east of Clinton Street depicted major events in Jewish history…
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I first saw Freeman Alley on a map in the 1980s, when I went to the Rand McNally Map Store on East 53rd Street just east of 5th Avenue and…