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    GRAND SALOON, Madison Square

    by Kevin Walsh July 20, 2022
    by Kevin Walsh July 20, 2022 3 comments

    PERHAPS McSorley’s, Fanelli’s, the Old Town Bar, and the Ear Inn are more chronicled in the city’s lore and literature (at least they have in Forgotten NY) , but the Grand…

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  • One Shots

    WHO IS THAT GUY? Madison Square

    by Kevin Walsh August 17, 2021
    by Kevin Walsh August 17, 2021 2 comments

    “MOVIE Mike” Olshan, who has been with me on a number of Forgotten New York tours, sent me this detail at #315 Park Avenue South, at the southeast corner of…

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  • FNY CROSSTOWN

    25th STREET

    by Kevin Walsh July 19, 2020
    by Kevin Walsh July 19, 2020 4 comments

    It’s time for another entry in FNY’s Cross Streets of NYC series…  I’ve done them piecemeal in the past, but I’ve already posted 20th Street, 22nd Street, 17th Street, 10th Street, 6th Street and…

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  • Walks

    CATCHING 22

    by Kevin Walsh March 23, 2020
    by Kevin Walsh March 23, 2020 7 comments

    Before the Great Infection, I spent a number of Saturdays (and some Sundays too) crisscrossing Manhattan via its numbered streets. Over the years, I’ve done this quite a few times…

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  • One Shots

    WILLIAM H. SEWARD, MADISON SQUARE

    by Kevin Walsh February 4, 2020
    by Kevin Walsh February 4, 2020 4 comments

    The William H. Seward monument in Madison Square at the corner of 5th Avenue and East 23rd Street has been a meeting place for a number of Forgotten NY tours…

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  • Street Scenes

    SNAPSHOTS FROM THE WPA GUIDE

    by Kevin Walsh April 29, 2019
    by Kevin Walsh April 29, 2019 10 comments

    The Works Progress Administration Guide to NYC is a dense, 700-page volume with tightly-spaced type in a small but readable Garamond font, with a generous use of maps, art and…

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  • One ShotsStreet Lamps

    LOST TWIN, MADISON SQUARE

    by Kevin Walsh March 1, 2019
    by Kevin Walsh March 1, 2019 2 comments

    I got this image on an absolute gem of a day in 2000, on the SW corner of 5th Avenue and 23rd Street, opposite Madison Square. It shows a classic…

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  • One Shots

    SIDEWALK CLOCK, Madison Square

    by Kevin Walsh June 7, 2018
    by Kevin Walsh June 7, 2018 1 comment

    This gilded, ornate street clock is perhaps the most magnificent still existing in New York City. It was installed in 1909, at the same time 200 5th Avenue, in front of…

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  • FNY CROSSTOWN

    23rd STREET and Midtown South

    by Kevin Walsh April 9, 2017
    by Kevin Walsh April 9, 2017 16 comments

    In early February I was tired of the routine and desired a rove. It occurred to me I hadn’t had one of my favorite treats lately, one of the burritos…

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  • One Shots

    FLATIRON COWCATCHER, MADISON SQUARE

    by Kevin Walsh October 6, 2016
    by Kevin Walsh October 6, 2016 0 comment

    In August and September 2013 I worked in the Madison Square area, and so got a daily look at the Flatiron Building, one of the first skyscrapers built with an…

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  • One Shots

    SERBIAN ORTHODOX CATHEDRAL OF. ST. SAVA, Madison Square

    by Kevin Walsh May 11, 2016
    by Kevin Walsh May 11, 2016 0 comment

    The Serbian Orthodox Cathedral Church of St. Sava was constructed  on West 25th just west of Broadway as a northern branch of Trinity Church between 1850-1855 and is yet another…

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  • One Shots

    LADIES OF MADISON SQUARE

    by Kevin Walsh October 12, 2015
    by Kevin Walsh October 12, 2015 3 comments

    Doctor Thomas Addis Emmet was quite a man of letters in the late 19th and early 20th Century — a gynecologist by trade, he was a book collector and a…

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