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    BICKFORDS 2025

    by Kevin Walsh May 8, 2025
    by Kevin Walsh May 8, 2025 1 comment

    DON’T let the glassy exterior of the building on the NE corner of Lexington Avenue and East 45th fool you…this building, now home to Midtown Comics on the second floor,…

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  • Subways & Trains

    CORTLANDT STREET MOSAIC

    by Kevin Walsh May 1, 2025
    by Kevin Walsh May 1, 2025 8 comments

    FOR some reason, I failed to include this in the recent online zoom chat I gave regarding mosaic subway art. I’m unsure whether to post the rest in Forgotten NY,…

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  • One Shots

    METHODIST BOOK CONCERN, MADISON SQUARE

    by Kevin Walsh April 29, 2025
    by Kevin Walsh April 29, 2025 8 comments

    I didn’t realize it at the time, since the ground floor had been corrupted and “modernized” while I was working there, but 150 5th Avenue at W. 20th Street is…

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  • One Shots

    MACMILLAN ENTRANCE, 5TH AVENUE

    by Kevin Walsh April 28, 2025
    by Kevin Walsh April 28, 2025 2 comments

    YOGI Berra said it best, as he often did: “You can observe a lot by looking.” I must have used that quote in FNY before, but not lately. I was…

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  • Walks

    MACDOUGAL STREET 2025

    by Kevin Walsh April 27, 2025
    by Kevin Walsh April 27, 2025 7 comments

    WHILE looking around for a relatively short walk recently I settled on MacDougal Street, which many think of as the commercial north-south spine of Greenwich Village. Well, I thought it…

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  • Forgotten Slices

    SHOOTING SOCIETY, EAST VILLAGE

    by Kevin Walsh April 24, 2025
    by Kevin Walsh April 24, 2025 2 comments

    TUCKED away on St. Mark’s Place in the East Village is a reminder that it used to be NYC’s foremost German neighborhood. The German-American Shooting Society Clubhouse (Deutsch-Amerikanische Schuetzen Gesselschaft),…

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  • Street Lamps

    THE WEST SIDE CORVS

    by Kevin Walsh April 22, 2025
    by Kevin Walsh April 22, 2025 3 comments

    WHILE traipsing the northern leg of the High Line recently I noticed something interesting about the green Corvington streetlamps along the West Side Highway, officially called West Street here, but…

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  • One Shots

    BUTTERICK BUILDING, SOHO

    by Kevin Walsh April 21, 2025
    by Kevin Walsh April 21, 2025 5 comments

    THE Butterick Building at the NW corner of 6th Avenue and Spring was built in 1903, before 6th Avenue was built. Butterick is a sewing pattern company founded in 1863 by Ebenezer…

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  • One Shots

    GERMANIA ON THE BOWERY

    by Kevin Walsh April 16, 2025
    by Kevin Walsh April 16, 2025 1 comment

    THE old Germania Bank building, 190 Bowery at Spring Street, has become a mecca for graffiti birds; its exterior is faded, rusted, corroded glory, with Beaux-Arts hints of another age splattered…

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  • Cemeteries

    JAMES DAVIS, ST. PAUL’S CHURCHYARD

    by Kevin Walsh April 15, 2025
    by Kevin Walsh April 15, 2025 1 comment

    THE dead of winter is a natural time to commune with the dead and in late January I was stumbling around in St. Paul’s Churchyard, which I’ve neglected over the…

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  • One Shots

    CHRISTOPHER STREET…OR IS IT

    by Kevin Walsh April 14, 2025
    by Kevin Walsh April 14, 2025 5 comments

    VERY infrequently in New York City, you’ll find a Street With No Name. For many years, a roadway way down at the southwest end of Bay Ridge, along Dyker Beach…

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  • Alleys

    SYLVAN TERRACE, SUGAR HILL

    by Kevin Walsh April 1, 2025
    by Kevin Walsh April 1, 2025 4 comments

    I didn’t know it at the time, November 10th, 2019, but the last Forgotten NY tour in Sugar Hill in a packed schedule that year turned out to be the…

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