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    MANHATTAN BRIDGE LAMP MUSEUM

    by Kevin Walsh January 9, 2024
    by Kevin Walsh January 9, 2024 7 comments

    THE grand Manhattan Bridge plaza, which fronts the Bowery at Canal Street, was completed in 1916 and is the design of John M. Carrere and Thomas Hastings, who also built the New York…

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    CANAL STREET, Chinatown

    by Kevin Walsh February 26, 2022
    by Kevin Walsh February 26, 2022 12 comments

    YOU cannot accuse the MTA of ignoring Canal Street. In previous eras, the IRT, BMT and IND have all constructed major stations at the east-west Manhattan route that traces the…

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    ONE MILE HOUSE, Bowery

    by Kevin Walsh February 6, 2019
    by Kevin Walsh February 6, 2019 3 comments

    The Boston Post Road, which followed an already established Native American trail, was established in 1673 as couriers bringing mail to different locales in the colonies traveled the trail, which…

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    MANHATTAN BRIDGE LAMP 1955

    by Kevin Walsh January 6, 2015
    by Kevin Walsh January 6, 2015 1 comment

    What a treat it was for the young webmaster in the Swinging Sixties, when a parent or parents and I would board an express train from Bay Ridge to travel…

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    OPEN HOUSE NEW YORK 2009

    by Kevin Walsh October 15, 2009
    by Kevin Walsh October 15, 2009 0 comment

    Unlike 2008, which was mostly overcast with a threat of showers both days, Open House New York weekend 2009 in NYC was spectacular weatherwise, with partly cloudy Saturday morning giving way…

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    MANHATTAN BRIDGE WALKWAY

    by Kevin Walsh July 6, 2001
    by Kevin Walsh July 6, 2001 1 comment

    Hart Crane never wrote poems about it, Sonny Rollins practiced sax on the Williamsburg, not the Manhattan, and Steve Brodie never jumped off of it. The Manhattan Bridge has always stood in the shadow of…

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    CRESCENT MOONS

    by Kevin Walsh March 23, 1998
    by Kevin Walsh March 23, 1998 0 comment

    There are still a few of them left and some are actually working. “Crescent moon” style luminaires, called “crescents” because of their shape, were in vogue from the mid-40s until…

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