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    MYSTERY POLE, Washington Heights

    by Kevin Walsh January 18, 2023
    by Kevin Walsh January 18, 2023 10 comments

    In Manhattan, there are a pair of “mystery poles” that continue to flummox and vex me, as no satisfactory identification of their purpose seems imminent. This one can be found…

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    BROAD AND WATER

    by Kevin Walsh January 16, 2023
    by Kevin Walsh January 16, 2023 6 comments

    I don’t have too much to say about this 5-story walkup building at #105 Broad Street, corner of Water, in the Financial District except to say it’s unusual for the…

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  • Forgotten Slices

    FARLEY ABIDES AT THE MOYNIHAN

    by Kevin Walsh January 8, 2023
    by Kevin Walsh January 8, 2023 10 comments

    THE McKim, Mead and White architectural firm designed the enormous former James Farley post office, which opened in 1913, as a companion to Pennsylvania Station, just across 8th Avenue. A…

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  • Forgotten Slices

    CHITTENDEN AVENUE, Washington Heights

    by Kevin Walsh January 5, 2023
    by Kevin Walsh January 5, 2023 5 comments

    THE shortest north-south “Avenue” in Manhattan runs for one short block between West 186th and 187th Streets one block west of Cabrini Boulevard. It could better be classified as a…

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  • One Shots

    FORT TRYON ARCH

    by Kevin Walsh January 2, 2023
    by Kevin Walsh January 2, 2023 5 comments

    THOUGH NYC divested itself of most of its colonial-era “royal” names after defeating the British in the Revolutionary War, there are a few that doggedly hang on, sich as Prince Street…

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  • Walks

    BATTERY TO TRIBECA

    by Kevin Walsh January 1, 2023
    by Kevin Walsh January 1, 2023 4 comments

    UNFORTUNATELY, though I feel fine in general, I am unable to walk for any great distance without pain and discomfort (I’d rather not provide any more detail) and so, I’ll…

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  • One Shots

    FRANZ SIGEL, Upper West Side

    by Kevin Walsh December 24, 2022
    by Kevin Walsh December 24, 2022 5 comments

    MAJOR General Franz Sigel (1824-1902) overlooks Riverside Drive at West 106th Street. Sigel, born in Baden, Germany, served in the German military until 1852, when he emigrated to the US,…

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    COOGAN, UPTOWN AND DOWNTOWN

    by Kevin Walsh December 20, 2022
    by Kevin Walsh December 20, 2022 2 comments

    COOGAN’S Bluff is the cliff leading down to the Harlem River from Edgecombe Avenue. It used to overlook the Polo Grounds, the ballpark home of the New York Giants, and…

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  • One Shots

    K STANDS FOR EHRICH

    by Kevin Walsh December 13, 2022
    by Kevin Walsh December 13, 2022 0 comment

    At 22nd and 6th Avenue in Chelsea, northwest corner, is the former Ehrich Brothers Emporium, constructed in 1889, and currently home to a Burlington Coat Factory on the ground floor.…

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  • Roads

    MANHATTAN ON THE MARGINS

    by Kevin Walsh December 10, 2022
    by Kevin Walsh December 10, 2022 13 comments

    As many Forgotten Fans know, I am a voracious map reader. I consult old maps mostly online these days, but I have dozens, perhaps a hundred or two, ancient street…

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  • Signs

    RUDY’S, Hell’s Kitchen

    by Kevin Walsh December 8, 2022
    by Kevin Walsh December 8, 2022 12 comments

    I am sure a number of Forgotten Fans will have stories to tell about Rudy’s, a mainstay for decades in Hell’s Kitchen on 9th Avenue north of West 44th Street.…

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  • One Shots

    WALLOONS OF THE BATTERY

    by Kevin Walsh November 30, 2022
    by Kevin Walsh November 30, 2022 4 comments

    THE Walloons were Protestants from what is now Belgium who had fled to Holland to escape religious oppression from the Catholic majority, but also faced the same trouble in the…

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