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    AVENUE OF THE FINEST, Civic Center

    by Kevin Walsh May 18, 2022
    by Kevin Walsh May 18, 2022 3 comments

    AVENUE of the Finest runs for one block between Madison and Pearl Streets along Murray Bergtraum High School and a huge Verizon tower that has been described as NYC’s ugliest…

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  • Walks

    CHRYSTIE STREET-2ND AVENUE

    by Kevin Walsh May 15, 2022
    by Kevin Walsh May 15, 2022 7 comments

    THE mission was simple. To walk the entire length of Chrystie Street from Canal to Houston, and then 2nd Avenue as far north as I pleased, the reason being that…

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  • Street Necrology

    BIRMINGHAM STREET

    by Kevin Walsh May 11, 2022
    by Kevin Walsh May 11, 2022 2 comments

    TUCKED away beside the Manhattan Bridge, predating it by a century or more, was a one-lane alley called Birmingham Street, running between Henry and Madison Street east of Market Street.…

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  • One Shots

    STARRED LOCATIONS, Lower East Side

    by Kevin Walsh May 10, 2022
    by Kevin Walsh May 10, 2022 3 comments

    SEVERAL buildings in the Lower East Side bear Stars of David. The Lower East Side was originally known as Kleindeutschland, or “Little Germany.” After the General Slocum steamboat disaster in…

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  • One Shots

    JARMULOWSKY’S BANK, Lower East Side

    by Kevin Walsh May 9, 2022
    by Kevin Walsh May 9, 2022 2 comments

    AFTER nearly a decade when it was obscured by construction netting and scaffolding, the 1912 Jarmulowsky’s Bank building, a “supertall” for its time, has completed a $190M restoration and has…

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  • One Shots

    MOTHER CABRINI WAY, Gramercy Park

    by Kevin Walsh May 7, 2022
    by Kevin Walsh May 7, 2022 3 comments

    I’VE talked about Frances Xavier Cabrini before, on the Boulevard that bears her name way uptown in Washington Heights. Well, if George Washington and Abraham Lincoln, as well as a…

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  • Subways & Trains

    WORTH STREET STATION, Civic Center

    by Kevin Walsh May 5, 2022
    by Kevin Walsh May 5, 2022 6 comments

    WHEN Interborough Rapid Transit (IRT) constructed the original NYC subway from City Hall to 145th Street and Broadway in 1904, creating the Original 28 Stations, some of the stations have…

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  • Signs

    REX COLE, East Village

    by Kevin Walsh May 4, 2022
    by Kevin Walsh May 4, 2022 2 comments

    I have posted about Rex Cole before, but I’m fascinated with these signs, and I seem to find new ones several times per year. As I was hesitatingly scuttling up…

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  • One Shots

    DAILY NEWS BUILDING, Midtown

    by Kevin Walsh April 29, 2022
    by Kevin Walsh April 29, 2022 9 comments

    THE New York Daily News has been published since 1919. I am no longer a daily reader, but I reveled in its sports section in the 1960s and 1970s, with…

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  • One Shots

    THAT ELUSIVE 200

    by Kevin Walsh April 27, 2022
    by Kevin Walsh April 27, 2022 6 comments

    FOR an unknown reason, New York City has been cagy about assigning a 200th Street. In Inwood, one of the main east-west streets is Dyckman, which runs from the Hudson…

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  • One Shots

    ANDREW’S COFFEE SHOP, Midtown

    by Kevin Walsh April 23, 2022
    by Kevin Walsh April 23, 2022 6 comments

    YES, Andrews Coffee Shop is familiar to office workers in the Penn Station area, on 7th Avenue and West 35th. But indulge me, as it is part of my past…

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  • Alleys

    ST. JOHN’S LANE, Tribeca

    by Kevin Walsh April 18, 2022
    by Kevin Walsh April 18, 2022 3 comments

    THE ceramic plaque at the Canal Street station on the #1 train, the 7th Avenue line, depicts a church with a towering spire, flanked by ample vegetation. Neither the church that…

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