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    HARLEM COURTHOUSE

    by Kevin Walsh December 4, 2019
    by Kevin Walsh December 4, 2019 1 comment

    Walk east a couple of blocks on East 121st from Mount Morris Park — between Lexington and 3rd Avenue — and you will find a majestic, Gothic and Romanesque building…

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    3rd AVENUE AD MYSTERIES

    by Kevin Walsh December 1, 2019
    by Kevin Walsh December 1, 2019 4 comments

    Staggering around Harlem on a recent Saturday, I gravitated to 3rd Avenue, which I hadn’t invaded recently. Mindful of the fact that 3rd Avenue had an elevated train rumbling over…

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  • One ShotsSubways & Trains

    OLD PENN STATION IN VIEW

    by Kevin Walsh November 30, 2019
    by Kevin Walsh November 30, 2019 2 comments

    Some of the original Penn Station has been in view from the south end of the southbound local IRT station serving the #1 train, as a passageway constructed (likely by…

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    GRISTEDE’S, Harlem, 1940

    by Kevin Walsh November 27, 2019
    by Kevin Walsh November 27, 2019 7 comments

    I was riffling through Municipal Archives 1940 Manhattan photos on 3rd Avenue recently (I do it so you don’t have to) when I happened upon a photo of this Gristede’s…

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  • One ShotsStreet Lamps

    PIER 57, Chelsea

    by Kevin Walsh November 21, 2019
    by Kevin Walsh November 21, 2019 3 comments

    Pier 57 is a handsome steel and masonry structure at 10th Avenue and West 15th Street, constructed from 1950-54 as a headhouse for shipping lines. The structure is supported on…

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    SCRIBNER’S, Hell’s Kitchen

    by Kevin Walsh November 19, 2019
    by Kevin Walsh November 19, 2019 0 comment

    Strolling down 9th Avenue after work during the summer, high above 9th Avenue and W. 44th I spotted a faded sign: “Scribner’s.” It’s atop a brick building at 311 W. 43rd Street that…

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  • One ShotsSigns

    HUGH CAREY TUNNEL SIGN, Financial District

    by Kevin Walsh November 14, 2019
    by Kevin Walsh November 14, 2019 6 comments

    Hugh L. Carey (1919-2011) was the formidably sideburned NY State Governor from 1975 to 1982; before that, the World War II veteran served as a US Representative from NY State…

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  • Forgotten Slices

    CHUMLEY’S 2006

    by Kevin Walsh November 9, 2019
    by Kevin Walsh November 9, 2019 3 comments

    A piece this week in Untapped Cities about Chumley’s, the “secret speakeasy” on Bedford Street in Greenwich Village that recently reopened after 10 years of renovations got me thinking about…

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  • One ShotsSignsSubways & Trains

    BROADWAY POLES

    by Kevin Walsh November 8, 2019
    by Kevin Walsh November 8, 2019 2 comments

    Since May I have spent not a little time on Broadway between Times Square and Columbus Circle for a freelance job, noticing the infrastructure. This stretch of Broadway features the…

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  • One Shots

    HASWELL GREEN’S, Theater District

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

    A tavern at 240 West 52nd Street between 8th Avenue and Broadway bears the name of one of the architects of Greater New York, though few patrons may recognize him.…

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  • Street Necrology

    STRANGE STREET NAMES OF THE PAST

    by Kevin Walsh November 5, 2019
    by Kevin Walsh November 5, 2019 12 comments

    While poring through old maps and street directories ( I do it so you don’t have to) I occasionally see some great old street names that I wish had been…

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  • One ShotsSigns

    GRINGER HARDWARE, East Village

    by Kevin Walsh October 23, 2019
    by Kevin Walsh October 23, 2019 0 comment

    Philip Gringer established a small storefront hardware store at #29 1st Avenue, between East 1st and 2nd Streets, in 1918. The store was a success, and now the floor space…

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