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    ONE AND DONE, MANHATTAN, PART 3

    by Kevin Walsh February 25, 2024
    by Kevin Walsh February 25, 2024 14 comments

    Continued from Part 2 GETTING tired of the One and Done series yet? I’m not, I’m having fun with it. My thinking is I’ll wrap up Manhattan, then wait a…

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  • Cemeteries

    11TH STREET CATHOLIC CEMETERY, EAST VILLAGE

    by Kevin Walsh February 24, 2024
    by Kevin Walsh February 24, 2024 2 comments

    THE 2nd Shearith Israel Cemetery on West 11th Street near 6th Avenue (described on this FNY page) isn’t the only “deactivated” cemetery on 11th Street. I recently found out about…

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  • Neighborhoods

    A LOOK AT GRAND CENTRAL MADISON

    by Kevin Walsh February 22, 2024
    by Kevin Walsh February 22, 2024 14 comments

    After 25 years now it’s obvious that Forgotten New York, besides a chronicler of a NYC the guidebooks won’t tell you about, is also enthusiastic about NYC’s infrastructure. To that…

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  • Street Lamps

    DOUBLE DESKEY, MIDTOWN

    by Kevin Walsh February 20, 2024
    by Kevin Walsh February 20, 2024 2 comments

    PERIODICALLY, I post about the dwindling number of twin 5th Avenue Donald Deskey-designed lampposts; I did so in 2013 and 2016, and in the former year I listed the locations…

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  • Signs

    PHIL’S STATIONERY, MIDTOWN

    by Kevin Walsh February 19, 2024
    by Kevin Walsh February 19, 2024 7 comments

    I haven’t mentioned it often but I’m something of a stationery store aficionado. When I worked at Photo-Lettering, NYC’s biggest typesetting shop in the 1980s as a proofreader, we dealt with…

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  • One Shots

    THE NORTH RIVER

    by Kevin Walsh February 16, 2024
    by Kevin Walsh February 16, 2024 12 comments

    YOU never know what you’re going to find down by the water, which is why I am happy to have been born and raised in a city by the water.…

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  • Neighborhoods

    DAGGER JOHN, LITTLE ITALY

    by Kevin Walsh February 14, 2024
    by Kevin Walsh February 14, 2024 5 comments

    On this Ash Wednesday (and St. Valentine’s Day), let’s visit one of NYC’s oldest Catholic churches at Mulberry and Prince Streets in Little Italy. Old St. Patrick’s is called “old”…

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  • SignsSubways & Trains

    GRAND CENTRAL MADISON QUOTES

    by Kevin Walsh February 13, 2024
    by Kevin Walsh February 13, 2024 6 comments

    GRAND Central Madison, the new Long Island Rail Road terminal beneath the main terminal serving Metro-North rains, opened in early 2023 after about 20 years of construction. It’s truly vast,…

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  • One Shots

    CLEVELAND PLACE, LITTLE ITALY

    by Kevin Walsh February 12, 2024
    by Kevin Walsh February 12, 2024 4 comments

    LOOKING south on Cleveland Place from Kenmare Street. Cleveland Place was renamed from Marion Street to honor President Grover Cleveland (1837-1908), who had been Governor of NYS, toward the domed former NYPD…

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  • Alleys

    ONE AND DONE, PART ONE

    by Kevin Walsh February 11, 2024
    by Kevin Walsh February 11, 2024 22 comments

    I still have grand dreams and ambitions. Publish a book and own my own place? Done years ago. Marriage? Make millions? Let’s not get crazy. However, it popped into my…

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  • One Shots

    SO LONG VILLAGE CIGARS

    by Kevin Walsh February 8, 2024
    by Kevin Walsh February 8, 2024 6 comments

    No, the scene shown here is hardly Forgotten–it’s iconic and emblematic of the Village and has been seen by millions, New York natives and visitors alike. It does have its…

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  • Out of Town

    GOLD STREET

    by Kevin Walsh February 6, 2024
    by Kevin Walsh February 6, 2024 2 comments

    TWO decades ago while meandering about  in the rain down Maiden Lane in the eastern Financial District downtown in May 2003 I came across an unmarked street issuing north. I ascertained…

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