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    SLOANE BUILDING, PENN STATION

    by Kevin Walsh November 22, 2023
    by Kevin Walsh November 22, 2023 6 comments

    On a visit to see the remodeled Penn Station LIRR corridor in February 2023, I was meandering around the area when this tall brick building on West 34th just off…

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    BOWNE STATIONERS, SEAPORT

    by Kevin Walsh November 20, 2023
    by Kevin Walsh November 20, 2023 4 comments

    BOWNE & Co. Stationers at 211 Water Street is a working job print shop as well as a department of the South Street Seaport Museum. It was one of the…

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    LIBERTY’S FOUNDATION … FORT WOOD

    by Kevin Walsh November 18, 2023
    by Kevin Walsh November 18, 2023 15 comments

    Ed. note: I haven’t been to the Statue of Liberty since a Cub Scout trip in 1965, and I remember exactly nothing, but Sergey has been there a bit more…

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    LOFTS FOR RENT, PENN STATION

    by Kevin Walsh November 8, 2023
    by Kevin Walsh November 8, 2023 3 comments

    HERE’S an ancient painted ad that has been there for many years and went unnoticed by me until was walking east on West 33rd Street and noticed it via an…

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  • Neighborhoods

    RUSS & DAUGHTERS, HUDSON YARDS

    by Kevin Walsh November 7, 2023
    by Kevin Walsh November 7, 2023 9 comments

    No, the beloved deli “appetizing” institution, Russ & Daughters, is hardly “forgotten,” but this is also a signage and infrastructure blog, so I thought I’d point out something I found…

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    ESSEX EDUCATION

    by Kevin Walsh November 5, 2023
    by Kevin Walsh November 5, 2023 10 comments

    By SERGEY KADINSKYForgotten New York correspondent At the corner of Essex and Delancey Streets is a glass tower with signs for The Market Line, an underground food and retail complex…

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  • One Shots

    GOLDA MEIR SQUARE, GARMENT DISTRICT

    by Kevin Walsh November 2, 2023
    by Kevin Walsh November 2, 2023 6 comments

    A public space in front of 1411 Broadway at West 39th commemorates Golda Meir (1898-1978), the prime minister of Israel from 1971-1974. The prime minister was born in Kiev (now spelled…

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  • Neighborhoods

    STREETS OF BROOKLYN…AND MANHATTAN

    by Kevin Walsh October 31, 2023
    by Kevin Walsh October 31, 2023 4 comments

    SINCE Brooklyn and Manhattan do not share a land border, with the East River providing the undefended separation between the two boroughs, getting street scenes of the two boroughs in…

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  • One Shots

    MOUNT CARMEL PLACE, KIPS BAY

    by Kevin Walsh October 30, 2023
    by Kevin Walsh October 30, 2023 2 comments

    On the east side of Bellevue South Park between 1st and 2nd Avenues we find a short, two-block street called Mount Carmel Place. This street harks back to a Forgotten…

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    PEARLINE SOAP, UPPER EAST SIDE

    by Kevin Walsh October 28, 2023
    by Kevin Walsh October 28, 2023 6 comments

    A recent building teardown at 2nd Avenue and East 72nd Street revealed this partial ad for Pearline Soap. Though Pearline is represented in a great number of color advertising cards…

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    121 CHARLES STREET, GREENWICH VILLAGE

    by Kevin Walsh October 26, 2023
    by Kevin Walsh October 26, 2023 4 comments

    It appears as if 121 Charles, at the corner of Greenwich, has been here forever but it is actually a 1967 interloper. It is an 1809 (?) farmhouse moved here…

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    THE PATRIOT, TRIBECA, 2003-2022

    by Kevin Walsh October 25, 2023
    by Kevin Walsh October 25, 2023 13 comments

    THE Patriot, Chambers Street and Church Street, closed in mid-2022, likely a Covid-19 victim. It was a neighborhood bar cleverly disguised as a dive bar (unlike the nearby Raccoon Lodge…

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