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    IND SUBWAY ENTRANCE LAMPS, 81ST STREET

    by Kevin Walsh May 31, 2023
    by Kevin Walsh May 31, 2023 3 comments

    THOUGH Teddy Roosevelt has left the entrance of the Museum of Natural History on Central Park West (he is going to the Theodore Roosevelt Presidential Library in Medora, ND in…

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  • Walks

    CENTRAL PARK NORTH

    by Kevin Walsh May 28, 2023
    by Kevin Walsh May 28, 2023 1 comment

    Something a little unusual today: an FNY page composed in 2010 that somehow was left off the two site reconstructions done in 2011 and 2019. Some of this info may…

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  • Alleys

    STABLE COURT, COOPER SQUARE

    by Kevin Walsh May 27, 2023
    by Kevin Walsh May 27, 2023 3 comments

    UNMARKED on street maps and un-signed by the Department of Transportation, Stable Court is a crack of pavement between Two Cooper Square, an upscale highrise with a rooftop pool (a…

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  • One Shots

    HAUGHWOUT BUILDING, SOHO

    by Kevin Walsh May 19, 2023
    by Kevin Walsh May 19, 2023 6 comments

    HERE’S 488 Broadway at Broome Street, the Haughwout (pronounced HA-wout) Building. Some architectural experts call it the most beautiful castiron building in NYC. It has competition there especially in Soho, but…

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  • Roads

    WHERE IT ALL BEGINS…

    by Kevin Walsh May 14, 2023
    by Kevin Walsh May 14, 2023 12 comments

    BEGINNING a series here that I will return to from time to time about where NYC’s longest roads originate. My aim here is to show the “sources” of roads and…

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  • One Shots

    GENERAL WORTH, MADISON SQUARE

    by Kevin Walsh May 13, 2023
    by Kevin Walsh May 13, 2023 5 comments

    THE General William Jenkins Worth Monument, on the triangle formed by Broadway, 5th Avenue, and 25th Street, not only is a memorial to the general (1794-1849), but is also his…

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  • One Shots

    HOLLEY HOLY, WASHINGTON SQUARE

    by Kevin Walsh May 2, 2023
    by Kevin Walsh May 2, 2023 9 comments

    WHO is that guy? Two memorials to historic figures stand in WSP, one to Giuseppe Garibaldi, a founder of the united Italy, and the lesser-known 1889 Alexander Lyman Holley Memorial, featuring…

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  • Ads

    GIMBELS PAINTED SIGN, Midtown

    by Kevin Walsh April 28, 2023
    by Kevin Walsh April 28, 2023 12 comments

    BESIDES 100 West 33rd Street itself, which faces 6th Avenue between West 32nd and West 33rd Street, the only tangible remnant of the Gimbel Brothers Department Store, known as Gimbels,…

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  • Subways & Trains

    66TH STREET STATION

    by Kevin Walsh April 13, 2023
    by Kevin Walsh April 13, 2023 17 comments

    Of the station renovations along the IRT Broadway Line done in the late 1990s and early 2000s my favorite just may be the 66th Street-Lincoln Center station, one of the…

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  • One Shots

    A REMAINING “CITY WALL”

    by Kevin Walsh April 11, 2023
    by Kevin Walsh April 11, 2023 3 comments

    THE late 1960s and early 1970s were, without a doubt, an era when Fun City was descending into madness and it was thought that NYC was an ungovernable city (in…

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  • Walks

    WILLIAM STREET, FINANCIAL DISTRICT

    by Kevin Walsh April 9, 2023
    by Kevin Walsh April 9, 2023 9 comments

    In early December 2020 it was a grey cold weekday (with wet snow later), but nonetheless I had the “Wandering Sickness” and decided to go straight up William Street in…

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  • One Shots

    JOHN STREET

    by Kevin Walsh March 21, 2023
    by Kevin Walsh March 21, 2023 3 comments

    JOHN. It’s probably the most common given name in the English language. Most Johns walking around today are likely named for their father, or a prominent family member, who were…

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