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  • Street Necrology

    UNBUILT STREETS

    by Kevin Walsh June 18, 2023
    by Kevin Walsh June 18, 2023 10 comments

    It occurs to me that I haven’t done an entry in the Forgotten NY Street Necrology category for awhile, and in this case, I want to do something a bit…

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  • Subways & Trains

    ENTRANCE KIOSK, ASTOR PLACE

    by Kevin Walsh June 14, 2023
    by Kevin Walsh June 14, 2023 9 comments

    ENTRANCE and exit kiosks were constructed by the IRT, or Interborough Rapid Transit (today’s numbered subway lines) for its original 28 stations from City Hall north to 145th Street along…

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  • Forgotten Slices

    BUS STOP ART

    by Kevin Walsh June 10, 2023
    by Kevin Walsh June 10, 2023 2 comments

    BY SERGEY KADINSKYForgotten NY correspondent SECOND to Queens Boulevard, with its express and local lanes, the north-south version of this major artery is the combination of Woodhaven and Cross Bay…

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  • One Shots

    MILTON GLASER, SVA, GRAMERCY PARK

    by Kevin Walsh June 6, 2023
    by Kevin Walsh June 6, 2023 8 comments

    NOT long ago, I spotted this billboard outside the School of Visual Arts on East 23rd Street and 2nd Avenue, honoring Milton Glaser, perhaps the best known graphic designer of…

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  • Signs

    ALBANESE MEATS AND POULTRY, LITTLE ITALY

    by Kevin Walsh June 5, 2023
    by Kevin Walsh June 5, 2023 7 comments

    THE family-run Albanese Meats & Poultry, in business in Little Italy since 1923 and currently at #238 Elizabeth Street between Prince and East Houston, features what appears to be a…

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  • One Shots

    BROCKOVICH BANDSHELL, EAST RIVER PARK

    by Kevin Walsh June 2, 2023
    by Kevin Walsh June 2, 2023 2 comments

    At the bend in the shoreline that is Corlears Hook, an amphitheater fits right in. This East River Park bandshell was funded in 2001 by consumer rights activist Erin Brockovich…

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  • Forgotten Slices

    102 GREENWICH STREET, DOWNTOWN

    by Kevin Walsh June 1, 2023
    by Kevin Walsh June 1, 2023 7 comments

    WHILE wandering around in lower Manhattan in 2018, I spotted a rather forbidding-looking building at #102-104 Greenwich, just north of Rector (and one of my favorite lunch joints, George’s Restaurant).…

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  • Street LampsSubways & Trains

    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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