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    TRACK 16 SIGN, Penn Station

    by Kevin Walsh November 25, 2021
    by Kevin Walsh November 25, 2021 18 comments

    As Midtown commuters know, Penn Station has been a complete morass of construction, at least for Long Island Rail Road customers, as the Metropolitan Transportation Authority is expanding the main…

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  • Walks

    FORT WASHINGTON AVENUE, Washington Heights

    by Kevin Walsh November 21, 2021
    by Kevin Walsh November 21, 2021 17 comments

    FORT Washington Avenue is one of the major north-south routes in Washington Heights, running from Broadway and West 159th to Fort Tryon Park at West 190th, running past NY Presbyterian…

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  • Alleys

    GROVE COURT, Greenwich Village

    by Kevin Walsh November 20, 2021
    by Kevin Walsh November 20, 2021 3 comments

    GROVE Court in the Village can be found in a bend in Grove Street between Bedford and Hudson Streets. In fact if you look at a street map you will…

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  • Signs

    SUBWAY ALPHABET SOUP

    by Kevin Walsh November 8, 2021
    by Kevin Walsh November 8, 2021 6 comments

    THE 34th Street Herald Square subway complex is truly vast and contains subway lines on three separate levels. In fact, I’m so fascinated with it I made a pilgrimage there…

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  • Walks

    8TH AVENUE, Chelsea

    by Kevin Walsh November 7, 2021
    by Kevin Walsh November 7, 2021 10 comments

    WOULD you believe…that the last time I did an extended post on 8th Avenue in Manhattan was…in 2007? It’s true. In fact quite a bit of what I showed on…

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  • Roads

    CENTER DRIVE, Central Park

    by Kevin Walsh November 4, 2021
    by Kevin Walsh November 4, 2021 0 comment

    By SERGEY KADINSKYForgotten New York correspondent THE last civilian passenger car traveled on the internal roads of Central Park on June 26, 2018, as bike activists and joggers celebrated the…

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  • One Shots

    ELEPHANTS OF LEXINGTON, Midtown

    by Kevin Walsh November 1, 2021
    by Kevin Walsh November 1, 2021 3 comments

    THE Montclair Hotel was designed. by prolific NYC architect Emery Roth and built in 1928, across the street from the lodestone of Lexington Avenue hotels, the former Waldorf Astoria on…

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  • FNY CROSSTOWN

    4th STREET, PART 3: EAST VILLAGE

    by Kevin Walsh October 31, 2021
    by Kevin Walsh October 31, 2021 11 comments

    Continued from Part 2 FOR this FNY Crosstown post I selected 4th Street, which is the only numbered east-west street (that always had a number) to almost go river to river south…

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  • One Shots

    MOUNT VERNON HOTEL, Lenox Hill

    by Kevin Walsh October 27, 2021
    by Kevin Walsh October 27, 2021 1 comment

    ONE of the oldest buildings in the Queensboro Bridge area is the Abigail Adams Museum, alternately the Mount Vernon Hotel. The stone building with the two-level white porch on East…

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  • One Shots

    READE STREET MYSTERY

    by Kevin Walsh October 26, 2021
    by Kevin Walsh October 26, 2021 5 comments

    WHEN you are a photographer in New York City taking photos of infrastructure, it sometimes isn’t easy. I was setting up a shot on 1st Avenue over the weekend, concentrating…

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  • FNY CROSSTOWN

    4th STREET, PART 2

    by Kevin Walsh October 24, 2021
    by Kevin Walsh October 24, 2021 13 comments

    Continued from Part 1 FOR this FNY Crosstown post I selected 4th Street, which is the only numbered east-west street (that always had a number) to almost go river to river south…

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  • Street Lamps

    WINDSOR TOWER LAMPS, Tudor City

    by Kevin Walsh October 20, 2021
    by Kevin Walsh October 20, 2021 2 comments

    WHY am I using the Streetlamps stamp here at Tudor City’s Windsor Tower at 1st Avenue and East 40th Street, the largest building in the luxury apartment campus found between…

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