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  • Street Lamps

    THE WEST SIDE CORVS

    by Kevin Walsh April 22, 2025
    by Kevin Walsh April 22, 2025 4 comments

    WHILE traipsing the northern leg of the High Line recently I noticed something interesting about the green Corvington streetlamps along the West Side Highway, officially called West Street here, but…

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  • One Shots

    BUTTERICK BUILDING, SOHO

    by Kevin Walsh April 21, 2025
    by Kevin Walsh April 21, 2025 5 comments

    THE Butterick Building at the NW corner of 6th Avenue and Spring was built in 1903, before 6th Avenue was built. Butterick is a sewing pattern company founded in 1863 by Ebenezer…

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  • One Shots

    GERMANIA ON THE BOWERY

    by Kevin Walsh April 16, 2025
    by Kevin Walsh April 16, 2025 1 comment

    THE old Germania Bank building, 190 Bowery at Spring Street, has become a mecca for graffiti birds; its exterior is faded, rusted, corroded glory, with Beaux-Arts hints of another age splattered…

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  • Cemeteries

    JAMES DAVIS, ST. PAUL’S CHURCHYARD

    by Kevin Walsh April 15, 2025
    by Kevin Walsh April 15, 2025 1 comment

    THE dead of winter is a natural time to commune with the dead and in late January I was stumbling around in St. Paul’s Churchyard, which I’ve neglected over the…

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  • One Shots

    CHRISTOPHER STREET…OR IS IT

    by Kevin Walsh April 14, 2025
    by Kevin Walsh April 14, 2025 6 comments

    VERY infrequently in New York City, you’ll find a Street With No Name. For many years, a roadway way down at the southwest end of Bay Ridge, along Dyker Beach…

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  • Alleys

    SYLVAN TERRACE, SUGAR HILL

    by Kevin Walsh April 1, 2025
    by Kevin Walsh April 1, 2025 4 comments

    I didn’t know it at the time, November 10th, 2019, but the last Forgotten NY tour in Sugar Hill in a packed schedule that year turned out to be the…

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  • Street Lamps

    DAYBURNER, MADISON SQUARE

    by Kevin Walsh March 31, 2025
    by Kevin Walsh March 31, 2025 1 comment

    It’s always a pleasure to check on 5th Avenue’s dwindling set of Twinlamps. A handful of the Queen of Avenue’s “twins,” actually the second Twinlamp design, remain along 5th between…

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  • Forgotten Slices

    TURTLE BAY INTERIORS

    by Kevin Walsh March 30, 2025
    by Kevin Walsh March 30, 2025 3 comments

    In 2015, Kevin visited the East 54th Street Recreation Center in Turtle Bay, documenting its Beaux Arts architecture. Since then, it was renamed for Constance Baker Motley, continuing its role…

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  • Ads

    TURKISH TROPHIES, CHINATOWN

    by Kevin Walsh March 17, 2025
    by Kevin Walsh March 17, 2025 2 comments

    HERE’S a golden oldie that may be as old as 1892 on Division Street just east of the Bowery at Chatham Square. El riders likely got a good look at…

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  • One ShotsSubways & Trains

    DIVISION STREET POWERHOUSE

    by Kevin Walsh March 5, 2025
    by Kevin Walsh March 5, 2025 5 comments

    NEW YORK CITY once had four main trunk elevated lines: the 2nd, 3rd, 6th and 9th Avenue Els. Of these, the Third Avenue gets the most of meager press attention…

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  • Forgotten Slices

    CENTRAL PARK ARSENAL AND ZOO

    by Kevin Walsh March 1, 2025
    by Kevin Walsh March 1, 2025 2 comments

    FACING the corner of Fifth Avenue and E. 64th Street is a former state militia armory that serves as the headquarters of NYC Parks. As a landmarked building, its history…

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  • SignsSubways & Trains

    St. PAUL’S CHURCH SIGN

    by Kevin Walsh February 24, 2025
    by Kevin Walsh February 24, 2025 4 comments

    In the mid-1760s, NYC had sufficiently grown that the Episcopalian parish of Trinity Church began to expand uptown, and built St. Paul’s Chapel in 1766. When a giant fire broke…

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