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    GRAND CENTRAL RATS

    by Kevin Walsh March 10, 2018
    by Kevin Walsh March 10, 2018 1 comment

    It’s an oft told tale for Forgotten NY fans, so stop me if you’ve heard it before. For those who haven’t, you can see three rats scurrying up the struts supporting…

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  • Forgotten Slices

    GANSEVOORT MARKET

    by Kevin Walsh March 8, 2018
    by Kevin Walsh March 8, 2018 4 comments

    I had to make two trips to the Apple Store on 9th and West 14th to get an IPhone 6 unlocked, and then I had a new battery installed, since…

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    STREET VENT, West 14th

    by Kevin Walsh March 7, 2018
    by Kevin Walsh March 7, 2018 1 comment

    I was ambling along West 14th Street just outside the A/C/E/L train on 8th Avenue on my way to the Apple store on 9th to get my IPhone unlocked (I…

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  • Forgotten Slices

    EAST RIVER PARK

    by Kevin Walsh March 6, 2018
    by Kevin Walsh March 6, 2018 7 comments

    By SERGEY KADINSKY Forgotten NY correspondent On a bend of the East River on Manhattan’s Lower East Side is a park named after this waterway and recently co-named after a…

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  • One ShotsStreet Lamps

    WALL BRACKET, South Street

    by Kevin Walsh March 2, 2018
    by Kevin Walsh March 2, 2018 3 comments

    From NYC King of Lampposts Bob Mulero’s collection comes this photo of a 1950s-era wall bracket map from somewhere on South Street; the street has maintained very few of its…

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  • Walks

    GREENWICH STREET Part 3

    by Kevin Walsh February 25, 2018
    by Kevin Walsh February 25, 2018 13 comments

    Continued from Part 2 Strangely enough, though I have touched on Greenwich Street often (it runs from Battery Park up the West Side all the way through Tribeca and Greenwich…

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  • Walks

    GREENWICH STREET Part 2

    by Kevin Walsh February 18, 2018
    by Kevin Walsh February 18, 2018 15 comments

    Continued from Page 1 Strangely enough, though I have touched on Greenwich Street often (it runs from Battery Park up the West Side all the way through Tribeca and Greenwich…

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  • One Shots

    LINCOLN HIGHWAY, Times Square

    by Kevin Walsh February 16, 2018
    by Kevin Walsh February 16, 2018 11 comments

    In 2009, the Department of Transportation posted a Lincoln Highway sign in the maroon color generally used to denote NYC Landmarked districts at West 42nd Street and Broadway in Times…

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  • Walks

    GREENWICH STREET Part 1

    by Kevin Walsh February 12, 2018
    by Kevin Walsh February 12, 2018 23 comments

    Strangely enough, though I have touched on Greenwich Street often (it runs from Battery Park up the West Side all the way through Tribeca and Greenwich Village into the Meatpacking…

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  • One Shots

    ST. JOHN’S CHAPEL, Tribeca

    by Kevin Walsh February 5, 2018
    by Kevin Walsh February 5, 2018 1 comment

    For a long time I have been interested in the terra cotta plaques on Intermediate School 234 in Tribeca, that depict scnes of a long-gone Manhattan era including the old…

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  • One Shots

    EXCELSIOR POWER COMPANY, Downtown

    by Kevin Walsh January 30, 2018
    by Kevin Walsh January 30, 2018 6 comments

    From the Bob Mulero archives comes this photo of the Excelsior Power Company Building, 33 Gold Street between Fulton and John Streets, where Gold meets the tiny Edens Alley. It…

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  • Neighborhoods

    SHE WHO MUST BE OBEYED, Midtown

    by Kevin Walsh January 26, 2018
    by Kevin Walsh January 26, 2018 1 comment

    The impressive townhouse at 124 East 55th between Park and Lexington was built around 1910 and is known as the Mary Hale Cunningham House, after its original owner. However, the…

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