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    GOVERNORS ISLAND SIGNAGE

    by Kevin Walsh September 3, 2024
    by Kevin Walsh September 3, 2024 3 comments

    HAVING roamed Governors Island for the first time in a few years, my mission was to pay attention to the older infrastructure. I first stopped on the island at Christmas…

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  • One Shots

    OLD PEN AND PENCIL, TURTLE BAY

    by Kevin Walsh August 29, 2024
    by Kevin Walsh August 29, 2024 10 comments

    I recently walked much of East and West 45th, which will eventually turn up in an FNY Crosstown page. On the street, I worked for 6 straight years at what…

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  • SignsSubways & Trains

    PORT AUTHORITY MOSAIC

    by Kevin Walsh August 26, 2024
    by Kevin Walsh August 26, 2024 4 comments

    JUST outside the turnstiles in the concourse of the 14th Street station on the IND 8th Avenue line (A, C, E trains) there’s a handsomely lettered sign in the black…

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  • Street Lamps

    CITY LIGHTS HYBRID MADISON SQUARE

    by Kevin Walsh August 20, 2024
    by Kevin Walsh August 20, 2024 2 comments

    I was plodding along West 23rd Street west of 5th Avenue in June 2024 when I spotted something curious. Over the past 20 years, a new species of lamppost has…

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  • Subways & Trains

    THE LOST HIGH LINE PIECE

    by Kevin Walsh August 14, 2024
    by Kevin Walsh August 14, 2024 2 comments

    At 463 West Street you will find the old Bell Labs HQ whose various buildings take up an entire block, between Washington, West, Bank and Bethune Streets. This complex was…

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  • Roads

    WEST SIDE HIGHWAY, 1970s

    by Kevin Walsh August 8, 2024
    by Kevin Walsh August 8, 2024 23 comments

    THIS photo of the long-gone West Side Highway in Manhattan has been making the rounds today (it’s in Facebook’s Lost New York page) so I thought I’d wade in. Surprisingly…

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  • One Shots

    LEFCOURT CENTRAL BUILDING, MIDTOWN

    by Kevin Walsh July 11, 2024
    by Kevin Walsh July 11, 2024 0 comment

    In February 2024 I walked the length of 37th Street from west to east, as part of FNY’s ongoing Crosstown series. I have yet to tackle it for a feature…

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  • One Shots

    RANDEL GRID POST

    by Kevin Walsh July 6, 2024
    by Kevin Walsh July 6, 2024 2 comments

    I was in the New-York Historical Society on July 4th, 2024 puttering around the exhibits, when i saw a rectangular post in a glass case, marked with a “4” on…

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  • One Shots

    LEE BROTHERS FURNITURE, MANHATTANVILLE

    by Kevin Walsh July 4, 2024
    by Kevin Walsh July 4, 2024 1 comment

    FOR some time I wondered about the original purpose of this Greek temple on the Riverside Drive viaduct just south of West 135th Street. I recently discovered it: historian Fred…

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  • One Shots

    AN AMIABLE CHILD, MORNINGSIDE HEIGHTS

    by Kevin Walsh July 3, 2024
    by Kevin Walsh July 3, 2024 5 comments

    As a kid, I was far from amiable. Pretty much all I wanted to do was read, or fill writing tablets with drawings of lampposts. My parents’ constant refrain was,…

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    SHERIDAN AND STONEWALL, GREENWICH VILLAGE

    by Kevin Walsh June 27, 2024
    by Kevin Walsh June 27, 2024 3 comments

    TWO very different eras of American history appear side by side in Sheridan Square in Greenwich Village. 7th Avenue South was created in the 1910s by the extension of the…

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    HUGH O’NEILL’S, LADIES MILE

    by Kevin Walsh June 26, 2024
    by Kevin Walsh June 26, 2024 3 comments

    WHO is Hugh O’Neill, and why is his name on this building high above Sixth Avenue and 22nd Street? Back in the good old days, circa 1900, Hugh O’Neill owned the…

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