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    BAWO & DOTTER BUILDING, MIDTOWN

    by Kevin Walsh May 16, 2024
    by Kevin Walsh May 16, 2024 0 comment

    WHILE West 33rd passes the Empire State Building as it nears 5th Avenue, I was more fascinated by the Bawo and Dotter Building across the street at #20 West 33rd,…

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  • Forgotten Slices

    54TH STREET BRIDGE, TURTLE BAY

    by Kevin Walsh April 29, 2024
    by Kevin Walsh April 29, 2024 0 comment

    As Forgotten NY readers know I am an infrastructure buff and FNY is at its heart an infrastructure blog, so when something like a new pedestrian bridge opens, I’m usually…

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  • One Shots

    CHURCH OF THE TRANSFIGURATION, MADISON SQUARE

    by Kevin Walsh April 4, 2024
    by Kevin Walsh April 4, 2024 4 comments

    THERE are a couple of interesting churches around town named for the Transfiguration, an incident described in the Gospels of Matthew, Mark and Luke in which Jesus reveals His divinity…

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  • Street Scenes

    SOUTH STREET RELIC

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

    WELL, you don’t see too many of these any more. I’d estimate there are approximately 25 or 30 at the most of these curved-mast octagonal shaft lampposts around town, with…

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  • One Shots

    PARIS CAFE, SEAPORT

    by Kevin Walsh April 1, 2024
    by Kevin Walsh April 1, 2024 2 comments

    THE South Street Seaport has lost many of its mainstays during the 21st Century…the restaurants Sloppy Louie’s and Sweet’s; the Fulton Fish Market itself, which moved to Hunts Point in…

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  • Forgotten Slices

    SPRING AND RENWICK, SOHO

    by Kevin Walsh March 31, 2024
    by Kevin Walsh March 31, 2024 2 comments

    JUST a quick one this week, as I will be occupied much of Easter Sunday and I am busy assembling the FNY 25th anniversary event presentation scheduled for Thursday, April…

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  • One Shots

    MADISON AND SCAMMEL, 1941

    by Kevin Walsh March 25, 2024
    by Kevin Walsh March 25, 2024 5 comments

    TIME once again to jump into the H.G. Wells Time Machine and head for some time other than now. This contraption is hard to keep around my apartment, especially with…

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  • FNY CROSSTOWN

    FRANKLIN STREET, TRIBECA

    by Kevin Walsh March 24, 2024
    by Kevin Walsh March 24, 2024 8 comments

    I have a number of Crosstown posts lined up as there are still hundreds of east-west NYC streets to be covered, and I now have a backlog of photos that…

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  • One Shots

    LIGHTHOUSES, MIDTOWN SOUTH

    by Kevin Walsh March 20, 2024
    by Kevin Walsh March 20, 2024 5 comments

    FOR the first time since 2022, I have a “deep bench” in sports terms, a hefty and healthy backlog of photos from a number of different walks, which is surprising…

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  • FNY CROSSTOWN

    LEONARD STREET, TRIBECA

    by Kevin Walsh March 17, 2024
    by Kevin Walsh March 17, 2024 5 comments

    GUSTY winds and occasional showers are not my ideal walking conditions, but on the weekend, I’ll take what is offered, as I am working fulltime at home during the week.…

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  • SignsSubways & Trains

    68TH STREET STATION, LENOX HILL

    by Kevin Walsh March 13, 2024
    by Kevin Walsh March 13, 2024 5 comments

    UNUSUALLY for a NYC subway station that opened in July 1918, the 68th Street-Hunter College station has a mezzanine section built over the tracks. When it’s not too busy, you…

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  • Street Lamps

    ORIGINAL 34TH LAMPPOST

    by Kevin Walsh February 26, 2024
    by Kevin Walsh February 26, 2024 1 comment

    ADMITTEDLY this is not my favorite lamppost around town, but the lamps designed and installed by the not for profit organization called the 34th Street Partnership have now been in…

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