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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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    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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  • Alleys

    ONE AND DONE, MANHATTAN, PART 3

    by Kevin Walsh February 25, 2024
    by Kevin Walsh February 25, 2024 14 comments

    Continued from Part 2 GETTING tired of the One and Done series yet? I’m not, I’m having fun with it. My thinking is I’ll wrap up Manhattan, then wait a…

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  • Cemeteries

    11TH STREET CATHOLIC CEMETERY, EAST VILLAGE

    by Kevin Walsh February 24, 2024
    by Kevin Walsh February 24, 2024 2 comments

    THE 2nd Shearith Israel Cemetery on West 11th Street near 6th Avenue (described on this FNY page) isn’t the only “deactivated” cemetery on 11th Street. I recently found out about…

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  • Neighborhoods

    A LOOK AT GRAND CENTRAL MADISON

    by Kevin Walsh February 22, 2024
    by Kevin Walsh February 22, 2024 14 comments

    After 25 years now it’s obvious that Forgotten New York, besides a chronicler of a NYC the guidebooks won’t tell you about, is also enthusiastic about NYC’s infrastructure. To that…

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  • Street Lamps

    DOUBLE DESKEY, MIDTOWN

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

    PERIODICALLY, I post about the dwindling number of twin 5th Avenue Donald Deskey-designed lampposts; I did so in 2013 and 2016, and in the former year I listed the locations…

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  • Signs

    PHIL’S STATIONERY, MIDTOWN

    by Kevin Walsh February 19, 2024
    by Kevin Walsh February 19, 2024 7 comments

    I haven’t mentioned it often but I’m something of a stationery store aficionado. When I worked at Photo-Lettering, NYC’s biggest typesetting shop in the 1980s as a proofreader, we dealt with…

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  • One Shots

    THE NORTH RIVER

    by Kevin Walsh February 16, 2024
    by Kevin Walsh February 16, 2024 12 comments

    YOU never know what you’re going to find down by the water, which is why I am happy to have been born and raised in a city by the water.…

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  • Neighborhoods

    DAGGER JOHN, LITTLE ITALY

    by Kevin Walsh February 14, 2024
    by Kevin Walsh February 14, 2024 5 comments

    On this Ash Wednesday (and St. Valentine’s Day), let’s visit one of NYC’s oldest Catholic churches at Mulberry and Prince Streets in Little Italy. Old St. Patrick’s is called “old”…

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