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    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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    WHO IS THAT GUY? GENERAL ALEXANDER WEBB

    by Kevin Walsh July 12, 2021
    by Kevin Walsh July 12, 2021 7 comments

    CONVENT Avenue in Manhattanville is named for the former campus of the Catholic Society of the Sacred Heart, which once stood between Convent Avenue and St. Nicholas Terrace between West…

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  • Walks

    MANHATTANVILLE TO HUNT’S POINT, Part 2

    by Kevin Walsh September 9, 2018
    by Kevin Walsh September 9, 2018 3 comments

    Continued from Part 1 I had an interregnum of work this past spring (2018), the better part of two months for a financial printer in Midtown. The hours were overnights…

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    ST. MARY’S CHURCH, Manhattanville

    by Kevin Walsh June 5, 2018
    by Kevin Walsh June 5, 2018 3 comments

    The Episcopal St. Mary’s Church, West 126th Street between Old Broadway and Amsterdam Avenue,  is in many ways the heart of Manhattanville. It was first organized in 1823 as a branch church of…

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  • One ShotsSubways & Trains

    MANHATTAN EL, Manhattanville

    by Kevin Walsh October 15, 2013
    by Kevin Walsh October 15, 2013 10 comments

    You’re looking at part of Manhattan’s only stretch of elevated train track south of Dyckman Street. For approximately 70 years, between the 1870s and 1940s, the island was chockablock with…

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  • One ShotsSubways & Trains

    FILIGREE on the IRT

    by Kevin Walsh October 10, 2013
    by Kevin Walsh October 10, 2013 3 comments

    What are we looking at here? In 1900, when the IRT subway was designed and began construction, engineers had to make a decision about what to do with Manhattan Valley:…

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  • Tours

    Scenes from FORGOTTENTOUR #71, Manhattanville–Hamilton Grange

    by Kevin Walsh September 26, 2013
    by Kevin Walsh September 26, 2013 1 comment

    Saturday, September 7th was yet one more in a string of sunny days for ForgottenTours –throughout 2010 and much of 2011 we couldn’t avoid the raindrops, but the past two…

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  • Tours

    SCENES FROM FORGOTTENTOUR #67, Riverside Drive

    by Kevin Walsh June 14, 2013
    by Kevin Walsh June 14, 2013 1 comment

    Breaking our one-tour losing streak with the weather (The Tottenville tour was completed but through mainly rain) FNY’s Riverside Drive tour on Sunday, June 2nd, featured mostly sunshine with the…

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  • One ShotsSigns

    MOYLAN PLACE, Manhattanville

    by Kevin Walsh May 25, 2013
    by Kevin Walsh May 25, 2013 37 comments

    A sign on the east side of Broadway, just south of West 125th and in front of the General Grant Houses, advertises the presence of a Moylan Place. However, there’s…

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  • Walks

    CONVENT AVENUE, Manhattanville – Morningside Heights

    by Kevin Walsh May 19, 2013
    by Kevin Walsh May 19, 2013 13 comments

    Long Island University has a campaign (in 2013) called “Find Out How Good You Really Are.” When I went to college, I found out I wasn’t all that good. I…

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  • Neighborhoods

    MANHATTANVILLE, Manhattan

    by Kevin Walsh July 23, 2007
    by Kevin Walsh July 23, 2007 31 comments

    Before the 1820s or so, New York City was pretty much confined to the area south of City Hall and indeed, City Hall was left unfinished on its north side since…

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  • Cemeteries

    Who IS buried at GRANT’S TOMB?

    by Kevin Walsh November 11, 2000
    by Kevin Walsh November 11, 2000 0 comment

    It’s not who you think. The last resting place of the 18th President, Ulysses S. Grant, and his wife on Riverside Drive on the Upper West Side has been the…

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