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    HIGH LINE’S LAST FRONTIER

    by Kevin Walsh June 27, 2020
    by Kevin Walsh June 27, 2020 21 comments

    I haven’t lost hope for the High Line, the former elevated freight railroad constructed in 1934 and used for that purpose until 1980. Long before I even conceived Forgotten New…

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  • One Shots

    HIGH LINE, 1999

    by Kevin Walsh March 27, 2019
    by Kevin Walsh March 27, 2019 4 comments

    March 2019 marks Forgotten New York’s 20th anniversary. To celebrate the occasion, I’ve re-scanned about 150 key images from the early days of FNY from 35MM prints. In the early…

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  • Forgotten Slices

    GANSEVOORT STREET, West Village

    by Kevin Walsh January 16, 2019
    by Kevin Walsh January 16, 2019 5 comments

    On a Sunday in January 2019, I decided to walk up and down the east-west streets of the northwest region of Greenwich Village, noting that I hadn’t yet taken a…

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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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  • Walks

    GREENWICH STREET Part 3

    by Kevin Walsh February 25, 2018
    by Kevin Walsh February 25, 2018 12 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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  • AdsOne Shots

    BURNHAM’S BEEF WINE, Meatpacking

    by Kevin Walsh April 6, 2017
    by Kevin Walsh April 6, 2017 1 comment

    When I first saw this painted sign on Gansevoort between Greenwich and Washington, above the former Florent restaurant, I naturally assumed it said “Burnham’s BEET Wine.” Actually the T is…

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  • One ShotsStreet Lamps

    TYPE G CORVINGTON, Meatpacking

    by Kevin Walsh April 3, 2017
    by Kevin Walsh April 3, 2017 3 comments

    This Type G Corvington lamppost, defaced with a modern sodium yellow luminaire, was listing visibly when I photographed it at Gansevoort and Little West 12th Streets in the Meatpacking in…

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  • One Shots

    HECTOR’S of the Meatpacking

    by Kevin Walsh October 16, 2013
    by Kevin Walsh October 16, 2013 2 comments

    Hector’s Cafe, on Washington and Little West 12th Street, like your webmaster has seen a great deal of changes and remained pretty much the same. When the diner first opened…

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  • One ShotsSigns

    SUPER CITY MEAT, Meatpacking

    by Kevin Walsh April 25, 2013
    by Kevin Walsh April 25, 2013 3 comments

    Except for a few wholesalers on Little West 12th between West and Washington Streets, the Meatpacking District, now the home of fashion retail and super-expensive apartment houses, has pretty much…

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  • AdsOne Shots

    MIDDENDORF & ROHR’S, Meatpacking

    by Kevin Walsh April 25, 2013
    by Kevin Walsh April 25, 2013 10 comments

    Despite the rigors of over a century’s worth of wind, rain and storms, the painted sign identifying Middendorf & Rohrs Grocers is still identifiable at #1 Little West 12th Street.…

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  • NeighborhoodsStreet Scenes

    9th AVENUE, Chelsea-Meatpacking

    by Kevin Walsh December 5, 2010
    by Kevin Walsh December 5, 2010 0 comment

    In July 2010 I stumbled in the dead dog heat on West 30th Street (the fruits of that labor are included on West 30th Part 1 and West 30th Part…

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  • RoadsStreet ScenesWalks

    14th STREET, Manhattan

    by Kevin Walsh November 7, 2009
    by Kevin Walsh November 7, 2009 0 comment

    In “Mellow Yellow” Donovan is actually saying he’s just mad about Frontine, but in 1960s transistor radio-squawk that was always rendered Fourteen, and I thought he liked teenagers, which wouldn’t…

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