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    AUTOMAT, Midtown

    by Kevin Walsh January 24, 2023
    by Kevin Walsh January 24, 2023 12 comments

    I have pointed out this particular painted ad for the long-lost Automat before, but it’s been awhile. While walking down 7th Avenue all these years ago, I happened to look up…

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    CITIZEN M HOTEL, Midtown

    by Kevin Walsh November 23, 2022
    by Kevin Walsh November 23, 2022 0 comment

    WHEN I worked for half a year at a small design shop called Design Matters Inc. on Broadway and West 54th in 2019, I would take full advantage of the…

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    MAGIC BUS, Midtown

    by Kevin Walsh November 8, 2022
    by Kevin Walsh November 8, 2022 2 comments

    WALKING up 8th Avenue in Midtown in January 2019, I saw a Gray Line bus tricked out with an ad publicizing The Who’s 2019 tour by the iconic group that…

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    McHALE’S, Midtown

    by Kevin Walsh September 28, 2022
    by Kevin Walsh September 28, 2022 3 comments

    I’m unsure if McHale’s Bar & Grill, #251 West 51st Street, has anything to do with the classic McHale’s, formerly at the NE corner of 8th Avenue and West 46th…

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    DAILY NEWS BUILDING, Midtown

    by Kevin Walsh April 29, 2022
    by Kevin Walsh April 29, 2022 13 comments

    THE New York Daily News has been published since 1919. I am no longer a daily reader, but I reveled in its sports section in the 1960s and 1970s, with…

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    ANDREW’S COFFEE SHOP, Midtown

    by Kevin Walsh April 23, 2022
    by Kevin Walsh April 23, 2022 6 comments

    YES, Andrews Coffee Shop is familiar to office workers in the Penn Station area, on 7th Avenue and West 35th. But indulge me, as it is part of my past…

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    34th STREET PARTNERSHIP SIGN

    by Kevin Walsh April 8, 2022
    by Kevin Walsh April 8, 2022 1 comment

    “In 1989, at the request of then-Mayor Ed Koch, formation of the 34th Street Partnership began, and in 1992 the Partnership was officially established as one of New York’s first…

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  • FNY CROSSTOWN

    33RD AND 35TH

    by Kevin Walsh April 3, 2022
    by Kevin Walsh April 3, 2022 6 comments

    IT’S time for another entry in FNY’s Cross Streets of NYC series! I have been walking Manhattan’s numbered streets from east to west or vice versa so compulsively, I’ve decided to…

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    REMEMBERING THE COMPLETE TRAVELLER, Midtown

    by Kevin Walsh March 9, 2022
    by Kevin Walsh March 9, 2022 3 comments

    It wasn’t as if I was in the Complete Traveller often. In fact I believe I made just one purchase there all the years it was open. At least I…

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    MACY’S STARS, Midtown

    by Kevin Walsh March 8, 2022
    by Kevin Walsh March 8, 2022 4 comments

    ROWLAND Hussey Macy (1822-1877) was a Nantucket seaman aboard the Emily Morgan whaling ship at age 15, and while serving there he picked up at a port of call a red, five-pointed star…

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    TRACK 16 SIGN, Penn Station

    by Kevin Walsh November 25, 2021
    by Kevin Walsh November 25, 2021 18 comments

    As Midtown commuters know, Penn Station has been a complete morass of construction, at least for Long Island Rail Road customers, as the Metropolitan Transportation Authority is expanding the main…

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    ELEPHANTS OF LEXINGTON, Midtown

    by Kevin Walsh November 1, 2021
    by Kevin Walsh November 1, 2021 3 comments

    THE Montclair Hotel was designed. by prolific NYC architect Emery Roth and built in 1928, across the street from the lodestone of Lexington Avenue hotels, the former Waldorf Astoria on…

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