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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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    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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  • One Shots

    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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  • One Shots

    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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    ROBERT BESTIEN, Midtown

    by Kevin Walsh July 26, 2021
    by Kevin Walsh July 26, 2021 1 comment

    NEXT time you are in midtown between 5th and 8th Avenues and 23rd and 40th Streets, be sure and look up at all the ancient brick buildings, built in stolid…

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    44th STREET, Part 2: Midtown, Turtle Bay

    by Kevin Walsh April 29, 2021
    by Kevin Walsh April 29, 2021 10 comments

    Continued from Part 1 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…

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    38th STREET east to west

    by Kevin Walsh October 11, 2020
    by Kevin Walsh October 11, 2020 10 comments

    It’s time for another entry in FNY’s Cross Streets of NYC series!  I’ve done them piecemeal in the past, but I’ve already posted 20th Street, 21st Street, 22nd Street, 17th Street, 10th Street, 6th Street, 18th Street, 25th…

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