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    MARVELOUS NIGHT

    by Kevin Walsh July 25, 2024
    by Kevin Walsh July 25, 2024 7 comments

    So the word has come down that another NYC classic diner, the Neptune, at Astoria Boulevard and 31st Street, will close at the end of business on July 28, 2024.…

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    POWERS BUILDING, Midtown

    by Kevin Walsh February 16, 2016
    by Kevin Walsh February 16, 2016 0 comment

    Dazedly dodging Times Square crowds in the numbing cold of mid-February I found myself at 7th Avenue and West 46th Street, home on the ground floor at least to the…

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    REMAINS OF THE EL

    by Kevin Walsh March 23, 2014
    by Kevin Walsh March 23, 2014 3 comments

    1938 was a year in which els began to disappear from the Manhattan landscape, with the 6th, 2nd and 9th Avenue Els in succession all going the way of the…

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    SIGNS around town

    by Kevin Walsh July 29, 2013
    by Kevin Walsh July 29, 2013 3 comments

    Gary Fonville, FNY’s man in the MTA and former city bus driver, has been working overtime of late uncovering Forgotten oddities all over the city. Here are yet more…  …

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    SOUTH STREET SEAPORT LAMPPOSTS

    by Kevin Walsh February 22, 2013
    by Kevin Walsh February 22, 2013 3 comments

    When the Rouse Company remade the South Street Seaport area between 1981-1983, rehabilitating buildings, adding new buildings, and opening the tourist-friendly Pier 17 (where I still get tuna and pasta…

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    GRENADA MEDALLION, Greenwich Village

    by Kevin Walsh January 21, 2013
    by Kevin Walsh January 21, 2013 4 comments

    This is one of Avenue of the Americas’ dwindling supply of lamppost medallions, installed around 1960 to honor the involvement of the USA in the Organization of American States, which…

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    TOMPKINS SQUARE, squalor to oasis

    by Kevin Walsh March 30, 2008
    by Kevin Walsh March 30, 2008 1 comment

    Tompkins Square Park, a green oasis in the East Village between East 7th and East 10th Streets and Avenues A and B, has always been an open space in this part…

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