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    AN AMIABLE CHILD, MORNINGSIDE HEIGHTS

    by Kevin Walsh July 3, 2024
    by Kevin Walsh July 3, 2024 5 comments

    As a kid, I was far from amiable. Pretty much all I wanted to do was read, or fill writing tablets with drawings of lampposts. My parents’ constant refrain was,…

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    CENTRAL PARK NORTH

    by Kevin Walsh May 28, 2023
    by Kevin Walsh May 28, 2023 1 comment

    Something a little unusual today: an FNY page composed in 2010 that somehow was left off the two site reconstructions done in 2011 and 2019. Some of this info may…

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    WHO IS THAT GUY? WINFIELD SCOTT HANCOCK

    by Kevin Walsh July 29, 2020
    by Kevin Walsh July 29, 2020 7 comments

    At a confluence of roads (West 124th Street, Manhattan and St. Nicholas Avenues, and Hancock Place) we find a bust of Winfield Scott Hancock by James Wilson Alexander McDonald, dedicated in…

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    ENGINE 47, Morningside Heights

    by Kevin Walsh October 1, 2018
    by Kevin Walsh October 1, 2018 4 comments

    There are still a number of 19th-Century firehouses scattered around town, exhibiting architectural styles popular in the years they were built. Engine 47, #500 West 113th Street off Amsterdam Avenue,…

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    CARL SCHURZ and THE WHO, Morningside Heights

    by Kevin Walsh August 16, 2018
    by Kevin Walsh August 16, 2018 8 comments

    West 116th Street comes to a temporary halt at a steep cliff marked by Morningside Park just east of Columbia University, and a sweeping view of upper Manhattan and beyond can…

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    GEORGE AND GILBERT, Morningside Heights

    by Kevin Walsh June 28, 2017
    by Kevin Walsh June 28, 2017 1 comment

    Morningside Avenue is  one of the shortest of Manhattan’s north-south avenues, running just 14 blocks from Manhattan Avenue and West 113th to West 127th and Convent, running along Morningside Park. If…

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    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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    116th STREET, Harlem

    by Kevin Walsh January 17, 2011
    by Kevin Walsh January 17, 2011 14 comments

    In March 2010, your webmaster finally made the Ivy League. Not the way you think, though — my grades/ambition and my family’s funds were always too low for me to…

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