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    CLOVER DELI 2020

    by Kevin Walsh October 11, 2021
    by Kevin Walsh October 11, 2021 7 comments

    NOT being a Murray Hiller, I had never been in the Clover Deli at 2nd Avenue and East 34th Street, but its red and green neon sign had long been…

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  • One Shots

    MURRAY LANE, Murray Hill

    by Kevin Walsh October 2, 2021
    by Kevin Walsh October 2, 2021 2 comments

    WHEN most New Yorkers think of Murray Hill, they likely think of the area on the east side of Manhattan, just south of the United Nations between 34th and 42nd…

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  • One Shots

    PARADISE ALLEY, Murray Hill

    by Kevin Walsh May 18, 2021
    by Kevin Walsh May 18, 2021 2 comments

    This bar named “Paradise Alley” on 150th Street and 41st Avenue in Murray Hill always sounded vaguely familiar to me. The name has a long pedigree, but I can’t put…

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  • Neighborhoods

    RED BALL GARAGE, Murray Hill

    by Kevin Walsh October 30, 2020
    by Kevin Walsh October 30, 2020 7 comments

    On a visit to Chicago in the summer of 2001 I remarked to an architect friend that I’ve never seen a good-looking parking garage. It seemed like it was impossible…

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  • FNY CROSSTOWN

    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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  • Forgotten Slices

    BOWNE FAMILY

    by Kevin Walsh August 26, 2020
    by Kevin Walsh August 26, 2020 3 comments

    Bowne House, on Bowne Street north of 38th Avenue in Flushing, Queens, was built in 1661 by English settler John Bowne and, unlike many other colonial houses from the 17th…

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  • NeighborhoodsSubways & Trains

    MURRAY HILL STATION, Flushing

    by Kevin Walsh July 17, 2020
    by Kevin Walsh July 17, 2020 6 comments

    When most New Yorkers think of Murray Hill, they likely think of the area on the east side of Manhattan, just south of the United Nations between 34th and 42nd…

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  • Forgotten Slices

    TRAVIS TRIANGLE, Murray Hill

    by Kevin Walsh May 25, 2017
    by Kevin Walsh May 25, 2017 6 comments

    By SERGEY KADINSKY Forgotten NY correspondent With Memorial Day in mind, it is easy to think of it as the unofficial start of summer rather of its origins as a…

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  • One Shots

    LEXINGTON and 39th, Murray Hill

    by Kevin Walsh February 21, 2017
    by Kevin Walsh February 21, 2017 1 comment

    Block for block Lexington Avenue seems to have more older buildings than any other north-south Manhattan avenue. This pair at the SE corner of East 39th Street seems to be…

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  • One Shots

    CLAY SANSKRIT LIBRARY, Murray Hill

    by Kevin Walsh February 6, 2016
    by Kevin Walsh February 6, 2016 1 comment

    After finding once again, to my chagrin, that Press on East 23rd Street is closed on weekends, I resolved to get a bite later on and marched up Park Avenue…

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  • One ShotsSubways & Trains

    33rd STREET EAGLES

    by Kevin Walsh July 21, 2015
    by Kevin Walsh July 21, 2015 1 comment

    The IRT 33rd Street station, one of the original 28 stations on the Interborough Rapid Transit, or IRT, was built at the former site of the 71st Regiment Armory, which…

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  • One ShotsSubways & Trains

    ALL PERSONS ARE FORBIDDEN

    by Kevin Walsh July 20, 2015
    by Kevin Walsh July 20, 2015 9 comments

    I was tipped recently about a surviving sign from the subways’ earliest days in the 33rd Street IRT station (#6 train) which opened in 1904: “There is a very old,…

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