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    GREAT JONES STREET, NoHo

    by Kevin Walsh December 23, 2020
    by Kevin Walsh December 23, 2020 9 comments

    Great Jones Street takes the place of 3rd Street for two blocks, between Broadway and the Bowery. A bit of research with older maps reveals that it was never part…

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    BROADWAY AND THE BOWERY

    by Kevin Walsh July 7, 2019
    by Kevin Walsh July 7, 2019 2 comments

    I recently took a walk from Penn Station, exploring the newest and final section of the High Line that will open to the public, into Chelsea, south along 4th Avenue…

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  • One ShotsSubways & Trains

    BEAVER, NoHo

    by Kevin Walsh April 3, 2019
    by Kevin Walsh April 3, 2019 2 comments

    John Jacob Astor, né Ashdor, was the richest man in the United States for a time in the early 1800s. He was originally a dealer of musical instruments as a young…

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    ST. JOSEPH’S UNION, NoHo 1999

    by Kevin Walsh March 6, 2019
    by Kevin Walsh March 6, 2019 5 comments

    March 2019 marks Forgotten New York’s 20th anniversary. To mark the occasion, I’ve re-scanned about 150 key images from the early days of FNY from 35MM prints. In the early…

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    MULBERRY STREET, Little Italy

    by Kevin Walsh December 16, 2018
    by Kevin Walsh December 16, 2018 17 comments

    In deep and dark November I took a walk straight up Mulberry Street for its entire length, which I had never previously done. It skirts the west edge of Chinatown and cleaves…

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    MANHATTAN SAVINGS INSTITUTION BUILDING, NoHo

    by Kevin Walsh January 3, 2017
    by Kevin Walsh January 3, 2017 0 comment

    The Manhattan Savings Institution was first chartered in 1850 and the bank survived under that name for a surprisingly long time, until 1942.  Then it became the Manhattan Savings Bank after some…

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  • One ShotsStreet Lamps

    TYPE 6 BISHOP CROOK, NoHo

    by Kevin Walsh November 18, 2016
    by Kevin Walsh November 18, 2016 0 comment

    Today, New York City’s Bishop Crook posts feature just one model: they are all knockoffs of the Type 24 Bishop Crook — one of a number of Bishop Crook designs…

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    JONES ALLEY, NoHo

    by Kevin Walsh February 1, 2016
    by Kevin Walsh February 1, 2016 2 comments

    Jones Alley, looking south from Bond Street According to Gil Tauber of oldstreets, in 1806 a laneway called at first Cross Lane was laid out beginning at Bleecker opposite Mott. It…

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  • One Shots

    BOWERY LANE THEATRE, NoHo

    by Kevin Walsh September 30, 2015
    by Kevin Walsh September 30, 2015 2 comments

    Passing by #330 Bowery on the NW corner of Bond a short time ago, I was marveling at the new paint job. I hadn’t seen something so purely white in…

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  • One ShotsSigns

    HERSHEY’S, NoHo

    by Kevin Walsh May 18, 2015
    by Kevin Walsh May 18, 2015 3 comments

    At #354 Bowery between East 3rd and 4th, a road that somehow resists all efforts of local developers to tame it despite the construction of numerous high-rise glass-walled apartment buildings…

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  • AlleysForgotten Slices

    SHINBONE ALLEY, NoHo

    by Kevin Walsh August 12, 2013
    by Kevin Walsh August 12, 2013 6 comments

    Suffused into the NoHo street grid is a narrow, semiprivate lane called Jones Alley. It makes two L-shaped turns as it makes its way through. Beginning at a dead end…

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  • One Shots

    THE EMPIRE STATE BUILDING, 640 Broadway

    by Kevin Walsh July 21, 2013
    by Kevin Walsh July 21, 2013 2 comments

    I have my reasons for calling 350 5th Avenue The King of All Buildings. #1 is, I really think it is, and #2, there’s the original Empire State Building, at…

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