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    D’AIUTO, Penn Station area

    by Kevin Walsh April 10, 2018
    by Kevin Walsh April 10, 2018 13 comments

    Small wrapped “Baby Watson” cheesecakes were a staple at NYC grocery checkout counters until 2013, when the company that produced them, D’Aiuto, bit the dust, and along with it, their…

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  • Forgotten Slices

    SCENES FROM WEST 34th

    by Kevin Walsh May 30, 2017
    by Kevin Walsh May 30, 2017 3 comments

    I was a bit early for the film I was going to see at The Loews 34th (Alien: Covenant, which checks most of the boxes of menacing alien tropes in…

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  • One Shots

    BLARNEY STONE, Penn Station

    by Kevin Walsh March 17, 2017
    by Kevin Walsh March 17, 2017 15 comments

    The Blarney Stone bar on 8th Avenue between West 31st and 32nd near Penn Station is among the last of its breed. The chain of bars in its heyday once…

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  • One Shots

    TRES HUEVOS, 8th Avenue

    by Kevin Walsh July 31, 2014
    by Kevin Walsh July 31, 2014 8 comments

    My title refers to a nickname radio legend Don Imus gave himself awhile back because he was born with three testicles instead of the usual complement. I may be a…

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  • Forgotten Slices

    HOTEL VIGILANT, Penn South

    by Kevin Walsh June 2, 2014
    by Kevin Walsh June 2, 2014 1 comment

    No, I haven’t been in the Hotel Vigilant, #370 8th Avenue between West 28th and West 29th. It’s a part of town I’m quite familiar with, though. For a few…

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    WEST 30TH STREET PART 2

    by Kevin Walsh November 18, 2010
    by Kevin Walsh November 18, 2010 19 comments

    Continuing on West 30th after FNY’s survey between 7th and 8th Avenues, I had previously also chronicled the four corners of West 30th and 8th Avenue, where there’s an ancient wall dog ad…

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  • FNY CROSSTOWN

    WEST 30TH STREET PART 1

    by Kevin Walsh November 11, 2010
    by Kevin Walsh November 11, 2010 4 comments

    I am quite familiar with the blocks and side streets on the west side of Manhattan in the Penn Station area. I served two separate stints in this part of town,…

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