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    FARLEY ABIDES AT THE MOYNIHAN

    by Kevin Walsh January 8, 2023
    by Kevin Walsh January 8, 2023 10 comments

    THE McKim, Mead and White architectural firm designed the enormous former James Farley post office, which opened in 1913, as a companion to Pennsylvania Station, just across 8th Avenue. A…

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  • Signs

    TRACK 16 SIGN, Penn Station

    by Kevin Walsh November 25, 2021
    by Kevin Walsh November 25, 2021 18 comments

    As Midtown commuters know, Penn Station has been a complete morass of construction, at least for Long Island Rail Road customers, as the Metropolitan Transportation Authority is expanding the main…

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  • Forgotten Slices

    THE LOST MUSEUM, Penn Station area

    by Kevin Walsh March 2, 2021
    by Kevin Walsh March 2, 2021 6 comments

    As you may recall, I did a through exploration of the former Farley Post Office and Daniel P. Moynihan Train Hall when it opened back in January. But I’ve recently…

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  • Subways & Trains

    MOYNIHAN TRAIN HALL, Penn Station

    by Kevin Walsh January 3, 2021
    by Kevin Walsh January 3, 2021 14 comments

    On January 1, 2021 I resolved to do exactly what I had done 4 years earlier in 2017, when I visited the four new Second Avenue Subway stations, walking between…

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  • One Shots

    FARLEY MARKETING STUDIO, Penn Station

    by Kevin Walsh October 9, 2020
    by Kevin Walsh October 9, 2020 2 comments

    The McKim, Mead and White architectural firm designed the enormous James Farley post office, which opened in 1913, as a companion to Pennsylvania Station, just across 8th Avenue. A monumental…

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  • FNY CROSSTOWN

    34th STROLL

    by Kevin Walsh July 26, 2020
    by Kevin Walsh July 26, 2020 16 comments

    The summer of 2020 has been among the hottest in years, rivaling the ones I recall in 1988 and 1999. Nevertheless I was itching for a Manhattan stroll, as I…

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  • One Shots

    WEBSTER APARTMENTS, Penn Station

    by Kevin Walsh March 11, 2020
    by Kevin Walsh March 11, 2020 2 comments

    The Webster Apartments, an impressive brick 13-story building at West 34th Street and Dyer Avenue (the entrance ramp to the Lincoln Tunnel) has provided affordable accommodations for NYC’s “working girls”…

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  • One ShotsSubways & Trains

    OLD PENN STATION IN VIEW

    by Kevin Walsh November 30, 2019
    by Kevin Walsh November 30, 2019 3 comments

    Some of the original Penn Station has been in view from the south end of the southbound local IRT station serving the #1 train, as a passageway constructed (likely by…

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  • One Shots

    MARKET DINER, 1940

    by Kevin Walsh December 29, 2018
    by Kevin Walsh December 29, 2018 1 comment

    Here’s a photo from the NYC Municipal Archives of the Market Diner on the NW corner of 9th Avenue and West 33rd Street. At the time, the diner occupied the…

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  • One Shots

    MORE PENN STATION REMNANTS

    by Kevin Walsh August 9, 2018
    by Kevin Walsh August 9, 2018 7 comments

    By GARY FONVILLE Forgotten NY correspondent How many of us have walked by this building at 242 W. 31st Street , across from Madison Square Garden, and never gave it…

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  • One ShotsSubways & Trains

    MORE OLD PENN STATION

    by Kevin Walsh March 23, 2018
    by Kevin Walsh March 23, 2018 6 comments

    The old Penn Station is not completely gone. If you poke around long enough in the basement of Madison Square Garden, which is what the ‘new’ Penn Station became, you…

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  • One Shots

    240 WEST 30th STREET, Penn Station area

    by Kevin Walsh May 7, 2015
    by Kevin Walsh May 7, 2015 3 comments

    240 West 30th Street is the oldest building on the block between 7th and 8th Avenue other than the 1872 St. John the Baptist Church. It was constructed in 1894 as…

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