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    HOTEL IRVIN passeth unto history

    by Kevin Walsh May 24, 2013
    by Kevin Walsh May 24, 2013 3 comments

    So how come I’m showing some blank walls on this “one shot” page? It’s all in what used to be there. I’m at the corner of 8th Avenue and West…

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  • One ShotsSigns

    TAD’S STEAKS, West 34th Street

    by Kevin Walsh May 16, 2013
    by Kevin Walsh May 16, 2013 54 comments

    I’ve never been desperate enough to eat at Tad’s, and believe me, I’m no snob when it comes to fast food. To me, Tad’s has always been associated with the…

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    “FORWARD” MARCH: Straus Square to Penn Station, Part 2

    by Kevin Walsh April 21, 2013
    by Kevin Walsh April 21, 2013 17 comments

    Continued from PART 1 Continuing my trip from Straus Square on the Lower East Side to Midtown’s Penn Station… WAYFARING MAP: Seward Park to Penn Station   222 Bowery just…

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    “FORWARD” MARCH. Straus Square to Penn Station

    by Kevin Walsh April 14, 2013
    by Kevin Walsh April 14, 2013 16 comments

    I haven’t done as many long-form specials with as many as 100 pictures per page of late. In the Age of Twitter, people are increasingly impatient with these long treatises…

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  • One Shots

    MANHEIMER

    by Kevin Walsh December 12, 2012
    by Kevin Walsh December 12, 2012 6 comments

    7th Avenue in the Penn Station area isn’t landmarked, so there’s not much I can find out about the Manheimer Building, a little 4-story job on 7th near West 32nd.…

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    TAXI ROW on 10th Avenue

    by Kevin Walsh September 18, 2012
    by Kevin Walsh September 18, 2012 3 comments

    The Far West Side (did I just name a neighborhood?) from 10th Avenue west to 12th Avenue and from the high 20s north to West 34th will be the locus…

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  • Forgotten Slices

    GIMBELS’ 32nd STREET BRIDGE

    by Kevin Walsh August 28, 2012
    by Kevin Walsh August 28, 2012 30 comments

    I have always been a big fan of inter-building bridges, by which I mean bridges that connect two buildings without accessing the ground, even though I have not had the…

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    PENNSYLVANIA STATION

    by Kevin Walsh February 13, 2012
    by Kevin Walsh February 13, 2012 27 comments

    Word came to my unbelieving ears that some younger viewers of the Grammy Awards ceremony in February 2012 were stumped when the sprightly figure of Paul McCartney appeared on their…

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  • One Shots

    LAST OF THE CHEYENNE

    by Kevin Walsh September 16, 2011
    by Kevin Walsh September 16, 2011 5 comments

    The Cheyenne Diner began as the Market Diner at 9th Avenue and 33rd Street sometime in the early 1940s. The diner manufacturer was Paramount Modular Concepts of Oakland, NJ, in business…

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  • Forgotten Slices

    FOUR CORNERS of 8.30

    by Kevin Walsh April 28, 2010
    by Kevin Walsh April 28, 2010 5 comments

    Uncharacteristically stumped for a Slice for the midweek period I turned to a familiar corner I went past all the time when I worked in the Penn Station area between 1988-1991…

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    HUBBARD HOUSE, CHEYENNE DINER SAVED

    by Kevin Walsh January 15, 2009
    by Kevin Walsh January 15, 2009 0 comment

    In early 2009, in a real estate environment that has seen home prices and rents drop precipitously and sales slow to a crawl, battle to maintain New York City’s character is…

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    32nd STREET ADS

    by Kevin Walsh June 26, 2008
    by Kevin Walsh June 26, 2008 6 comments

    6th Avenue in the Greeley Square area…from 29th north to 33rd… is undergoing change extremely rapid even by NYC standards, as structures from the early to mid 20th Century are…

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