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    SEAPORT WANDERING

    by Kevin Walsh January 13, 2019
    by Kevin Walsh January 13, 2019 7 comments

    A little inside baseball before I begin — this is the first longform post I am doing after the Forgotten New York revamp, and I’m going to have to get…

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  • One ShotsStreet Necrology

    ROOSEVELT STREET, Seaport

    by Kevin Walsh December 24, 2018
    by Kevin Walsh December 24, 2018 0 comment

    While wandering around in the Seaport area under the spaghetti cluster of elevated roads that connect the Brooklyn Bridge to the Franklin D. Roosevelt Drive, I spotted this unusual road…

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  • One Shots

    258 FRONT STREET, 1999

    by Kevin Walsh April 1, 2017
    by Kevin Walsh April 1, 2017 2 comments

    259 Front Street, on the corner of Dover, is one of the oldest houses in the South Street Seaport area. It was constructed in 1808 for flour merchant David Lydig…

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  • Forgotten Slices

    KEUFFEL & ESSER BUILDING, Seaport

    by Kevin Walsh June 11, 2015
    by Kevin Walsh June 11, 2015 6 comments

    In my career in graphic arts as a proofreader, typesetter, copywriter, and mechanical artist (which are all, I realize, becoming jobs of the past) there was a time when I…

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  • One Shots

    BRIDGE CAFE, South Street Seaport

    by Kevin Walsh February 5, 2015
    by Kevin Walsh February 5, 2015 2 comments

    According to sources such as Richard McDermott of The New York Chronicle and Steve Redlauer and Ellen Williams of “The Historic Shops & Restaurants of New York”, the Bridge Cafe, at Water and…

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  • Forgotten Slices

    MEYER’S HOTEL, South Street Seaport

    by Kevin Walsh July 7, 2014
    by Kevin Walsh July 7, 2014 8 comments

    By JOE SCHIAFFINO Special to Forgotten New York The Harriet Onderdonk Building at South Street and Peck Slip, later known as Meyer’s Hotel, was built in 1873 at a cost…

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  • One ShotsSigns

    ENGINE 6, Manhattan

    by Kevin Walsh January 10, 2014
    by Kevin Walsh January 10, 2014 5 comments

    An old-school gold and black Manhattan Beekman Street street sign is mounted in front of a fire engine belonging to the Engine 6 firehouse in lower Manhattan. Such signs were…

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  • One Shots

    PECK SLIP POST OFFICE condemned

    by Kevin Walsh April 22, 2013
    by Kevin Walsh April 22, 2013 3 comments

    #1 Peck Slip in the South Street Seaport area has been condemned for a couple of years to make way for the new PS 343, but it appears this is…

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  • One Shots

    FINNAN HADDIE

    by Kevin Walsh October 31, 2011
    by Kevin Walsh October 31, 2011 1 comment

    Even though the South Street Seaport area ceased to be home to NYC’s foremost fish wholesaler when the Fish Market moved to Hunt’s Point, Bronx, in 2005, there are still…

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  • Street Scenes

    FULTON STREET, Manhattan

    by Kevin Walsh May 11, 2003
    by Kevin Walsh May 11, 2003 6 comments

    Fulton Street, which runs in Lower Manhattan from Church Street east to theSouth Street Seaport, is a crazy quilt of mom and pop businesses, souvenir tourist traps, historic cast iron and…

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