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  • One ShotsStreet Lamps

    TYPE 8 LAMP, Tribeca

    by Kevin Walsh May 8, 2020
    by Kevin Walsh May 8, 2020 1 comment

    Today I’m showing an extinct variety of castiron lamp that could very occasionally be found on NYC streets. Oddly this post does not appear in either the Landmarks Preservation Commission’s…

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  • AlleysOne Shots

    COLLISTER and HUBERT, Tribeca

    by Kevin Walsh September 1, 2019
    by Kevin Walsh September 1, 2019 0 comment

    Once again, another obligation-packed weekend and work week under way, with actual paying work obligations combined with tour planning, actual tours and dentist appointments, and I’ve little time again to…

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  • Street Scenes

    SNAPSHOTS FROM THE WPA GUIDE

    by Kevin Walsh April 29, 2019
    by Kevin Walsh April 29, 2019 10 comments

    The Works Progress Administration Guide to NYC is a dense, 700-page volume with tightly-spaced type in a small but readable Garamond font, with a generous use of maps, art and…

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  • One ShotsStreet Lamps

    WARREN STREET CROOK

    by Kevin Walsh April 25, 2019
    by Kevin Walsh April 25, 2019 0 comment

    March 2019 marks Forgotten New York’s 20th anniversary. To celebrate 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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  • Roads

    CANAL STREET, SoHo-LES

    by Kevin Walsh April 14, 2019
    by Kevin Walsh April 14, 2019 7 comments

    I realized in late winter 2019 that I had never walked Canal Street from SoHo all the way east to where it ends at East Broadway, despite there being some…

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  • One ShotsStreet Lamps

    WALKER TWIN RETURNS!

    by Kevin Walsh February 26, 2019
    by Kevin Walsh February 26, 2019 4 comments

    The Department of Transportation recently removed a vintage Type 24 hybrid Twin at the corner of 6th Avenue and Walker Street in Tribeca to effect street repairs. While I had…

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  • Street Necrology

    SEEING LOST NY STREETS

    by Kevin Walsh January 2, 2019
    by Kevin Walsh January 2, 2019 6 comments

    Years ago, soon after beginning Forgotten NY, I compiled a far-from-comprehensive list of lost streets in lower Manhattan. I had a lot of fun doing it, though I’m not as…

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  • Street Lamps

    NO THANKS FOR CLASSIC NYC LAMPS

    by Kevin Walsh November 22, 2018
    by Kevin Walsh November 22, 2018 2 comments

    Word comes that a pair of classic NYC lampposts from an earlier era have been torn down, at least temporarily. This Corvington at Morris Street and a stub of Washington…

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  • One Shots

    VERIZON BUILDING MURAL, Tribeca

    by Kevin Walsh October 25, 2018
    by Kevin Walsh October 25, 2018 5 comments

    I was taken aback just a bit when getting off the A train at Canal Street recently. It happens to be one of those stops that exits into a building…

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  • One Shots

    COSMOPOLITAN HOTEL, Tribeca

    by Kevin Walsh October 12, 2018
    by Kevin Walsh October 12, 2018 2 comments

    New York City’s oldest extant hotel building is hiding in plain sight at the busy corner of West Broadway and Chambers in Tribeca. Recently redubbed as a luxury hotel called…

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  • One ShotsSigns

    COLLEGE PLACE, Tribeca

    by Kevin Walsh September 14, 2018
    by Kevin Walsh September 14, 2018 1 comment

    On the West Broadway side of the handsome brick building at the NW corner of West Broadway and Warren Street (specifically, 82 West Broadway) is a reminder of one of West…

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  • One Shots

    DOG DAYS AT AMEX, Tribeca

    by Kevin Walsh March 19, 2018
    by Kevin Walsh March 19, 2018 3 comments

    In 1867 Trinity Church sold the leafy enclave of St. John’s Park, which was on the east side of Hudson between today’s Ericsson Place and Laight Street, presently the approach…

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