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    LOUIS MATTIA, Turtle Bay

    by Kevin Walsh September 4, 2018
    by Kevin Walsh September 4, 2018 2 comments

    Louis Mattia ran a lamp repair shop on 2nd Avenue off East 52nd Street from 1960 to 1995. His impressive aqua green sidewalk sign, with gold serif lettering and PL(aza)…

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    EAST 45TH STREET, Turtle Bay

    by Kevin Walsh April 28, 2018
    by Kevin Walsh April 28, 2018 13 comments

    In the spring of 2018, I was working in a building from 12 midnight to 8 am I last worked in 30 years ago. The company I worked for then, Photo-Lettering,went…

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    DAG HAMMARSKJÖLD PLAZA, Turtle Bay

    by Kevin Walsh January 8, 2018
    by Kevin Walsh January 8, 2018 0 comment

    Dag Hammarskjöld Plaza runs from 2nd Avenue east to 1st Avenue at East 47th Street, constructed by the NYC Parks department shortly after the UN opened on 1st Avenue in…

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    53rd STREET WOODFRAMES

    by Kevin Walsh December 22, 2017
    by Kevin Walsh December 22, 2017 6 comments

    A pair of French Second Empire (recognizable by slanted roofs and dormer windows) clapboard houses built by Robert and James Cunningham in 1866 have somehow survived at 312 and 314…

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  • Tours

    RECAP: FORGOTTENTOUR #112: TURTLE BAY

    by Kevin Walsh October 31, 2017
    by Kevin Walsh October 31, 2017 0 comment

    FNY’s tour of Turtle Bay, October 16, 2016, was held back a week because of pouring rain a week earlier on October 9, and the crowd was a bit small,…

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  • One Shots

    GOULD’S STABLES, Turtle Bay

    by Kevin Walsh February 2, 2017
    by Kevin Walsh February 2, 2017 0 comment

    In early 2017 I was temp-ing at the Bloomingdale’s offices, looking over catalogs and mailings. During lunch or after work, being the Forgotten NY webmaster, I wandered around to see…

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  • One Shots

    919 3rd AVENUE and P.J. CLARKE’S, Turtle Bay

    by Kevin Walsh January 25, 2017
    by Kevin Walsh January 25, 2017 1 comment

    While stumbling around the Turtle Bay area at 3rd Avenue and East 55th Street in 2014, I had no idea I would someday work in the beetling, gray-black #919 3rd,…

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  • Neighborhoods

    TURTLE BAY, Manhattan

    by Kevin Walsh October 30, 2016
    by Kevin Walsh October 30, 2016 2 comments

    Turtle Bay, in the East 40s and 50s from Park Avenue east to the East River, likely takes its name from a Dutch term meaning “bent blade,” probably referencing the…

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  • One Shots

    TRYGVIE LIE PLAZA, Turtle Bay

    by Kevin Walsh October 17, 2016
    by Kevin Walsh October 17, 2016 0 comment

    Turtle Bay, in the East 40s and 50s from Park Avenue east to the East River, likely takes its name from a Dutch term meaning “bent blade,” probably referencing the…

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  • One ShotsSigns

    HAPPY ANNIVERSARY, RAY BARI, Turtle Bay

    by Kevin Walsh February 25, 2016
    by Kevin Walsh February 25, 2016 2 comments

    Sicilian immigrant Joseph Bari opened his first pizzeria in 1973, purchasing a –what else — Ray’s Pizza at 3rd Avenue and East 76th Street and renaming it for himself, in…

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    DUNSCOMB PLACE, Turtle Bay

    by Kevin Walsh October 28, 2015
    by Kevin Walsh October 28, 2015 0 comment

    Much of Manhattan is a numbered street grid, with the exception of lower Manhattan below Houston Street, Greenwich Village, and many streets far uptown in Inwood and the Dyckman Street…

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  • One ShotsStreet Lamps

    BEEKMAN PLACE CROOK

    by Kevin Walsh August 18, 2015
    by Kevin Walsh August 18, 2015 1 comment

    There is a classic Bishop Crook post in the United Nations area that I haven’t featured in FNY much over the years. The reason is simple. I never seem to…

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