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    OLD TOWN BAR, Union Square

    by Kevin Walsh November 3, 2022
    by Kevin Walsh November 3, 2022 6 comments

    I was first introduced to the Old Town Bar, 45 East 18th Street between Broadway and Park Avenue South, on a sweltering summer afternoon in 1981, in the 99th year of its…

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  • FNY CROSSTOWN

    16th STREET Part 2

    by Kevin Walsh November 30, 2020
    by Kevin Walsh November 30, 2020 7 comments

    Continued from Part 1 It’s time for another entry in FNY’s Cross Streets of NYC series!  I’ve done them piecemeal in the past, but I’ve already posted 20th Street, 21st Street, 22nd Street, 17th…

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  • FNY CROSSTOWN

    16th STREET

    by Kevin Walsh November 29, 2020
    by Kevin Walsh November 29, 2020 5 comments

    It’s time for another entry in FNY’s Cross Streets of NYC series!  I’ve done them piecemeal in the past, but I’ve already posted 20th Street, 21st Street, 22nd Street, 17th Street, 10th Street, 6th Street, 18th Street, 25th…

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  • One ShotsSubways & Trains

    14th STREET EAGLES

    by Kevin Walsh October 28, 2020
    by Kevin Walsh October 28, 2020 14 comments

    In October 2020 FNY featured the 34th Street station complex at Herald and Greeley Squares, where the Broadway (BMT), 6th Avenue (IND) and PATH trains to New Jersey all come…

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  • FNY CROSSTOWN

    18th STREET

    by Kevin Walsh May 31, 2020
    by Kevin Walsh May 31, 2020 6 comments

    Continuing my Manhattan cross streets series. I’ve done them piecemeal in the past, but I’ve already posted 20th Street, 22nd Street, 17th Street and 10th Street in this batch, and 14th Street as well in autumn…

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  • FNY CROSSTOWN

    17th STREET

    by Kevin Walsh April 1, 2020
    by Kevin Walsh April 1, 2020 9 comments

    Continuing my Manhattan cross streets series. I’ve done them piecemeal in the past, but I’ve already posted 20th Street and 22nd Street in March with more to follow. Today’s entry:…

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  • One Shots

    EVOLUTION OF IRVING AND E. 14th

    by Kevin Walsh February 25, 2020
    by Kevin Walsh February 25, 2020 6 comments

    The northwest corner of East 14th Street and Irving Place is currently dominated by a combined residential-commercial complex, Zeckendorf Towers, completed in 1987. The complex includes entrances to the large…

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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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  • Forgotten SlicesSubways & Trains

    THE REAL SUBWAY INN

    by Kevin Walsh September 26, 2018
    by Kevin Walsh September 26, 2018 6 comments

    In midtown for many years (since 1937!) there has been a bar known as the Subway Inn, so named for its proximity to the underground complex at Lexington Avenue that…

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  • One Shots

    UNION SQUARE FOUNTAIN

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

    One of Union Square’s statues and memorials that might het overlooked because it is somewhat secreted behind the Farmers Market (when the vendors are there) on Union Square West between…

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  • One ShotsStreet Lamps

    ORIGINAL TWIN, Union Square

    by Kevin Walsh September 30, 2016
    by Kevin Walsh September 30, 2016 0 comment

    Known officially as a Type 24M Twin, this post holds down the southeast corner of 5th Avenue and East 19th Street a few blocks from Union Square. I am using the…

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  • One ShotsSubways & Trains

    HUDSON & MANHATTAN RAILROAD, Union Square area

    by Kevin Walsh April 13, 2016
    by Kevin Walsh April 13, 2016 2 comments

    The Hudson & Manhattan Railroad is unfamiliar to most modern-day commuters, but transit buffs recognize it as the present-day PATH train, an acronym for the Port Authority Trans-Hudson Railroad —…

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