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    1st AVENUE, Upper East Side

    by Kevin Walsh January 21, 2018
    by Kevin Walsh January 21, 2018 21 comments

    As I usually do in December I rode the MTA’s “holiday special” trainset, which is a unit of older cars that the Transit Museum put together from its vintage car…

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    2nd AVENUE AND ITS SUBWAY, Part 2

    by Kevin Walsh January 29, 2017
    by Kevin Walsh January 29, 2017 1 comment

    Continued from Part 1 Well, the 2nd Avenue Subway, which opened on 1/1/17, was among the most talked-about events in NYC in late 2016 and early 2017. How can it…

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  • Subways & TrainsWalks

    2ND AVENUE AND ITS SUBWAY

    by Kevin Walsh January 22, 2017
    by Kevin Walsh January 22, 2017 0 comment

    Well, the 2nd Avenue Subway, which opened on 1/1/17, was among the most talked-about events in NYC in late 2016 and early 2017. How can it be Forgotten? I’ll find…

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  • One ShotsSigns

    SUBWAY INN NEON, Upper East Side

    by Kevin Walsh December 22, 2016
    by Kevin Walsh December 22, 2016 0 comment

    I’ve never been in the Subway Inn in either of its locations, but that’s OK, I’m really here to mention its red neon sign, which survived its transplant. For eight decades…

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  • Walks

    PORT MORRIS TO UPPER EAST SIDE via Randalls Island, Part Two

    by Kevin Walsh April 9, 2016
    by Kevin Walsh April 9, 2016 11 comments

    Continued from Part One During the waning light of November 2015, we had a spectacular midweek day — it could have been the day after Thanksgiving — and word had…

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  • Forgotten Slices

    HOUSES OF EAST 92nd STREET

    by Kevin Walsh October 2, 2014
    by Kevin Walsh October 2, 2014 6 comments

    Sequestered along quiet East 92nd Street east of Park Avenue are a trio of grand old wooden houses with porches, distinctive in the Upper East Side due to their contrast…

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  • Alleys

    HENDERSON PLACE, Upper East Side

    by Kevin Walsh June 8, 2014
    by Kevin Walsh June 8, 2014 13 comments

    I found myself shambling north on York Avenue in the dishrag New York heat and humidity (wasn’t even that hot yet, being May) and was wondering if I would escape…

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  • One ShotsStreet Lamps

    ORIGINAL TWIN, Upper East Side

    by Kevin Walsh June 7, 2014
    by Kevin Walsh June 7, 2014 2 comments

    Here’s an original Twin lamppost from 5th Avenue’s original batch, first installed two to each intersection in the early 1890s. This original design was used exclusively on 5th Avenue but…

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  • One Shots

    YORK AVENUE DISCOVERY, Upper East Side

    by Kevin Walsh May 25, 2014
    by Kevin Walsh May 25, 2014 4 comments

    Keep looking down — you never know what you might find.   Several years ago FNY did a survey on the various pieces of Avenue A that still exist uptown,…

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  • Street Scenes

    LEXINGTON AVENUE in the 80s

    by Kevin Walsh May 5, 2014
    by Kevin Walsh May 5, 2014 9 comments

    For some reason Manhattan’s east side has always had more north-south avenues than the west. Between 3rd and Park (4th Avenue) comes Lexington Avenue and between Park and 5th Avenue…

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  • AdsOne Shots

    PAINTED AD, Upper East Side

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

    Are painted ads on the sides of buildings coming back? Perhaps, but based on this one at Lexington Avenue and East 83rd Street, maybe some instruction on technique is necessary.…

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  • Forgotten Slices

    WILLIAM T. STEAD, Upper East Side

    by Kevin Walsh March 6, 2014
    by Kevin Walsh March 6, 2014 3 comments

    While recently negotiating Kadath in the Cold Waste, i.e., the Upper East Side on a 25-degree afternoon, I reacquainted myself with William Thomas Stead (1849-1912), a pioneering British man of letters…

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