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    857 RIVERSIDE DRIVE, Washington Heights

    by Kevin Walsh January 22, 2021
    by Kevin Walsh January 22, 2021 7 comments

    Riverside Drive gets a little crazy in Washington Heights. Part of it angles in toward Broadway, but never quite reaches it, while the main part is bridged above West 158th…

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  • Forgotten Slices

    CABRINI BOULEVARD, Washington Heights

    by Kevin Walsh October 16, 2019
    by Kevin Walsh October 16, 2019 11 comments

    Frances Xavier Cabrini (1850-1917) has been in the news recently. The Catholic saint, born in Lodi on the Italian peninsula (then a part of the Austrian empire) became a nun…

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    HERMAN “DENNY” FARRELL BRIDGE, Washington Heights

    by Kevin Walsh January 16, 2018
    by Kevin Walsh January 16, 2018 2 comments

    I haven’t been to the Hudson River waterfront in Washington Heights of late, and I had no idea that a new pedestrian bridge had opened in September 2017. I hustled over…

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  • Walks

    UPTOWN TRINITY CEMETERY to YANKEE STADIUM, Part 1

    by Kevin Walsh November 19, 2017
    by Kevin Walsh November 19, 2017 7 comments

    It was a gorgeous day when I did a reconnaissance walk for a since-completed Forgotten NY tour of Uptown Trinity Cemetery. So much so that when I was finished, I…

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    STREET VENT, Washington Heights

    by Kevin Walsh November 14, 2017
    by Kevin Walsh November 14, 2017 0 comment

    At the end of yet another ForgottenTour some of the faithful and I were making our way to the traditional diner stop (in this case, the Coral, at Broadway and West 158th)…

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    EDWARD M. MORGAN PLACE, Washington Heights

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

    Edward M. Morgan Place is one of the busiest one-block streets in Manhattan, running northwest from Broadway and West 157th Street one block to West 158th Street, where its route…

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  • Forgotten Slices

    MITCHEL SQUARE, Washington Heights

    by Kevin Walsh September 4, 2017
    by Kevin Walsh September 4, 2017 7 comments

    Mitchel Square, a triangle formed by Broadway, St. Nicholas Avenue and West 167th Street, honors NYC mayor John Purroy Mitchel, known as the Boy Mayor because he was, and remains, the…

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  • Forgotten Slices

    ANOTHER TUNNEL TO NOWHERE

    by Kevin Walsh April 17, 2017
    by Kevin Walsh April 17, 2017 6 comments

    By SERGEY KADINSKY Forgotten NY correspondent   When driving north on the Henry Hudson Parkway past Riverbank State Park , it is easy to not notice a tunnel in the…

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  • One ShotsStreet Lamps

    DIFFERENT STOPLIGHTS, 1999

    by Kevin Walsh March 21, 2017
    by Kevin Walsh March 21, 2017 3 comments

    Since the early 1950s, thick-shafted, massive guy wired stoplights have guarded busier NYC intersections. They now number in the thousands since their introduction. However, very occasionally around town, you would…

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  • Walks

    CROTONA PARK to HIGH BRIDGE, Bronx, Part 2

    by Kevin Walsh October 23, 2016
    by Kevin Walsh October 23, 2016 6 comments

    Continued from Part 1 Remembering once again that I don’t do enough Bronx posts, I set off on one of the most brain-meltingly humid days of the summer to parade…

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  • Walks

    WASHINGTON HEIGHTS TO YANKEE STADIUM, via THE HIGH BRIDGE, Part 1

    by Kevin Walsh July 12, 2015
    by Kevin Walsh July 12, 2015 16 comments

    I’ll admit, I messed up a bit on this particular walk. For much of the tour, I had the camera at the wrong setting and many of the photos are…

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  • One Shots

    REYNOLD’S CAFE, Washington Heights

    by Kevin Walsh March 6, 2015
    by Kevin Walsh March 6, 2015 0 comment

    Reynold’s, the longtime Irish bar on Broadway and West 180th Street in Washington Heights, has decided to call it a career after several decades. The cause, according to DNA Info,…

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