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    YORKVILLE CLOCK

    by Kevin Walsh February 12, 2021
    by Kevin Walsh February 12, 2021 6 comments

    The Yorkville Clock at 1501 3rd Avenue and East 85th Street has been here since 1898 — lasting an entire century and parts of two others. Like many other sidewalk clocks it originally…

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    WANKEL’S HARDWARE, Yorkville

    by Kevin Walsh March 22, 2018
    by Kevin Walsh March 22, 2018 0 comment

    I was shuffling about the Upper East Side a few years ago when I spotted this extraordinarily painted building front in red, white and blue on 3rd Avenue between East…

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  • Walks

    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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  • One Shots

    GLASER’S BAKE SHOP, Yorkville

    by Kevin Walsh December 21, 2017
    by Kevin Walsh December 21, 2017 1 comment

    In June 2017 I visited the doctor for the first time in awhile. My weight, blood pressure and blood sugar were all up, not to dangerous levels that would make…

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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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    CHURCH OF ADVENT HOPE, Yorkville

    by Kevin Walsh March 23, 2016
    by Kevin Walsh March 23, 2016 5 comments

    I was hustling west on East 87th Street a couple of years ago on a day that couldn’t figure out whether to sun or rain when I spotted this neat…

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  • One Shots

    HOOK & LADDER 13, Yorkville

    by Kevin Walsh November 20, 2014
    by Kevin Walsh November 20, 2014 6 comments

    I was skulking through Yorkville this past spring in and out of the rain when I noticed this superannuated relic on East 87th just east of Lexington Avenue. It’s a…

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  • One Shots

    OUR LADY OF GOOD COUNSEL, Yorkville

    by Kevin Walsh October 30, 2014
    by Kevin Walsh October 30, 2014 5 comments

    On the unholiest day of the year, I’m featuring a church, Our Lady of Good Counsel Roman Catholic Church, constructed on 230 East 90th between 2nd and 3rd Avenues in…

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  • One ShotsStreet Lamps

    RUPPERT and YORKVILLE TOWERS

    by Kevin Walsh October 30, 2014
    by Kevin Walsh October 30, 2014 11 comments

    I was meeting someone in Yorkville a couple of weeks ago and I was a bit early, so I started shuffling about, and decided to investigate these massive edifices between…

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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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  • One ShotsStreet Lamps

    2nd AVENUE LAMP, Yorkville

    by Kevin Walsh May 10, 2014
    by Kevin Walsh May 10, 2014 0 comment

    Getting the job done at 2nd Avenue and East 87th Street in Yorkville, but not a bit more, is this bare-bones lamppost. For the past few years, 2nd Avenue has…

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    CLOCKS OF YORKVILLE

    by Kevin Walsh August 20, 2009
    by Kevin Walsh August 20, 2009 3 comments

    I have always wanted to do a big page on NYC’s hundreds of street clocks, big and small. At first I restricted myself to freestanding sidewalk clocks, and then I did a…

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