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BROOKLYN-QUEENS BORDER CENTENNIAL

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GUYON HOUSE RICHMONDTOWN

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5TH AVENUE SUNSET PARK

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BROOKLYN-QUEENS BORDER CENTENNIAL

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GUYON HOUSE RICHMONDTOWN

July 2, 2025 2 comments

5TH AVENUE SUNSET PARK

June 29, 2025 4 comments

BROOKLYN-QUEENS BORDER CENTENNIAL

July 3, 2025 0 comment

GUYON HOUSE RICHMONDTOWN

July 2, 2025 2 comments

5TH AVENUE SUNSET PARK

June 29, 2025 4 comments

BROOKLYN-QUEENS BORDER CENTENNIAL

July 3, 2025 0 comment

GUYON HOUSE RICHMONDTOWN

July 2, 2025 2 comments

5TH AVENUE SUNSET PARK

June 29, 2025 4 comments

BROOKLYN-QUEENS BORDER CENTENNIAL

July 3, 2025 0 comment

GUYON HOUSE RICHMONDTOWN

July 2, 2025 2 comments

5TH AVENUE SUNSET PARK

June 29, 2025 4 comments
  • Ads

    BAAR & BEARDS GARMENT DISTRICT

    by Kevin Walsh June 26, 2025
    by Kevin Walsh June 26, 2025 2 comments

    THERE are many ancient ads for wholesale clothing concerns in the Garment District, Midtown between 5th and 8th Avenues, 29th to 41st Streets. Most of them are nonsdescript, with just…

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  • One Shots

    VON BRIESEN PARK

    by Kevin Walsh June 25, 2025
    by Kevin Walsh June 25, 2025 2 comments

    OWLS Head Park is Bay Ridge’s largest public park, stretching between the Belt Parkway, Colonial Road and 68th Street, and its high hill provides a prime viewing spot during Brooklyn’s occasional…

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  • One Shots

    REVOLUTION MONUMENT, WOODLAWN

    by Kevin Walsh June 24, 2025
    by Kevin Walsh June 24, 2025 1 comment

    In January 1777, skirmishes occurred between the patriots and the British at Fort Washington Independence, located then where Giles Place and Sedgwick Avenue in Kingsbridge Heights would be, and then…

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  • One Shots

    VON GLAHN WAREHOUSE CLINTON HILL

    by Kevin Walsh June 23, 2025
    by Kevin Walsh June 23, 2025 2 comments

    I will use a shot from Street View today. I have been past Washington and Park Avenues in Clinton Hill a few times over the last few years, but somehow…

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  • Subways & TrainsWalks

    10TH AVENUE CHELSEA

    by Kevin Walsh June 21, 2025
    by Kevin Walsh June 21, 2025 7 comments

    On a warmish day in mid-April I decided to take a walk in the Chelsea area near the High Line, which as you know is the 1934 elevated freight railroad…

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  • AlleysStreet Lamps

    HARRISON ALLEY VINEGAR HILL

    by Kevin Walsh June 19, 2025
    by Kevin Walsh June 19, 2025 2 comments

    DUMBO, the section of Brooklyn beneath the Manhattan and Brooklyn Bridges, was by and large an industrial and maufacturing outpost for most of its existence; only lately has it become…

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    CHELSEA CARRIAGE HOUSE

    by Kevin Walsh June 18, 2025
    by Kevin Walsh June 18, 2025 0 comment

    HERE’S a Forgotten NY touchstone at #109 West 17th (west of 6th Avenue) I have come back to over and over since its location was pointed out to me by…

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  • Street Lamps

    WHITESTONE POLES

    by Kevin Walsh June 17, 2025
    by Kevin Walsh June 17, 2025 1 comment

    BELIEVE it or not a set of these metal “Whitestone” poles, complete with SLECO “cuplights” could be seen at the Queens side of the Roosevelt Island Bridge at Vernon Boulevard…

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  • Alleys

    DAHL COURT

    by Kevin Walsh June 16, 2025
    by Kevin Walsh June 16, 2025 2 comments

    In a realm where dead end alleys are few and far between, many years ago during my bicycle rides throughout Brooklyn I noted Dahl Court, a pleasant cul de sac…

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  • Forgotten Slices

    INSIDE THE RIDGEWOOD DEMOCRATIC CLUB

    by Kevin Walsh June 15, 2025
    by Kevin Walsh June 15, 2025 4 comments

    Last week I posted an item about Stier Place in Ridgewood, whose highlight is the 1916 Ridgewood Democratic Club. Sergey mentioned he has some photos from the interior… INSIDE the…

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  • One Shots

    BRIDGE WITH THREE NAMES

    by Kevin Walsh June 12, 2025
    by Kevin Walsh June 12, 2025 15 comments

    As this sign at the erstwhile JFK Commuter Plaza…otherwise known as “Queens Plaza”, proclaims, the Queensboro Bridge was “renamed” for popular NYC three-term mayor from 1977-1989, Edward I. Koch, in…

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    BROOKLYN ROADS 1904

    by Kevin Walsh June 11, 2025
    by Kevin Walsh June 11, 2025 6 comments

    We don’t have time machines. Oh, the changes I’d make if I could go back in time. However, we do have photographs, archives and maps to show us what things…

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