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STATION AND DEPOT ROADS, Flushing

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MARBLETTE CORPORATION, Long Island City

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YOUR DAILY PODPHONE, Brooklyn Heights

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  • One Shots

    FLATBUSH TOWN HALL

    by Kevin Walsh February 18, 2021
    by Kevin Walsh February 18, 2021 2 comments

    Central Flatbush, clustered around Flatbush and Church Avenues, boasts a number of historic buildings in a relatively small area, similar to other originally Dutch Colonial NYC towns like Flushing and…

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    HIGBIE HOUSE, Springfield Gardens

    by Kevin Walsh February 16, 2021
    by Kevin Walsh February 16, 2021 4 comments

    In Queens, Springfield Boulevard and Springfield Gardens are a bit misunderstood. The belief persists that the Springfields in these names originated from when Creedmoor State Hospital was a rifle range,…

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    JACOB RIIS, Riis Park

    by Kevin Walsh February 15, 2021
    by Kevin Walsh February 15, 2021 2 comments

    Danish-born crusading journalist and photographer Jacob Riis (1849-1914) made his home in Richmond Hill, Queens, beginning in 1886. In 1887, Riis photographed the squalid, inhumane conditions prevalent in New York City’s…

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  • Walks

    GRAND STREET, Williamsburg

    by Kevin Walsh February 14, 2021
    by Kevin Walsh February 14, 2021 18 comments

    I braved the ice floes in the first week of February 2021 and hit the 7 and G trains to the Broadway stop at Union Avenue. I had a desire…

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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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  • Street Scenes

    SANDS STREET, Navy Yard

    by Kevin Walsh February 11, 2021
    by Kevin Walsh February 11, 2021 9 comments

    Sergey’s recent piece on the Brooklyn Navy Yard reminded me of the street that I think has changed more than any other in New York City since the mid-20th Century.…

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  • One Shots

    PULASKI BRIDGE, Newtown Creek

    by Kevin Walsh February 10, 2021
    by Kevin Walsh February 10, 2021 3 comments

    Andrzej Tadeusz Bonawentura Kościuszko isn’t the only Polish Revolutionary-era patriot honored with a bridge across Newtown Creek. Manhattan Avenue formerly connected with Vernon Avenue (now Boulevard) in Long Island City via a…

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  • Forgotten Slices

    VILLAGE CIGARS, Greenwich Village

    by Kevin Walsh February 10, 2021
    by Kevin Walsh February 10, 2021 5 comments

    The intersection of 7th Avenue South and Christopher Street has existed only since the 1910s, when 7th Avenue was hammered south to connect 7th and Greenwich Avenues with Varick and…

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  • Forgotten Slices

    CONCRETE PLANT PARK, Bronx River

    by Kevin Walsh February 9, 2021
    by Kevin Walsh February 9, 2021 5 comments

    Concrete Plant Park, built along the Bronx River between 2004 and 2009 for about 10 million dollars (much of which was spent in removing petroleum-tainted soil from the site), runs…

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  • Street Scenes

    THE STREETS OF BROOKLYN NAVY YARD

    by Kevin Walsh February 7, 2021
    by Kevin Walsh February 7, 2021 8 comments

    Time for another Longform Sunday, as I’ve been doing since Forgotten NY got started back in March 1999. This week, though, Sergey has supplied me with some more material, so…

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  • One Shots

    CROWN JEWEL OF KREISCHERVILLE

    by Kevin Walsh February 5, 2021
    by Kevin Walsh February 5, 2021 1 comment

    Staten Island is calling. 2020 was the first year I didn’t set foot on the island of myth since Forgotten New York began “principal photography” in 1998. In fact I…

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  • One Shots

    WOMRATH’S, Forest Hills

    by Kevin Walsh February 4, 2021
    by Kevin Walsh February 4, 2021 9 comments

    From the NYC Municipal Archives, here’s a look at 71-66 Austin Street in Forest Hills which then housed a Womrath’s library. Since I remember Womrath’s in Bay Ridge as a…

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