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DAVID’S GARDEN, Flushing Meadows

August 9, 2022 0 comment

GRAVESEND TO BENSONHURST

August 7, 2022 7 comments

STRANGE PERSISTENCE: VAN ALST

August 4, 2022 4 comments
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    JACK KEMP, Terrace Gardens

    by Kevin Walsh August 3, 2022
    by Kevin Walsh August 3, 2022 3 comments

    WHILE taking a daily walk around Terrace Gardens, a development just over the Nassau line near my own Westmoreland Gardens, I found the remains of a Dole-Kemp campaign sticker. Longtime…

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    CROOKED HOUSE, Jackson Heights

    by Kevin Walsh August 2, 2022
    by Kevin Walsh August 2, 2022 6 comments

    EVERY so often when I’m in Jackson Heights, I make my way over to 31st Avenue and 81st Street to see how the Crooked House of Jackson Heights is doing.…

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    NEW DORP LIGHT

    by Kevin Walsh August 1, 2022
    by Kevin Walsh August 1, 2022 1 comment

    I’m not sure I have ever photographed the New Dorp Lighthouse in Staten Island; things get fuzzy after 23 years and counting of doing Forgotten New York. The lighthouse is…

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  • Walks

    WALKING KENMARE

    by Kevin Walsh July 31, 2022
    by Kevin Walsh July 31, 2022 18 comments

    JUST when it started to get hot in June, I wrapped up my spring 2022 Lower East Side meanderings with a walk east on Kenmare and Delancey Streets. Kenmare Street…

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  • Signs

    MOUNT EVEREST WAY, Jackson Heights

    by Kevin Walsh July 28, 2022
    by Kevin Walsh July 28, 2022 1 comment

    MOUNT Everest is the tallest mountain in the world at just over 29000 feet (about 8849 meters) and sits on the border of China and Nepal, the mountain George Mallory…

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    RACHEL CARSON PLAYGROUND, Flushing

    by Kevin Walsh July 27, 2022
    by Kevin Walsh July 27, 2022 3 comments

    I found it a bit ironic that this shot of a portion of Rachel Carson Playground at Colden Street and Geranium Avenue at Kissena Corridor Park features so much pavement…

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  • Forgotten SlicesSubways & Trains

    HUNTERS POINT AVENUE STATION

    by Kevin Walsh July 26, 2022
    by Kevin Walsh July 26, 2022 10 comments

    I haven’t written about the Hunters Point Avenue station for about a decade, but it’s one of my favorites because it’s one of a select few stations in the NYC…

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    SKYLINE DINER 2022

    by Kevin Walsh July 25, 2022
    by Kevin Walsh July 25, 2022 12 comments

    EVERY few years I check in on what’s happening with the Skyline Diner at the Hunters Point Avenue #7 train at 49th Avenue and 21st Street. You may think a…

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  • Walks

    ASTORIA PARK AND DITMARS

    by Kevin Walsh July 24, 2022
    by Kevin Walsh July 24, 2022 14 comments

    It was a pleasant day in May and I had completed the Astoria Village leg of my planned excursion that included AV, the west end of Astoria Park, and then…

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    ABBEY TAVERN, Gramercy Park

    by Kevin Walsh July 21, 2022
    by Kevin Walsh July 21, 2022 4 comments

    THE Abbey Tavern, at 3rd Avenue and East 26th Street near Gramercy Park, is one of many Irish pubs in the general area, but it is named for a much,…

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  • Forgotten Slices

    GRAND SALOON, Madison Square

    by Kevin Walsh July 20, 2022
    by Kevin Walsh July 20, 2022 3 comments

    PERHAPS McSorley’s, Fanelli’s, the Old Town Bar, and the Ear Inn are more chronicled in the city’s lore and literature (at least they have in Forgotten NY) , but the Grand…

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  • One ShotsStreet Lamps

    GENERAL ELECTRIC WHITEWAYS

    by Kevin Walsh July 19, 2022
    by Kevin Walsh July 19, 2022 4 comments

    In the 1980s, NYC’s King of Lampposts Bob Mulero acquired this shot of a rather forlorn Twin version of the GE Whiteway at a lot on 12th Avenue (in Hells…

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