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BRONX OPERA HOUSE, THE HUB

March 27, 2023 0 comment

MILLER FIELD, NEW DORP

March 26, 2023 4 comments

ELEGY: R-46 SUBWAY CAR

March 24, 2023 10 comments
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    FLETCHER’S CASTORIA, NEW BRIGHTON

    by Kevin Walsh March 23, 2023
    by Kevin Walsh March 23, 2023 5 comments

    FLETCHER’S Castoria ads have been a staple in the Forgotten New York ancient painted ads category from the very beginning, back in 1999. They can be seen frequently in photographs…

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  • One Shots

    LOTT HOUSE, MARINE PARK

    by Kevin Walsh March 22, 2023
    by Kevin Walsh March 22, 2023 1 comment

    JOHANNES Lott built a small house on his Flatlands property about 1720 on land first settled by Dutchman Hugh Aerens as far back as 1636. In the 1700s, Gerritsen Creek…

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    JOHN STREET

    by Kevin Walsh March 21, 2023
    by Kevin Walsh March 21, 2023 3 comments

    JOHN. It’s probably the most common given name in the English language. Most Johns walking around today are likely named for their father, or a prominent family member, who were…

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  • Subways & Trains

    PLATFORM LIGHTING, Corona-Flushing

    by Kevin Walsh March 20, 2023
    by Kevin Walsh March 20, 2023 5 comments

    An aspect of subways and railroads in New York City that has never gotten deserved scrutiny is the wide variety of platform lighting found around town both in the subways…

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    FINIAL DESTINATION, CITY ISLAND

    by Kevin Walsh March 19, 2023
    by Kevin Walsh March 19, 2023 10 comments

    BY SERGEY KADINSKYForgotten NY correspondent SWING drawbridges used to be very common across this city, appearing not only on the Harlem River, but also at Newtown Creek, Flushing Creek, and…

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  • One Shots

    PURCHASE BUILDING, DUMBO

    by Kevin Walsh March 18, 2023
    by Kevin Walsh March 18, 2023 6 comments

    WHEN the NYC Department of Purchase Building, at Water and New Dock Streets under the Brooklyn Bridge, was demolished in 2008, it wasn’t without protest from preservationists who wanted to…

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  • Street Lamps

    DONALD DESKEY, Huntington

    by Kevin Walsh March 16, 2023
    by Kevin Walsh March 16, 2023 1 comment

    I was in Huntington Village on Long Island a few years ago to attend a book signing for Wayne Coffey’s “They Said It Couldn’t Be Done,” his account of the…

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  • One Shots

    FIVE MILE STONE, Yorkville

    by Kevin Walsh March 15, 2023
    by Kevin Walsh March 15, 2023 3 comments

    PURELY guesswork on my part, but I’ll bet Five Mile Stone, a tavern on the corner of 2nd Avenue and East 85th Street in Yorkville, is named for a marker…

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  • One Shots

    SILK CLOCK, Midtown

    by Kevin Walsh March 14, 2023
    by Kevin Walsh March 14, 2023 7 comments

    THE famed Silk Clock in the Schwarzenbach Building, 470 Park Avenue South, periodically disappears for repairs, but it was apparently in working order when I passed it on PAS and East…

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  • One Shots

    LONG ISLAND SAFE DEPOSIT, Fulton Ferry

    by Kevin Walsh March 13, 2023
    by Kevin Walsh March 13, 2023 7 comments

    THE region of Brooklyn’s DUMBO in the immediate Fulton Ferry area is one of my favorite parts of town to poke around in and I hope to get back there…

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    OUR LADY OF LORETO

    by Kevin Walsh March 12, 2023
    by Kevin Walsh March 12, 2023 7 comments

    By SERGEY KADINSKYForgotten NY correspondent WHEN driving from Queens to the heart of Brooklyn, the Jackie Robinson Parkway abruptly ends at the intersection of Jamaica Avenue, Pennsylvania Avenue, and Bushwick…

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  • Street Lamps

    EXPRESSWAY WALKWAY POSTS

    by Kevin Walsh March 11, 2023
    by Kevin Walsh March 11, 2023 1 comment

    I haven’t devoted a page exclusively to a specific variety of lamp that was installed exclusively on pedestrian walkways that spanned expressways built in the 1950s; this variety, sort of…

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