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KENT AVENUE 2022 PART 1

June 4, 2023 1 comment

BROCKOVICH BANDSHELL, EAST RIVER PARK

June 2, 2023 1 comment

102 GREENWICH STREET, DOWNTOWN

June 1, 2023 7 comments
  • Street LampsSubways & Trains

    IND SUBWAY ENTRANCE LAMPS, 81ST STREET

    by Kevin Walsh May 31, 2023
    by Kevin Walsh May 31, 2023 3 comments

    THOUGH Teddy Roosevelt has left the entrance of the Museum of Natural History on Central Park West (he is going to the Theodore Roosevelt Presidential Library in Medora, ND in…

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  • Forgotten Slices

    RIP ST. MICHAEL AND ST. EDWARD CHURCH, FORT GREENE

    by Kevin Walsh May 30, 2023
    by Kevin Walsh May 30, 2023 9 comments

    In the mid-20th Century, the street map of Fort Greene was drastically changed when multiple housing projects such as the Raymond Ingersoll, University Towers and Walt Whitman Houses were all…

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  • Street Scenes

    MILTON STREET, GREENPOINT

    by Kevin Walsh May 29, 2023
    by Kevin Walsh May 29, 2023 1 comment

    Here is a second entry in The Forgotten NY Overlooked Series, in which I revive old pages that somehow were not converted when FNY changed layouts and hosting services in…

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  • Walks

    CENTRAL PARK NORTH

    by Kevin Walsh May 28, 2023
    by Kevin Walsh May 28, 2023 1 comment

    Something a little unusual today: an FNY page composed in 2010 that somehow was left off the two site reconstructions done in 2011 and 2019. Some of this info may…

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  • Street Scenes

    MYRTLE MEMORIALS

    by Kevin Walsh May 28, 2023
    by Kevin Walsh May 28, 2023 5 comments

    WHEN looking for appropriate material for Memorial Day weekend my thoughts turned to Myrtle Avenue, a lengthy street that is about equal parts in Brooklyn and Queens, and I remembered…

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  • Alleys

    STABLE COURT, COOPER SQUARE

    by Kevin Walsh May 27, 2023
    by Kevin Walsh May 27, 2023 3 comments

    UNMARKED on street maps and un-signed by the Department of Transportation, Stable Court is a crack of pavement between Two Cooper Square, an upscale highrise with a rooftop pool (a…

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  • One Shots

    CUITE PARK, WINDSOR TERRACE

    by Kevin Walsh May 25, 2023
    by Kevin Walsh May 25, 2023 3 comments

    SOME of NYC’s narrowest parks can be found on either side of the Prospect Expressway, which runs in an open cut through Windsor Terrace, that narrow strip of territory between…

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  • SignsSubways & Trains

    GHOST OF SHEA STADIUM, WOODSIDE

    by Kevin Walsh May 23, 2023
    by Kevin Walsh May 23, 2023 3 comments

    ONGOING renovations at the Long Island Rail Road Woodside complex (it was last re-done between 1995 and 1998 and requires an overhaul) have revealed a “To Shea Stadium” sign at…

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  • One Shots

    UPSTAIRS AT THE QUINN

    by Kevin Walsh May 22, 2023
    by Kevin Walsh May 22, 2023 3 comments

    BETWEEN 2011 and 2018, before the Zoom era began in earnest, when I wasn’t working I would report two or three times a week to the The Quinn-Morisco Funeral Home,…

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  • Roads

    WHERE IT ALL BEGINS, PART 2

    by Kevin Walsh May 21, 2023
    by Kevin Walsh May 21, 2023 7 comments

    SINCE I haven’t been able to get out much, I have decided to continue my recently minted series Where It All Begins, that employs the magic of Google Street View…

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  • One Shots

    HAUGHWOUT BUILDING, SOHO

    by Kevin Walsh May 19, 2023
    by Kevin Walsh May 19, 2023 6 comments

    HERE’S 488 Broadway at Broome Street, the Haughwout (pronounced HA-wout) Building. Some architectural experts call it the most beautiful castiron building in NYC. It has competition there especially in Soho, but…

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  • One Shots

    DEL RIO DINER, GRAVESEND 2016

    by Kevin Walsh May 18, 2023
    by Kevin Walsh May 18, 2023 16 comments

    In July 2016 I made my way to the Del Rio Diner, Kings Highway and West 12th Street, having heard of its impending closure. NYC’s classic diners have been shutting…

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