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PAERDEGAT, EAST FLATBUSH

January 25, 2024 4 comments

OUR LADY OF REFUGE, FLATBUSH

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SMALLPOX HOSPITAL, ROOSEVELT ISLAND

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  • One ShotsYou'd Never Believe You're in NYC

    STATEN ISLAND MOONSHINERS: CHARLESTON’S “STILL HOUSE”

    by Kevin Walsh January 22, 2024
    by Kevin Walsh January 22, 2024 21 comments

    Guest post PAUL SHARROTTStaten Island Historian I just came across an article in the New Yorker by Joseph Mitchell, published in1956 about him exploring along the southern part of Staten…

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  • Walks

    WALKING IN THE PARK

    by Kevin Walsh January 21, 2024
    by Kevin Walsh January 21, 2024 9 comments

    BACK In September 2022 I took a train to 15th Street/Prospect Park and walked through the park, eventually winding up at Barclays Center. I had been feeling “off” for awhile,…

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  • One Shots

    ENCHANTED VILLAGES OF GREENPOINT

    by Kevin Walsh January 19, 2024
    by Kevin Walsh January 19, 2024 2 comments

    REVISITING a long-gone Forgotten New York item from the dim past, my thoughts turned to the long-vanished Enchant(ed) Villages of Greenpoint, an art installation on Herbert and North Henry near…

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  • Neighborhoods

    BROADWAY TICKER TAPE PLAQUES

    by Kevin Walsh January 17, 2024
    by Kevin Walsh January 17, 2024 15 comments

    NEW York City’s skyline is the envy of the world, a sight tourists travel from across the globe to see. But in some places, its sidewalks are nearly as interesting,…

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  • One Shots

    COFFEY SQUARE, DYKER HEIGHTS

    by Kevin Walsh January 16, 2024
    by Kevin Walsh January 16, 2024 5 comments

    FOR my item on Fr. Joseph Martusciello Way in Woodhaven the other day, I mentioned that it was unusual to find someone I knew on a city street sign. Here’s…

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  • Forgotten Slices

    BOYCE AVENUE, BAYSIDE

    by Kevin Walsh January 15, 2024
    by Kevin Walsh January 15, 2024 7 comments

    TODAY I’ll mention a street of barely any consequence that I decided to cover while I was meandering around in the neighborhood, Boyce Avenue, one of Queens’ relatively few named…

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  • Walks

    BELL BOULEVARD PART 2

    by Kevin Walsh January 14, 2024
    by Kevin Walsh January 14, 2024 12 comments

    CONTINUED FROM PART ONE In November and December it struck me that I had never walked Bell Boulevard all the way from north to south, despite living in eastern Queens…

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  • Signs

    88 AND 88: JOSEPH MARTUSCIELLO WAY, WOODHAVEN

    by Kevin Walsh January 11, 2024
    by Kevin Walsh January 11, 2024 2 comments

    I don’t often find people I knew on street signs, but one exception is at St. Thomas Church in Woodhaven at the corner of 88th Avenue and 88th Street, which…

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  • One Shots

    DESBROSSES STREET, TRIBECA

    by Kevin Walsh January 10, 2024
    by Kevin Walsh January 10, 2024 11 comments

    ONE day, I’ll do a thorough look at the streets in northern Tribeca as I haven’t written about that area much. Unlike other parts of Tribeca and neighboring Soho, these…

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  • Street Lamps

    MANHATTAN BRIDGE LAMP MUSEUM

    by Kevin Walsh January 9, 2024
    by Kevin Walsh January 9, 2024 7 comments

    THE grand Manhattan Bridge plaza, which fronts the Bowery at Canal Street, was completed in 1916 and is the design of John M. Carrere and Thomas Hastings, who also built the New York…

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  • One Shots

    CANAL AND BOWERY

    by Kevin Walsh January 8, 2024
    by Kevin Walsh January 8, 2024 3 comments

    I squeezed off this photo while awaiting for the crowd to assemble for a Forgotten NY tour across the Manhattan and Brooklyn Bridges in June 2008. Forgotten NY tours were…

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  • Walks

    BELL BOULEVARD, PART 1

    by Kevin Walsh January 7, 2024
    by Kevin Walsh January 7, 2024 15 comments

    In November and December it struck me that I had never walked Bell Boulevard all the way from north to south, despite living in eastern Queens in Flushing and Little…

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The Great Northwest [SpliceToday]
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