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    ALPINE REALTY, Bay Ridge

    by Kevin Walsh October 28, 2021
    by Kevin Walsh October 28, 2021 0 comment

    I lived in Bay Ridge from 1957-1993 and have always been an admirer of the woodcut Alpine Realty sign at 5th Avenue and 84th, a block away from my childhood…

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    RELIANCE CLEANERS, Bay Ridge

    by Kevin Walsh September 2, 2021
    by Kevin Walsh September 2, 2021 6 comments

    FOR 8 years or so, from 1982-1990, I lived in a railroad-flat type apartment at #654 73rd Street, which until 1960 or so was smack in the middle of the…

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  • AdsOne Shots

    ROCCO’S FAMOUS CALAMARI, Bay Ridge

    by Kevin Walsh November 19, 2020
    by Kevin Walsh November 19, 2020 3 comments

    A relatively new “ghost sign” can be found at 6408 Fort Hamilton Parkway, where there is still a painted ad for Rocco’s Famous Calamari. The Italian eatery was founded by…

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  • Alleys

    FOREST PLACE, Bay Ridge

    by Kevin Walsh July 16, 2020
    by Kevin Walsh July 16, 2020 5 comments

    I lived in Bay Ridge between 1957 and 1993; for those who usually don’t have to deal with people born in the 1950s, I am impossibly old now. I became…

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  • EatsOne Shots

    BLIMPIE, Bay Ridge

    by Kevin Walsh April 23, 2020
    by Kevin Walsh April 23, 2020 18 comments

    I’ve mentioned my preference for Blimpie sub sandwiches often in Facebook, but less often in Forgotten NY. Blimpie has largely lost out in the fast food franchise sandwich sweepstakes, but…

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  • One ShotsSubways & Trains

    BAY RIDGE LIRR BRANCH REVIVAL?

    by Kevin Walsh January 24, 2020
    by Kevin Walsh January 24, 2020 10 comments

    The MTA is doing a $1 million study to possibly revive the Long Island Rail Road Bay Ridge Branch for passenger service, which hasn’t been there since 1924. Currently, much…

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  • Street Scenes

    SHORE ROAD PARK, Bay Ridge

    by Kevin Walsh August 4, 2019
    by Kevin Walsh August 4, 2019 36 comments

    Back in Bay Ridge again, eh? I can’t help it, I lived there for 35 years after my birth at Maimonides Hospital in Borough Park in 1957. Gradually my connections…

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  • Walks

    BAY RIDGE BLUNDERING

    by Kevin Walsh March 16, 2019
    by Kevin Walsh March 16, 2019 17 comments

    If you recall from last week, I started off at the Avenue U station in Gravesend and made my way northwest, up through Bath Beach, and left off at the…

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  • AlleysOne Shots

    WOGAN TERRACE, Bay Ridge

    by Kevin Walsh February 28, 2019
    by Kevin Walsh February 28, 2019 10 comments

    March 2019 marks Forgotten New York’s 20th anniversary. To mark the occasion, I’ve re-scanned about 150 key images from the early days of FNY from 35MM prints. In the early…

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  • Forgotten Slices

    DYKER AND EIRIK, Bay Ridge

    by Kevin Walsh December 14, 2018
    by Kevin Walsh December 14, 2018 6 comments

    Between 1959-1964, when I was just being formatted, the city bruited the Gowanus Expressway through my neighborhood, which connected the BQE and the Belt Parkway junction at 65th Street and…

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  • One Shots

    ALPINE THEATRE, Bay Ridge 1941

    by Kevin Walsh November 20, 2018
    by Kevin Walsh November 20, 2018 3 comments

    Here’s what was the Loew’s Alpine Theatre at 5th Avenue and Bay Ridge Avenue (69th Street) in 1941. The Alpine was opened in 1921 and was a movie theater from…

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  • NeighborhoodsWalks

    BAY RIDGE NOSTALGIA

    by Kevin Walsh August 6, 2018
    by Kevin Walsh August 6, 2018 50 comments

    I make no apologies for being a nostalgist. I spent my first 35 years in Bay Ridge and return often, first to visit my father, who passed away in 2003,…

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