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    HOT BAGELS, Bay Ridge

    by Kevin Walsh January 15, 2023
    by Kevin Walsh January 15, 2023 11 comments

    WHEN The Retrologist‘s Rolando Pujol posted this photo of a shop called “Hot Bagels” I recognized it immediately, as I had passed it for many years while slouching down 86th…

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  • Alleys

    BARWELL TERRACE, Bay Ridge

    by Kevin Walsh November 22, 2022
    by Kevin Walsh November 22, 2022 3 comments

    THOUGH Brooklyn and Manhattan are largely bereft of alleys and dead ends (both boroughs have eradicated many of them in the name of urban renewal), some neighborhoods have more than…

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  • One Shots

    NARROWS COFFEE SHOP, Bay Ridge

    by Kevin Walsh September 26, 2022
    by Kevin Walsh September 26, 2022 5 comments

    SADLY the Narrows Coffee Shop closed in 2020, and I only had the pleasure of eating there once. At #10001 4th Avenue, it’s one of a handful of addresses in…

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  • One Shots

    POLY PREP, Bay Ridge

    by Kevin Walsh September 8, 2022
    by Kevin Walsh September 8, 2022 12 comments

    POLY Prep Country Day School has had its distinctive Georgian campus on 7th Avenue and 92nd Street since 1916. Its four-sided clock tower is a Bay Ridge landmark and can…

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  • One ShotsSigns

    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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  • Signs

    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 37 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 18 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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