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    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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    LADY MOODY HOUSE, Gravesend

    by Kevin Walsh November 17, 2022
    by Kevin Walsh November 17, 2022 5 comments

    In 1640, Dutch provincial governor William Kieft prosecuted a war upon the indigenous Native Americans that resulted in more than 1,000 Indian fatalities in Manhattan and western Long Island. It was…

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    1950s STREET SIGN, Gravesend

    by Kevin Walsh November 16, 2022
    by Kevin Walsh November 16, 2022 4 comments

    THE owners of a house at Van Sicklen Street and Corso Court, a private cul de sac south of Gravesend Neck Road in the heart of Gravesend, have preserved this…

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    by Kevin Walsh October 15, 2022
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    IN JEOPARDY: RYDER-VAN CLEEF HOUSE, Gravesend

    by Kevin Walsh October 5, 2022
    by Kevin Walsh October 5, 2022 5 comments

    RYDER-Van Cleef House, constructed in 1840 by Lawrence Ryder, stood at 26 Village Road north before it was moved to #38 in 1930. A Ryder daughter married a Van Cleef,…

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    GRAVESEND TO BENSONHURST

    by Kevin Walsh August 7, 2022
    by Kevin Walsh August 7, 2022 8 comments

    As I am writing this in early August 2022 we’re in the midst of a long slog of hot, humid weather which is increasingly the trend in NYC as cool…

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    SAMUEL HUBBARD HOUSE, Gravesend

    by Kevin Walsh June 28, 2022
    by Kevin Walsh June 28, 2022 1 comment

    THIS is the Samuel Hubbard House, which may now justifiably be called the John Antonides House, at #2138 McDonald Avenue north of Avenue T. The right side of the house…

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    KEN SIEGELMAN WAY, Gravesend

    by Kevin Walsh May 2, 2022
    by Kevin Walsh May 2, 2022 5 comments

    MORE than most other Brooklyn neighborhoods, Gravesend features short, one block streets known as Courts and Places. While a couple of them are “legacy roads” that existed in the colonial…

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    L&B SPUMONI GARDENS, Gravesend

    by Kevin Walsh January 1, 2021
    by Kevin Walsh January 1, 2021 3 comments

    I know, this is hardly Forgotten, but complainers and purists, bear with me today. In June 2019, Forgotten New York’s tour of Gravesend was the best-attended of the year with…

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    by Kevin Walsh December 30, 2019
    by Kevin Walsh December 30, 2019 0 comment
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    by Kevin Walsh October 31, 2019
    by Kevin Walsh October 31, 2019 0 comment
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