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BORROWED ADS

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NIEDERSTEIN’S AT ARBY’S

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    VERNON BOULEVARD, Hunters Point-Ravenswood

    by Kevin Walsh January 17, 2021
    by Kevin Walsh January 17, 2021 6 comments

    This article is an expanded version of a SpliceToday post from December 9, 2020. A post-Thanksgiving trip saw me heading up Vernon Boulevard from Hunters Point to Ravenswood. At the…

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  • One Shots

    ICAHN STADIUM, Randalls Island

    by Kevin Walsh January 14, 2021
    by Kevin Walsh January 14, 2021 3 comments

    Icahn Stadium, opened April 23, 2005, offers a 400-meter Mondo Super X Performance running track, flanked by covered spectator seating for 5,000 and features modern locker rooms, showers as well as…

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  • One ShotsSigns

    DANNENHOFFER’S OPALESCENT, Bushwick

    by Kevin Walsh January 13, 2021
    by Kevin Walsh January 13, 2021 2 comments

    Now, that’s a mouthful. Back in the late 1990s and early 2000s, when I was canvassing neighborhoods for Forgotten New York, I “reconnected” with a painted ad for Dannenhoffer Opalescent…

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  • AlleysOne Shots

    SOUND STREET, Astoria

    by Kevin Walsh January 12, 2021
    by Kevin Walsh January 12, 2021 2 comments

    Sound Street runs for only a block in Astoria, between 23rd Avenue and Astoria Boulevard, one-way south, yet it does bring traffic to a bridge crossing the Grand Central Parkway.…

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    CHARLOTTE STREET, Crotona Park

    by Kevin Walsh January 12, 2021
    by Kevin Walsh January 12, 2021 6 comments

    Charlotte Street, a three-block thoroughfare running from Crotona Park east across Boston Road to Jennings Street and Minford Place, was briefly the best-known, and most infamous, street in the Bronx…

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  • Walks

    5th AVENUE, Park Slope

    by Kevin Walsh January 10, 2021
    by Kevin Walsh January 10, 2021 11 comments

    Back in October I was roving Brooklyn, Queens and Manhattan quite a bit. In the year of Covid, I resumed roaming about, including riding the subways, at first fitfully in…

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  • One ShotsSigns

    HORSTMANN MIX & CREAM, Astoria Village

    by Kevin Walsh January 9, 2021
    by Kevin Walsh January 9, 2021 3 comments

    Periodically I check on some of my favorite “forgotten” artifacts around town, just to see how they’re doing. Sometimes, I’m disappointed. There was a sign with red and blue plastic…

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    BLAZING STAR BURYING GROUND, Rossville

    by Kevin Walsh January 7, 2021
    by Kevin Walsh January 7, 2021 3 comments

    I haven’t been to Staten Island in quite awhile, and when the Covid Crisis is over I might even do what I did in early 2005 when compiling photos for…

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  • Forgotten Slices

    WATERLINE SQUARE, Upper West Side

    by Kevin Walsh January 6, 2021
    by Kevin Walsh January 6, 2021 8 comments

    By SERGEY KADINSKYForgotten New York correspondent New York has often been derided as a playground for the rich, with their empty glass towers and breathtaking views of the city that…

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  • One Shots

    (FORMERLY) GLEASON’S, Astoria

    by Kevin Walsh January 5, 2021
    by Kevin Walsh January 5, 2021 9 comments

    Why write about a bar on Broadway in Astoria that closed a couple of years ago? It turns out there’s probably some Long Island City history in the name. It’s…

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  • One ShotsSigns

    MAGIC TOUCH COCKTAIL LOUNGE, Carroll Gardens

    by Kevin Walsh January 4, 2021
    by Kevin Walsh January 4, 2021 1 comment

    The Marvelettes once sang, “My baby must be a magician, ’cause he sure got the magic touch.” It’s possible this former Carroll Gardens hotspot at Hoyt and 3rd Streets was…

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  • Subways & Trains

    MOYNIHAN TRAIN HALL, Penn Station

    by Kevin Walsh January 3, 2021
    by Kevin Walsh January 3, 2021 14 comments

    On January 1, 2021 I resolved to do exactly what I had done 4 years earlier in 2017, when I visited the four new Second Avenue Subway stations, walking between…

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