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GOODBYE, CUBBERLY, New Dorp

August 18, 2022 1 comment

LIRR PLATFORM LAMPS, Bayside

August 17, 2022 0 comment

TRENTON’S ANCIENT STREET SIGNS

August 16, 2022 6 comments
  • One Shots

    HOUSE OF MANY NAMES, Greenwich Village

    by Kevin Walsh August 15, 2022
    by Kevin Walsh August 15, 2022 1 comment

    THIS handsome, 7-story, large, red-brick building at 320 West 12th Street on the southwest corner at Hudson Street has gone by many names during its century-plus existence. Currently, it’s a luxury condominium…

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  • Neighborhoods

    PRE-GRID BENSONHURST

    by Kevin Walsh August 13, 2022
    by Kevin Walsh August 13, 2022 4 comments

    By SERGEY KADINSKYForgotten NY correspondent EARLIER this month I stopped by the Jewish Community House in Bensonhurst to assist Ukrainian refugees who had landed in New York fleeing the war…

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  • Cemeteries

    ROBERT FULTON, Trinity Cemetery

    by Kevin Walsh August 11, 2022
    by Kevin Walsh August 11, 2022 2 comments

    I recently walked around lower Manhattan and was glad to see Trinity Cemetery fully open again after years of partial closures during the pandemic. However, I was a bit disappointed…

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  • Forgotten Slices

    WHO IS THAT GUY? LL COOL J

    by Kevin Walsh August 10, 2022
    by Kevin Walsh August 10, 2022 3 comments

    At David Dinkins Circle, just down the entrance ramp to Flushing Meadows-Corona Park south of the LIRR station, throughout most of 2022 you’ll see a bronze bust of R&B and…

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  • One Shots

    DAVID’S GARDEN, Flushing Meadows

    by Kevin Walsh August 9, 2022
    by Kevin Walsh August 9, 2022 4 comments

    In the shadow of the imposing Philip Johnson New York State Pavilion Towers sits a quiet verdant oasis called David’s Garden, a tribute to longtime Queens Tribune editor David Oats, who…

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  • Walks

    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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  • One Shots

    STRANGE PERSISTENCE: VAN ALST

    by Kevin Walsh August 4, 2022
    by Kevin Walsh August 4, 2022 5 comments

    I’LL say it right off the bat this time: long ago, 21st Street, a main artery running from Ditmars through Long Island City to Hunters Point, was called Van Alst…

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  • One Shots

    JACK KEMP, Terrace Gardens

    by Kevin Walsh August 3, 2022
    by Kevin Walsh August 3, 2022 3 comments

    WHILE taking a daily walk around Terrace Gardens, a development just over the Nassau line near my own Westmoreland Gardens, I found the remains of a Dole-Kemp campaign sticker. Longtime…

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  • One Shots

    CROOKED HOUSE, Jackson Heights

    by Kevin Walsh August 2, 2022
    by Kevin Walsh August 2, 2022 9 comments

    EVERY so often when I’m in Jackson Heights, I make my way over to 31st Avenue and 81st Street to see how the Crooked House of Jackson Heights is doing.…

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

    NEW DORP LIGHT

    by Kevin Walsh August 1, 2022
    by Kevin Walsh August 1, 2022 1 comment

    I’m not sure I have ever photographed the New Dorp Lighthouse in Staten Island; things get fuzzy after 23 years and counting of doing Forgotten New York. The lighthouse is…

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  • Walks

    WALKING KENMARE

    by Kevin Walsh July 31, 2022
    by Kevin Walsh July 31, 2022 18 comments

    JUST when it started to get hot in June, I wrapped up my spring 2022 Lower East Side meanderings with a walk east on Kenmare and Delancey Streets. Kenmare Street…

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  • Signs

    MOUNT EVEREST WAY, Jackson Heights

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

    MOUNT Everest is the tallest mountain in the world at just over 29000 feet (about 8849 meters) and sits on the border of China and Nepal, the mountain George Mallory…

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