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FORGOTTEN NY IS STILL HERE

April 4, 2020 40 comments

ICAHN STADIUM, Randalls Island

January 14, 2021 1 comment

DANNENHOFFER’S OPALESCENT, Bushwick

January 13, 2021 1 comment
  • 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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  • One Shots

    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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  • CemeteriesOne Shots

    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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  • EatsOne Shots

    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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  • Walks

    HUDSON RIVER PARK

    by Kevin Walsh December 31, 2020
    by Kevin Walsh December 31, 2020 6 comments

    It had been quite a while since I walked Hudson River Park at the southwest end of Manhattan. In fact it had not been since November 2011, when I led…

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  • One Shots

    365 1st AVENUE, Peter Cooper Village

    by Kevin Walsh December 30, 2020
    by Kevin Walsh December 30, 2020 2 comments

    I’ll admit it, I don’t know much about 365 1st Avenue, on the west side of the avenue between East 21st and 22nd Streets facing Peter Cooper Village across the…

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