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ARDSLEY SIGN, Douglaston

April 13, 2021 0 comment

VAN WYCK HOUSE, Douglaston

April 12, 2021 1 comment

WEST 4TH STREET SIGNS

April 11, 2021 8 comments
  • Alleys

    GAY STREET, Greenwich Village

    by Kevin Walsh April 10, 2021
    by Kevin Walsh April 10, 2021 3 comments

    Between Waverly and Christopher just west of 6th Avenue is a short dogleg called Gay Street, which  contains a number of handsome Federal-style buildings and has a varied lore. The name…

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  • One ShotsRoads

    TRANSCONTINENTAL MYSTERY, Kensington

    by Kevin Walsh April 8, 2021
    by Kevin Walsh April 8, 2021 14 comments

    There is a small cluster of streets south of the Fort Hamilton Parkway border with Green-Wood Cemetery between 36th Street and Dahill Road, where the streets have four women’s names…

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  • One Shots

    SHERRY NETHERLAND CLOCK, 5th Avenue

    by Kevin Walsh April 7, 2021
    by Kevin Walsh April 7, 2021 4 comments

    In the early 20th Century, not everyone necessarily wore a watch. Men carried expensive pocket watches, but until the advent of the wristwatch, time was tracked by clocks of various…

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  • One ShotsSubways & Trains

    PROSPECT PARK STATION

    by Kevin Walsh April 6, 2021
    by Kevin Walsh April 6, 2021 3 comments

    The NYC subway has its share of “station houses” originally built to let people wait for trains, if they didn’t want to do so on the platforms, if they chose.…

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  • One ShotsSigns

    7th AVENUE REMNANT

    by Kevin Walsh April 5, 2021
    by Kevin Walsh April 5, 2021 3 comments

    Back in 2012 I was shuffling down 7th Avenue in Park Slope and I spied this glass leaf lettering in a window of an art gallery at #57 7th Avenue…

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  • Subways & Trains

    METS-WILLETS POINT STATION

    by Kevin Walsh April 4, 2021
    by Kevin Walsh April 4, 2021 16 comments

    2020 marked the first year I hadn’t attended any Mets games at Citifield or Shea Stadium in many years, to my knowledge, but there were just 30 games all year,…

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  • One Shots

    LITTLE NECK INN

    by Kevin Walsh April 2, 2021
    by Kevin Walsh April 2, 2021 2 comments

    The Little Neck Inn and I coexisted in the northeastern Queens neighborhood for about 4 or 5 years (I arrived in 2007) and yet, I never got in. One by…

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  • One Shots

    X MARKS THE SPOT!

    by Kevin Walsh April 1, 2021
    by Kevin Walsh April 1, 2021 8 comments

    There are but two streets in New York City that begin with X. Both are fairly nondescript, but I’m glad they’re there, since X has always gotten short shrift in…

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  • One ShotsSigns

    BRIDGE BUS, 1964

    by Kevin Walsh March 30, 2021
    by Kevin Walsh March 30, 2021 12 comments

    In November 1964 the old man was lined up for one of the first buses to cross the Verrazzano-Narrows Bridge from Brooklyn, and presumably I was with him as I…

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  • Street Scenes

    WEST BROADWAY 2021

    by Kevin Walsh March 28, 2021
    by Kevin Walsh March 28, 2021 5 comments

    One recent Saturday I decided to take several trains from Little Neck to Belleville, NJ, walk around for a bit, and come home. I’ll present the photos from that excursion…

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  • One ShotsStreet Lamps

    TYPE F, Greenwich Village

    by Kevin Walsh March 26, 2021
    by Kevin Walsh March 26, 2021 5 comments

    On this 22nd anniversary of Forgotten New York, I’ll turn to one of the items that got me started on this thing a couple of decades ago, a remaining Type…

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  • One Shots

    WHITE TOWER 2021, Woodside

    by Kevin Walsh March 24, 2021
    by Kevin Walsh March 24, 2021 12 comments

    I was shuffling down Northern Boulevard en route to the LIRR after picking up some lightbulbs at Home Depot, one of the highlights of my week so far, when I…

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