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    AMERICAN FOOD LABORATORIES, Prospect Heights

    by Kevin Walsh May 12, 2022
    by Kevin Walsh May 12, 2022 4 comments

    PROFESSIONAL football had its AFL from 1961-1970, when the New York Jets won their only Super Bowl when they weren’t even part of the senior-circuit National Football League. But Brooklyn…

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    AN OLD BROMIDE, DOWNTOWN BROOKLYN

    by Kevin Walsh April 20, 2022
    by Kevin Walsh April 20, 2022 2 comments

    FORGOTTEN Fan Michael Towers was out for a stroll in the Downtown Brooklyn-Brooklyn Heights area when he encountered a recent teardown at the corner of Fulton Street Mall and Red…

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    REDISCOVER JAMAICA

    by Kevin Walsh February 8, 2022
    by Kevin Walsh February 8, 2022 8 comments

    JAMAICA is one of Queens’ three oldest neighborhoods, along with Newtown and Flushing, and it’s no surprise that those three neighborhoods have the lion’s share of colonial-era buildings and locations.…

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    SPUMONI GARDENS, DUMBO

    by Kevin Walsh January 12, 2022
    by Kevin Walsh January 12, 2022 8 comments

    I think it was about a year ago when I set off a Facebook war of sorts when I featured a well-known Gravesend institution, L&B Spumoni Gardens on 86th Street.…

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    BEARDSLEE TRANSMISSION, Long Island City

    by Kevin Walsh December 1, 2021
    by Kevin Walsh December 1, 2021 4 comments

    In April 2021 I was scuttling down Jackson Avenue in Long Island City and ducked onto Dutch Kills Street, which runs completely beneath a ramp connecting Thomason Avenue/Queens Boulevard with…

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    GRAHAM GAS RANGES, Williamsburg

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

    So there I was in February 2021, wandering down Boerum Street in Williamsburg. How did I wind up there? Sometimes I just pore over online maps when I feel like…

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    ROBERT BESTIEN, Midtown

    by Kevin Walsh July 26, 2021
    by Kevin Walsh July 26, 2021 1 comment

    NEXT time you are in midtown between 5th and 8th Avenues and 23rd and 40th Streets, be sure and look up at all the ancient brick buildings, built in stolid…

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    P.C. RICHARD, Ozone Park

    by Kevin Walsh June 15, 2021
    by Kevin Walsh June 15, 2021 7 comments

    I’d say there are relatively few New Yorkers who haven’t picked up an TV set or an air conditioner at P.C. Richard, or at least knows a friend who has.…

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    ZOMBIE ADVERTISING

    by Kevin Walsh March 19, 2021
    by Kevin Walsh March 19, 2021 3 comments

    I had been noticing out of date ads at the Little Neck LIRR station for some time…none had been replaced in over a year, as agencies had ceased buying ad…

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    RENTAL AD, Brooklyn Heights

    by Kevin Walsh March 8, 2021
    by Kevin Walsh March 8, 2021 4 comments

    I was bemused by an article in the NY Times by columnist Lindsay Crouse, about how her life was changed by being unable to run outdoors during the covid pandemic.…

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    BORROWED ADS

    by Kevin Walsh January 20, 2021
    by Kevin Walsh January 20, 2021 4 comments

    I was digging around in my Facebook photo files and I came up with a cache of photos that were sent by US Naval academician David Silver back in 2012…

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    ROCCO’S FAMOUS CALAMARI, Bay Ridge

    by Kevin Walsh November 19, 2020
    by Kevin Walsh November 19, 2020 3 comments

    A relatively new “ghost sign” can be found at 6408 Fort Hamilton Parkway, where there is still a painted ad for Rocco’s Famous Calamari. The Italian eatery was founded by…

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