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    FLETCHER’S CASTORIA, NEW BRIGHTON

    by Kevin Walsh March 23, 2023
    by Kevin Walsh March 23, 2023 5 comments

    FLETCHER’S Castoria ads have been a staple in the Forgotten New York ancient painted ads category from the very beginning, back in 1999. They can be seen frequently in photographs…

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    AUTOMAT, Midtown

    by Kevin Walsh January 24, 2023
    by Kevin Walsh January 24, 2023 13 comments

    I have pointed out this particular painted ad for the long-lost Automat before, but it’s been awhile. While walking down 7th Avenue all these years ago, I happened to look up…

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    SCHORSCH PAPER BAGS, Mott Haven

    by Kevin Walsh January 11, 2023
    by Kevin Walsh January 11, 2023 8 comments

    IT’S been awhile, maybe a couple of years, since I’ve been in Mott Haven. I’ll admit, since the pandemic began and crime increased in 2020, discretion has been the better…

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    RUSSEK’S, Fulton Mall

    by Kevin Walsh December 21, 2022
    by Kevin Walsh December 21, 2022 4 comments

    THIS one stumped me for quite a long time. This painted ad on the north side of Fulton, across from Macy’s, stumped me for years, but Of New York has scooped me…

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    LAPPIN TEA, Tribeca

    by Kevin Walsh November 26, 2022
    by Kevin Walsh November 26, 2022 1 comment

    TRIBECA, at one time, was New York’s primary center for foodstuffs imports such as butter, cheese and eggs…and tea, which was unloaded from ships docked in the Hudson River along…

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    PROSPECT HOSPITAL AD, Hunts Point

    by Kevin Walsh October 31, 2022
    by Kevin Walsh October 31, 2022 5 comments

    HOW many painted ads on buildings do you see around town for hospitals? There was one painted a long time ago at #710 Hunts Point Avenue at Spofford Avenue in…

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    CASTLE BATHS, South Jamaica

    by Kevin Walsh September 4, 2022
    by Kevin Walsh September 4, 2022 2 comments

    By SERGEY KADINSKYForgotten New York correspondent WE don’t usually associate southeastern Queens with mural ads as this is largely a corner of the borough covered by single-family tract houses. But…

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    TITANIC THE MUSICAL

    by Kevin Walsh July 12, 2022
    by Kevin Walsh July 12, 2022 5 comments

    FORGOTTEN NY fan Kyle Supley found this quite faded ad for Titanic the Musical in a Park Fast lot at #305 West 44th, west of 8th Avenue. Of course I…

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    SHERITA OF PROSPECT HEIGHTS

    by Kevin Walsh May 19, 2022
    by Kevin Walsh May 19, 2022 4 comments

    ATLANTIC AVENUE is one of the lengthiest streets in New York City, divided about equally between Brooklyn and Queens. It runs from the waterfront in Brooklyn Heights all the way…

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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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