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    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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    HOT BIALYS, Forest Hills

    by Kevin Walsh December 22, 2020
    by Kevin Walsh December 22, 2020 23 comments

    I was furtively wandering down Queens Boulevard on Tuesday, occasionally pausing to wipe off my glasses, as the Illness Mask fogs up glasses as hot breath is redirected onto them.…

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    BOHEMIAN HALL, Astoria

    by Kevin Walsh November 5, 2020
    by Kevin Walsh November 5, 2020 2 comments

    Remember when there could be large gatherings of facemask-free people for purely recreational purposes with no guilt trips? I know, the memory is fading. I remember them, though. I regretted…

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    HOLTERMANN’S BAKERY, Great Kills

    by Kevin Walsh November 3, 2020
    by Kevin Walsh November 3, 2020 6 comments

    NYC has its share of regional bakeries…Brooklynites swore by Ebinger’s up till about 1970 or so, and NYC still has its Entenmann’s; most of NYC’s urban neighborhoods have popular bakeries.…

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    BLIMPIE, Bay Ridge

    by Kevin Walsh April 23, 2020
    by Kevin Walsh April 23, 2020 17 comments

    I’ve mentioned my preference for Blimpie sub sandwiches often in Facebook, but less often in Forgotten NY. Blimpie has largely lost out in the fast food franchise sandwich sweepstakes, but…

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    BROOKS 1890

    by Kevin Walsh April 11, 2019
    by Kevin Walsh April 11, 2019 5 comments

    I happened to be at Book Culture, a new independent bookstore on Jackson Avenue in Hunters Point, in March 2019 to attend a book signing: The Mets’ Art Shamsky and…

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    BERG’N, Prospect Heights

    by Kevin Walsh August 21, 2018
    by Kevin Walsh August 21, 2018 10 comments

      In August 2017 I evaded the dead horse heat of the dog days for a half hour in Berg’n, a food mall converted from a manufacturing warehouse on Bergen Street…

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    SCHAFFER’S TAVERN, Westerleigh

    by Kevin Walsh February 14, 2017
    by Kevin Walsh February 14, 2017 0 comment

    Schaffer’s Tavern is an 83-year old German restaurant at Victory Boulevard and Bradley Avenue on the south end of Westerleigh, a neighborhood full of very interesting architecture from the late…

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    WHITE MANA, Jersey City

    by Kevin Walsh December 6, 2016
    by Kevin Walsh December 6, 2016 2 comments

    Those of you who follow the Kevin J. Walsh facebook page know that I spent much of the year working for a publisher in Hoboken. I spent precious little time…

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    CHIP SHOP, Boerum Hill

    by Kevin Walsh November 2, 2015
    by Kevin Walsh November 2, 2015 4 comments

      Lisa, a friend from Philly, said she wanted to eat at Chip Shop in Brooklyn, so we headed to its sole remaining location at 129 Atlantic Avenue at Henry…

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    PUGLIA, Little Italy

    by Kevin Walsh December 27, 2014
    by Kevin Walsh December 27, 2014 7 comments

      By MICHAEL CASTELROSO Special to Forgotten New York The original Puglia, 189 Hester Street, Little Italy, was opened at 117 Mott Street by Gregorio Garofalo in 1919.  Garofalo, an…

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    ZEKE’S ROAST BEEF, Bay Ridge

    by Kevin Walsh December 24, 2014
    by Kevin Walsh December 24, 2014 3 comments

      I have a 30-year history with Zeke’s Roast Beef, which served my dining needs once per week when I lived on 73rd Street and 7th Avenue in Bay Ridge…

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