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    LOST STREETS OF HUNTS POINT

    by Kevin Walsh November 2, 2022
    by Kevin Walsh November 2, 2022 2 comments

    TAKE a look at this section of a vintage 1922 Hagstrom Bronx map … I isolated Hunts Point. There is an entire section of streets that has been completely wiped…

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  • MAP ROOMStreet Necrology

    DEPEYSTER AND TIEMANN, Corona

    by Kevin Walsh May 28, 2022
    by Kevin Walsh May 28, 2022 15 comments

    On Facebook, William Padron supplies this map displayed map inside a vintage-1917 IRT Lo-V type trailer subway car #4902 at the New York Transit Museum. Lincoln (52nd), Fisk (69th), Junction Avenue…

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    GREENPOINT MYSTERY

    by Kevin Walsh April 15, 2022
    by Kevin Walsh April 15, 2022 1 comment

    I know little about Dripps, the mid-century New York City and environs mapmaker; and in fact, I know little about its successors, Bromley, Belcher Hyde, Rand McNally, Hagstrom and Geographia.…

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    NEVER BUILT IN BERGEN BEACH

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

    I haven’t made many forays into Bergen Beach, and its rather newer partner, Georgetown, at least not lately. When I lived in Bay Ridge it was fairly easy to reach…

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  • MAP ROOMRoads

    APEX AND AERO, Forest Hills

    by Kevin Walsh April 15, 2021
    by Kevin Walsh April 15, 2021 4 comments

    As many Forgotten NY fans know, I’m attracted to the odd roads that defy the grid, because often they point the way to preexisting roads that existed in the past.…

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    BROOKLYN 1898

    by Kevin Walsh January 25, 2021
    by Kevin Walsh January 25, 2021 7 comments

    I have been looking over a topographical map of sections of Brooklyn and Queens published in 1898 by the United States Geological Survey: topography by the US Coast and Geodetic…

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    QUEENS 1930

    by Kevin Walsh December 2, 2020
    by Kevin Walsh December 2, 2020 12 comments

    As most Forgotten New York readers know, I enjoy maps, especially historic ones that show what the streets of NYC looked like in previous decades. Today, I’ll review an outline…

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    DOUGLASS STREET, Brooklyn

    by Kevin Walsh April 16, 2020
    by Kevin Walsh April 16, 2020 16 comments

    As a boy, I took the B63 bus on 5th Avenue with my mother, father, or both, to some downtown Brooklyn destination. Or, sometimes we just took rides, as I…

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  • MAP ROOMOne Shots

    QUEENS 1936

    by Kevin Walsh March 4, 2020
    by Kevin Walsh March 4, 2020 5 comments

    Here’s an interesting (well, to me) map of Queens prepared by Ohman Maps in 1936. It shows the entire route of the recently-shuttered Whitestone Branch of the Long Island Railroad,…

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  • MAP ROOMOne Shots

    MASPETH 1936

    by Kevin Walsh January 22, 2020
    by Kevin Walsh January 22, 2020 2 comments

    I’ve been fond of showing excepts from a Dripps map of Queens County produced in 1852 (linked from here), showing roads that existed back then and explaining where they are…

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  • MAP ROOMOne Shots

    WESTCHESTER SQUARE 1900

    by Kevin Walsh September 9, 2019
    by Kevin Walsh September 9, 2019 4 comments

    The FNY Tour of September 8, 2019 took us once again to the Westchester Square area, the site of two previous tours. There’s a lot of history concentrated in the…

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  • MAP ROOMOne ShotsStreet Necrology

    HAGSTROM BROOKLYN 1922

    by Kevin Walsh February 20, 2019
    by Kevin Walsh February 20, 2019 1 comment

    Unlike Queens, which was in the midst of overhauling its street nomenclature in 1922, pushing out names and old numbered streets and instituting a borough-wide numbering system, the map of…

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