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    MILLER FIELD, NEW DORP

    by Kevin Walsh March 26, 2023
    by Kevin Walsh March 26, 2023 3 comments

    By SERGEY KADINSKYForgotten New York correspondent FROM the Verrazano Bridge area heading south, Father Capodanno Boulevard is a pedal-to-the-metal shorefront road that was intended to serve as a highway. Among…

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    ELEGY: R-46 SUBWAY CAR

    by Kevin Walsh March 24, 2023
    by Kevin Walsh March 24, 2023 10 comments

    NEW R-211 subway cars have arrived on the 8th Avenue line, currently serving the A express line. Since I moved to Queens and take the Long Island Rail Road to…

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    NEW LIRR CONCOURSE, PENNSYLVANIA STATION

    by Kevin Walsh February 26, 2023
    by Kevin Walsh February 26, 2023 23 comments

    THE first Pennsylvania Station, which allowed passenger trains to arrive in NYC from across the Hudson and East Rivers, opened to the public in 1910. Prior to that, passengers needed…

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    SPEEDEE, Coney Island

    by Kevin Walsh February 7, 2023
    by Kevin Walsh February 7, 2023 11 comments

    A relatively rare midday post, or posts, today as I injured my back during the usual morning routine and decided to take a day off from working at home for…

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    HOLLAND STATION, Rockaway

    by Kevin Walsh September 13, 2022
    by Kevin Walsh September 13, 2022 4 comments

    BEACH 90th Street is a station on the A train in the Rockaways, the first on the line after it crosses Jamaica Bay en route to Rockaway Park at Beach…

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    PRE-GRID BENSONHURST

    by Kevin Walsh August 13, 2022
    by Kevin Walsh August 13, 2022 6 comments

    By SERGEY KADINSKYForgotten NY correspondent EARLIER this month I stopped by the Jewish Community House in Bensonhurst to assist Ukrainian refugees who had landed in New York fleeing the war…

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    ASTORIA VILLAGE 2022

    by Kevin Walsh July 17, 2022
    by Kevin Walsh July 17, 2022 8 comments

    PERIODICALLY I visit Astoria Village to see how it is getting along. I first saw the neighborhood in 1998 at the dawn of the Forgotten New York Era, when there…

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    CAROUSEL FOR ALL CHILDREN, Willowbrook Park

    by Kevin Walsh June 16, 2022
    by Kevin Walsh June 16, 2022 3 comments

    I fancy myself something of a connoisseur of carousels. Whenever I know one is around wherever I happen to be, I seek it out. I admire the calliope music (fie…

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    THE NAMES OF THE NEIGHBORHOODS OF STATEN ISLAND

    by Kevin Walsh March 20, 2022
    by Kevin Walsh March 20, 2022 54 comments

    LATELY I have been revisiting my Names of the Neighborhoods series over at SpliceToday but I hadn’t tackled Staten Island and Manhattan yet. Staten Island has a number of curious…

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    NEWTOWN HALL

    by Kevin Walsh February 20, 2022
    by Kevin Walsh February 20, 2022 7 comments

    It’s that time of the month again…when I want a weekend off, that is. I’m handing it off to Sergey again for a visit to Elmhurst, or rather, its predecessor……

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    CAR CHARGERS, Brooklyn Heights

    by Kevin Walsh February 16, 2022
    by Kevin Walsh February 16, 2022 16 comments

    A new addition to the streetside infrastructure the last couple of years has been charging stations for electric-powered vehicles. If you watched the Super Bowl this year, you saw electric…

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    FATHER MANCINI CORNER, East Village

    by Kevin Walsh February 15, 2022
    by Kevin Walsh February 15, 2022 7 comments

    My instincts are usually good. On a recent march down East 12th Street I snapped a photo of Father Mancini Corner at Avenue A. It turns out that this sign…

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