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    THE NAMES OF THE NEIGHBORHOODS OF STATEN ISLAND

    by Kevin Walsh March 20, 2022
    by Kevin Walsh March 20, 2022 55 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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    DRY CLEANERS, East Village

    by Kevin Walsh February 14, 2022
    by Kevin Walsh February 14, 2022 6 comments

    THE Forgotten NY camera (a Panasonic Lumix) was focused like a laser beam on the SE corner of Avenue A and East 13th Street a few Saturdays ago when I…

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    12th DAY

    by Kevin Walsh February 13, 2022
    by Kevin Walsh February 13, 2022 2 comments

    The following is an expanded version of my SpliceToday piece from February 9th, 2022 with additional text and photos. WAY back in early 2009, when I and the world were…

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    VENTURE HOUSE, Jamaica

    by Kevin Walsh February 10, 2022
    by Kevin Walsh February 10, 2022 5 comments

    I had made my way to Jamaica from Flushing in abominable 28-degree weather (at least there were no snowmen) and about a half hour before packing it in for the…

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    GRAND CENTRAL LAUNDROMAT, Hillcrest

    by Kevin Walsh February 9, 2022
    by Kevin Walsh February 9, 2022 16 comments

    THE Grand Central Laundromat can be found on Parsons Boulevard, a major north-south road in the middle of Queens, and seemingly has nothing to do with Grand Central Terminal (I…

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    RED HOOK 2021

    by Kevin Walsh January 9, 2022
    by Kevin Walsh January 9, 2022 14 comments

    ONE lit off for Red Hook on November 27, 2021 (new thing: I have decided to put an exact date on the photography in Forgotten NY posts, since this is…

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    RETURN TO EAST WILLIAMSBURG

    by Kevin Walsh October 10, 2021
    by Kevin Walsh October 10, 2021 6 comments

    EARLY in October 2021 I decided to walk around a tight little enclave of streets located between Bushwick and Varick Avenues on the east and west and Johnson and Flushing…

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    COURT STREET, Cobble Hill-Carroll Gardens

    by Kevin Walsh September 26, 2021
    by Kevin Walsh September 26, 2021 18 comments

    DURING one of the five humidity-free days in July 2021, I lit off down Court Street, a walk I have done before both for Forgotten NY and long before that.…

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    INSPIRATION POINT, Fort Washington

    by Kevin Walsh September 23, 2021
    by Kevin Walsh September 23, 2021 3 comments

    WHEN you are walking (bicycling perhaps) on the Hudson River Greenway in the median between north and southbound lanes of the Henry Hudson Parkway, opposite Fort Tryon Park. you come…

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