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    TRACK INDICATOR, Moynihan Train Hall

    by Kevin Walsh March 3, 2021
    by Kevin Walsh March 3, 2021 0 comment

    One of the welcomer features of the new Moynihan Train Hall, which opened January 1, 2021 in the former James Farley US Post Office distribution center, is the use of…

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    ROCKAWAY TRACKS, Edgemere

    by Kevin Walsh February 26, 2021
    by Kevin Walsh February 26, 2021 12 comments

    My mission was simple in October 2018—I was going to walk the entire length of the Rockaway peninsula, from Riis Park all the way east to Far Rockaway. I nearly…

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  • One ShotsStreet Lamps

    CLEARVIEW EXPRESSWAY LAMP, Bayside

    by Kevin Walsh February 23, 2021
    by Kevin Walsh February 23, 2021 1 comment

    These handsome lamps were standard issue in the 1950s for very specific purposes: they lit pedestrian walkways on expressways built during that decade. Poles very much like it can be…

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    MARBLETTE CORPORATION, Long Island City

    by Kevin Walsh February 19, 2021
    by Kevin Walsh February 19, 2021 1 comment

    The Astoria Elevated runs from Queensboro Plaza north to Ditmars Boulevard on 31st Street; it has been here since 1917, and was originally run in an unusual joint operation by…

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    YOUR DAILY PODPHONE, Brooklyn Heights

    by Kevin Walsh February 19, 2021
    by Kevin Walsh February 19, 2021 5 comments

    Over on my Facebook page (you should try it — if you’re a Facebook subscriber, “friend me” — it’s 100% fun with no nastiness, politics and personal attacks) I occasionally…

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    FLATBUSH TOWN HALL

    by Kevin Walsh February 18, 2021
    by Kevin Walsh February 18, 2021 2 comments

    Central Flatbush, clustered around Flatbush and Church Avenues, boasts a number of historic buildings in a relatively small area, similar to other originally Dutch Colonial NYC towns like Flushing and…

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    JACOB RIIS, Riis Park

    by Kevin Walsh February 15, 2021
    by Kevin Walsh February 15, 2021 3 comments

    Danish-born crusading journalist and photographer Jacob Riis (1849-1914) made his home in Richmond Hill, Queens, beginning in 1886. In 1887, Riis photographed the squalid, inhumane conditions prevalent in New York City’s…

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    YORKVILLE CLOCK

    by Kevin Walsh February 12, 2021
    by Kevin Walsh February 12, 2021 6 comments

    The Yorkville Clock at 1501 3rd Avenue and East 85th Street has been here since 1898 — lasting an entire century and parts of two others. Like many other sidewalk clocks it originally…

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    PULASKI BRIDGE, Newtown Creek

    by Kevin Walsh February 10, 2021
    by Kevin Walsh February 10, 2021 3 comments

    Andrzej Tadeusz Bonawentura Kościuszko isn’t the only Polish Revolutionary-era patriot honored with a bridge across Newtown Creek. Manhattan Avenue formerly connected with Vernon Avenue (now Boulevard) in Long Island City via a…

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    CROWN JEWEL OF KREISCHERVILLE

    by Kevin Walsh February 5, 2021
    by Kevin Walsh February 5, 2021 1 comment

    Staten Island is calling. 2020 was the first year I didn’t set foot on the island of myth since Forgotten New York began “principal photography” in 1998. In fact I…

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    WOMRATH’S, Forest Hills

    by Kevin Walsh February 4, 2021
    by Kevin Walsh February 4, 2021 9 comments

    From the NYC Municipal Archives, here’s a look at 71-66 Austin Street in Forest Hills which then housed a Womrath’s library. Since I remember Womrath’s in Bay Ridge as a…

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  • One ShotsSigns

    10th AND BROADWAY, Williamsburg

    by Kevin Walsh February 3, 2021
    by Kevin Walsh February 3, 2021 4 comments

    10th and Broadway in Williamsburg? You might think these signs would be found in the Union Square area, where East 10th and Broadway do intersect (at Grace Church, one of…

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