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    65th PRECINCT, EAST NEW YORK

    by Kevin Walsh March 26, 2025
    by Kevin Walsh March 26, 2025 7 comments

    ANOTHER one will soon bite the dust. While other venerable police precincts around town have been shored up and restored recently, the 65th (and later the 73rd) Precinct building, East…

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    FORGOTTEN MEMORABILIA

    by Kevin Walsh March 19, 2025
    by Kevin Walsh March 19, 2025 11 comments

    BEING a world-famous webmaster (sort of) means that, on occasion, people send you things, completely unbidden. In September 2020 I got a big box of stuff sent by a woman…

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    ST. SEBASTIAN, WOODSIDE

    by Kevin Walsh March 18, 2025
    by Kevin Walsh March 18, 2025 4 comments

    St. Sebastian’s Church at Roosevelt Avenue and 58th Street across the street from Donovan’s (some parishioners cross 58th directly after Mass to bend the bar) was founded in 1894, with…

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    CORNER DELI, WOODSIDE

    by Kevin Walsh March 14, 2025
    by Kevin Walsh March 14, 2025 9 comments

    I have passed The Corner Deli in Woodside, 69th Street 65th Place at Laurel Hill Boulevard facing the Brooklyn-Queens expressway and opposite the James Novello Winfield War Memorial, quite a…

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    271st STREET, GLEN OAKS

    by Kevin Walsh March 12, 2025
    by Kevin Walsh March 12, 2025 6 comments

    TODAY, I offer a shot of an ordinary residential Queens street just south of 76th Avenue in the shadow of the Long Island Jewish Medical Center, where I have visited…

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    BAYLIS HOUSE, FLORAL PARK

    by Kevin Walsh March 11, 2025
    by Kevin Walsh March 11, 2025 0 comment

    In early 2020, while Covid-19 was raging, I had some idle months. One day in July I took the Q36 bus down Little Neck Parkway to Floral Park, just south…

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    BUZZ-A-RAMA 1965-2022

    by Kevin Walsh March 10, 2025
    by Kevin Walsh March 10, 2025 20 comments

    JUST knowing something of interest is there can be enough, even if you never have the opportunity to see it. A lengthy storefront at Church Avenue and Dahill Road was…

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    STANTON STREET SHUL

    by Kevin Walsh March 6, 2025
    by Kevin Walsh March 6, 2025 3 comments

    In the winter of 2024-2025 I covered a great deal of the Lower East Side and East Village, on Avenues A through D. Still plagued by age-related back issues, I…

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    DIVISION STREET POWERHOUSE

    by Kevin Walsh March 5, 2025
    by Kevin Walsh March 5, 2025 5 comments

    NEW YORK CITY once had four main trunk elevated lines: the 2nd, 3rd, 6th and 9th Avenue Els. Of these, the Third Avenue gets the most of meager press attention…

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    WHITESTONE LANES

    by Kevin Walsh March 4, 2025
    by Kevin Walsh March 4, 2025 9 comments

    FORGIVE the relatively poor angle on this shot of Whitestone Lanes, at Whitestone Expressway and Linden Place, technically in Flushing. (It actually looks better by night than by day.) I…

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    DIAMOND’S, CONEY ISLAND

    by Kevin Walsh February 27, 2025
    by Kevin Walsh February 27, 2025 4 comments

    In 1940, Diamond’s Dry Goods held down 2516 Mermaid Avenue, west of West 25th Street in Coney Island. The name was displayed in a diamond-shaped motif with a window display…

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    BIG NOSE KATE’S, ROSSVILLE

    by Kevin Walsh February 23, 2025
    by Kevin Walsh February 23, 2025 1 comment

    SADLY I have never visited Big Nose Kate’s, a saloon way out in Rossville, at 2484 Arthur Kill Road, tucked near the huge Old Bermuda catering hall next to the…

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