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    OLD NEW UTRECHT ROAD, Borough Park

    by Kevin Walsh January 3, 2023
    by Kevin Walsh January 3, 2023 3 comments

    THERE’S a curious diagonal road, in two separate pieces, in Borough Park called Old New Utrecht Road. Shown above is the two-block piece between 14th Avenue and 36th Street that…

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    MANHATTAN ON THE MARGINS

    by Kevin Walsh December 10, 2022
    by Kevin Walsh December 10, 2022 13 comments

    As many Forgotten Fans know, I am a voracious map reader. I consult old maps mostly online these days, but I have dozens, perhaps a hundred or two, ancient street…

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    BOSTON ROAD, Bronx Park

    by Kevin Walsh November 11, 2022
    by Kevin Walsh November 11, 2022 1 comment

    YOU’RE looking at what is probably the most well-kept and wide-open section of Boston Road in the Bronx. That’s because regular traffic isn’t permitted onto it, as it runs through…

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    OLEAN STREET, Midwood

    by Kevin Walsh October 10, 2022
    by Kevin Walsh October 10, 2022 11 comments

    OLEAN Street, in the heart of Brooklyn in Midwood,  runs for two diagonal blocks between East 22nd and East 24th Streets between Avenues N and O. In a confusing situation…

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    LIBBY PLACE, Pelham Bay

    by Kevin Walsh September 17, 2022
    by Kevin Walsh September 17, 2022 0 comment

    THERE is a very short street in Pelham Bay, a few blocks west of Pelham Bay Park, called Libby Place. It still retains touches from a previous era, such as…

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    INSIDE BAYSIDE CLOVERDALE

    by Kevin Walsh August 21, 2022
    by Kevin Walsh August 21, 2022 20 comments

    So this week I celebrate my 65th birthday, while having no intention to retire unless my current employer or other potential employers decide they don’t want me working anymore. I…

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    TURNER-HARROW LANE, Kensington

    by Kevin Walsh June 2, 2022
    by Kevin Walsh June 2, 2022 4 comments

    As readers of Forgotten New York know, I enjoy poring over old maps and seeking out ancient roads, then trying to ascertain if there are any remnants of them still…

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    JACKIE ROBINSON PARKWAY, 1932

    by Kevin Walsh May 26, 2022
    by Kevin Walsh May 26, 2022 27 comments

    WHEN traffic czar Robert Moses commissioned the Interborough Parkway in 1930, which connects Pennsylvania and Jamaica Avenues in Brooklyn with the Grand Central Parkway in Kew Gardens, it was along…

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    LAUREL HILL BOULEVARD, Woodside

    by Kevin Walsh April 21, 2022
    by Kevin Walsh April 21, 2022 4 comments

    THERE’S a two-block stretch of Laurel Hill Boulevard between 65th Place and 67th Street independent of the BQE, and the block between 66th and 67th Streets actually has residences and…

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    UNEXPECTED TUNNELS

    by Kevin Walsh January 1, 2022
    by Kevin Walsh January 1, 2022 46 comments

    I have mentioned NYC’s major tunnels only tangentially in Forgotten New York. Over more than 20 years, the site has become about NYC’s built infrastructure (at least the parts I…

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    YELLOWSTONE, QUEENS

    by Kevin Walsh December 19, 2021
    by Kevin Walsh December 19, 2021 9 comments

    I am old. Impossibly old. Older than you imagine. Older than you can imagine. And I have returned to work fulltime, with Marquis Who’s Who, albeit via my home computer.…

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    SPACES ALONG THE CROSS-BRONX

    by Kevin Walsh November 14, 2021
    by Kevin Walsh November 14, 2021 18 comments

    Once again I have a weekend “off” when I turn things over to Sergey Kadinsky, who is ubiquitous. –Editor By SERGEY KADINSKYForgotten New York correspondent THE Bronx has a history…

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