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    DANNENHOFFER’S OPALESCENT, Bushwick

    by Kevin Walsh January 13, 2021
    by Kevin Walsh January 13, 2021 1 comment

    Now, that’s a mouthful. Back in the late 1990s and early 2000s, when I was canvassing neighborhoods for Forgotten New York, I “reconnected” with a painted ad for Dannenhoffer Opalescent…

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    HORSTMANN MIX & CREAM, Astoria Village

    by Kevin Walsh January 9, 2021
    by Kevin Walsh January 9, 2021 3 comments

    Periodically I check on some of my favorite “forgotten” artifacts around town, just to see how they’re doing. Sometimes, I’m disappointed. There was a sign with red and blue plastic…

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    MAGIC TOUCH COCKTAIL LOUNGE, Carroll Gardens

    by Kevin Walsh January 4, 2021
    by Kevin Walsh January 4, 2021 1 comment

    The Marvelettes once sang, “My baby must be a magician, ’cause he sure got the magic touch.” It’s possible this former Carroll Gardens hotspot at Hoyt and 3rd Streets was…

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    HARPELL CHEMISTS, Whitestone

    by Kevin Walsh December 9, 2020
    by Kevin Walsh December 9, 2020 7 comments

    Though I live in Little Neck and my needs are seen to by Little Neck Drugs on Northern Boulevard, I thought I’d note Harpell Chemists on 150th Street and 14th…

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    SIGNPOST, Seaport

    by Kevin Walsh December 8, 2020
    by Kevin Walsh December 8, 2020 0 comment

    I had overlooked this rusted iron post on Frankfort Street and Park Row. These posts with finned masts…thicker versions of the finned streetlamps that originally lit the FDR Drive, Gowanus…

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    HERALD AND GREELEY

    by Kevin Walsh October 25, 2020
    by Kevin Walsh October 25, 2020 11 comments

    Today’s post is ostensibly an examination of the signage of the IND (6th Avenue Line) portion of the 34th Street station, but I’ve also expanded it to include an examination…

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    A PAIR OF EXCHANGES

    by Kevin Walsh October 5, 2020
    by Kevin Walsh October 5, 2020 15 comments

    There are quite a few ancient signs displaying former letter telephone exchanges around town used with dial rotary phones, which displayed letters as well as numbers; the first two characters…

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    PALOMBA ACADEMY OF MUSIC, Bronxwood

    by Kevin Walsh September 19, 2020
    by Kevin Walsh September 19, 2020 1 comment

    I have no idea how I missed this one, since I’ve walked East Gun Hill Road a couple of times in the last five years… RUN & GUN: WALKING GUN…

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    BLISS GROCERY, Sunnyside

    by Kevin Walsh September 10, 2020
    by Kevin Walsh September 10, 2020 2 comments

    I find it interesting that the name of the Bliss Grocery at Queens Boulevard and 47th Street in Sunnyside was not named for the owner of the grocery, or from…

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    HENRI BILLHARZ PLUMBING, Sunnyside

    by Kevin Walsh September 8, 2020
    by Kevin Walsh September 8, 2020 10 comments

    Sunnyside, a fairly large wedge of western Queens defined by the Sunnyside Yards on the north, 48th Street on the east, and the Queens Midtown Expressway on the south, isn’t…

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    ATLANTIC BEACH BRIDGE

    by Kevin Walsh August 12, 2020
    by Kevin Walsh August 12, 2020 10 comments

    This white enamel directional sign can be found on Seagirt Boulevard just east of Beach 9th Street. It was probably placed there and is incomplete; it likely had an arrow…

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    MIDWOOD TELEPHONE

    by Kevin Walsh August 5, 2020
    by Kevin Walsh August 5, 2020 30 comments

    Once upon a time, telephone customers were assigned alphanumeric telephone numbers. For example, the numbers were such as FOundation 8-3556 (now 368-2556), MOnument 2-2491 (now 662-2491) or NEvins 8-3886 (now 638-3886). The…

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