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    ROYAL LACE PAPER WORKS, Greenpoint

    by Kevin Walsh February 27, 2023
    by Kevin Walsh February 27, 2023 6 comments

    My affinity for stolid brick buildings, whether factories or dwellings, has been stated repeatedly in FNY. Greenpoint is one of those Brooklyn neighborhoods that is changing rapidly, with glassy residential…

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    PARAMOUNT FISH, Ridgewood

    by Kevin Walsh February 13, 2023
    by Kevin Walsh February 13, 2023 1 comment

    A panel sidewalk sign for the Paramount Fish Market was revealed in late 2022 at #300 Knickerbocker Avenue between Suydam and Hart Streets when an awning sign for a thrift…

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    SUBWAY SUN

    by Kevin Walsh January 23, 2023
    by Kevin Walsh January 23, 2023 8 comments

    AMELIA Opdyke “Oppy” Jones was a cartoonist who drew a slew of subway posters that gently and humorously called attention to the shortcomings of subway riders in the manners department.…

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    ARROW PARTS, West Farms

    by Kevin Walsh January 21, 2023
    by Kevin Walsh January 21, 2023 2 comments

    As a rule, painted signs that have been around for several years mark businesses that have long since departed, but in today’s case we have two painted signs close to…

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    HOT BAGELS, Bay Ridge

    by Kevin Walsh January 15, 2023
    by Kevin Walsh January 15, 2023 11 comments

    WHEN The Retrologist‘s Rolando Pujol posted this photo of a shop called “Hot Bagels” I recognized it immediately, as I had passed it for many years while slouching down 86th…

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    FRESH MEADOWS SIGNS

    by Kevin Walsh January 9, 2023
    by Kevin Walsh January 9, 2023 15 comments

    THE central Queens neighborhood Fresh Meadows, known best for the eponymously-named extensive residential community centered at 188th Street and the Long Island Expressway that was constructed there between 1946 and 1949…

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    SANDFORD STREET, Bedford-Stuyvesant

    by Kevin Walsh December 19, 2022
    by Kevin Walsh December 19, 2022 4 comments

    I have written before about Beverly Road in Brooklyn, which runs from Kensington all the way east through Flatbush to the border of Brownsville, since the city really can’t decide…

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    RUDY’S, Hell’s Kitchen

    by Kevin Walsh December 8, 2022
    by Kevin Walsh December 8, 2022 12 comments

    I am sure a number of Forgotten Fans will have stories to tell about Rudy’s, a mainstay for decades in Hell’s Kitchen on 9th Avenue north of West 44th Street.…

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    1950s STREET SIGN, Gravesend

    by Kevin Walsh November 16, 2022
    by Kevin Walsh November 16, 2022 4 comments

    THE owners of a house at Van Sicklen Street and Corso Court, a private cul de sac south of Gravesend Neck Road in the heart of Gravesend, have preserved this…

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    PEPSI-COLA, Hunters Point

    by Kevin Walsh November 15, 2022
    by Kevin Walsh November 15, 2022 5 comments

    THIS massive neon Pepsi sign, using Pepsi’s old script logo and old-style bottle, used to be best seen from Dag Hammarskjold Park on East 47th Street and 1st Avenue in Manhattan, though…

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    SUBWAY SIGNS, Grand Central 2019

    by Kevin Walsh October 9, 2022
    by Kevin Walsh October 9, 2022 18 comments

    I haven’t been on the subways and trains as often as I was prior to 2020. My fascination hasn’t ended, but at first I stayed away while the Pandemic was…

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    McHALE’S, Midtown

    by Kevin Walsh September 28, 2022
    by Kevin Walsh September 28, 2022 3 comments

    I’m unsure if McHale’s Bar & Grill, #251 West 51st Street, has anything to do with the classic McHale’s, formerly at the NE corner of 8th Avenue and West 46th…

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