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    PACKARD SHOWROOM 2024, ASTORIA

    by Kevin Walsh May 18, 2025
    by Kevin Walsh May 18, 2025 0 comment

    ONE day after giving a Forgotten NY tour in Sunnyside and Astoria in which I pointed out the former Packard showroom/dealership on Northern Boulevard and 46th Street, some stuff fell…

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    AMERICAN AIRLINES’ STAINED GLASS

    by Kevin Walsh May 17, 2025
    by Kevin Walsh May 17, 2025 4 comments

    A “quickie” this weekend. Hopefully, weekend longforms will return soon, though (thankfully?) I’m thinking the days of my 100-photo epics are done. I don’t travel much: when I have the…

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    MARIA HERNANDEZ PARK

    by Kevin Walsh May 10, 2025
    by Kevin Walsh May 10, 2025 8 comments

    In the heart of Bushwick is a green superblock named in honor of Maria Hernandez, a neighborhood activist who lived across from the park on Starr Street. It is a…

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    GOULD MEMORIAL LIBRARY

    by Kevin Walsh May 3, 2025
    by Kevin Walsh May 3, 2025 14 comments

    I have admired the Bronx Community College campus in University Heights for a long time but avoided photography there after an admonition by a security guard several years ago; fortunately,…

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    HILLSIDE AVENUE 1931

    by Kevin Walsh April 30, 2025
    by Kevin Walsh April 30, 2025 6 comments

    If anything, in 1931 Winchester Boulevard was a bit more developed than Hillside Avenue out in Hollis Hills. Both were dirt roads that got muddy in a hurry after the…

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    SHOOTING SOCIETY, EAST VILLAGE

    by Kevin Walsh April 24, 2025
    by Kevin Walsh April 24, 2025 2 comments

    TUCKED away on St. Mark’s Place in the East Village is a reminder that it used to be NYC’s foremost German neighborhood. The German-American Shooting Society Clubhouse (Deutsch-Amerikanische Schuetzen Gesselschaft),…

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    BRONX’S NEWEST PARK

    by Kevin Walsh April 19, 2025
    by Kevin Walsh April 19, 2025 5 comments

    To the east of Grand Concourse are three parallel avenues honoring Civil War generals Sheridan, Sherman, and Grant. The last one accepted the surrender of the largest Confederate army and…

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    TURTLE BAY INTERIORS

    by Kevin Walsh March 30, 2025
    by Kevin Walsh March 30, 2025 3 comments

    In 2015, Kevin visited the East 54th Street Recreation Center in Turtle Bay, documenting its Beaux Arts architecture. Since then, it was renamed for Constance Baker Motley, continuing its role…

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    A DREW MEDALLION

    by Kevin Walsh March 24, 2025
    by Kevin Walsh March 24, 2025 6 comments

    DURING the administration of Gov. Andrew Cuomo, state-operated bridges and tunnels received giant medallions with the state’s emblem in a display of civic pride for some travelers, or perhaps an…

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    PARKS OF CONDUIT

    by Kevin Walsh March 22, 2025
    by Kevin Walsh March 22, 2025 10 comments

    On the eastern edge of Brooklyn is a lengthy median flanked by service roads for an unbuilt highway. As it cuts through the street grid, Conduit Boulevard has a set…

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    CENTRAL PARK ARSENAL AND ZOO

    by Kevin Walsh March 1, 2025
    by Kevin Walsh March 1, 2025 2 comments

    FACING the corner of Fifth Avenue and E. 64th Street is a former state militia armory that serves as the headquarters of NYC Parks. As a landmarked building, its history…

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    THREE FACES OF DOWNER’S

    by Kevin Walsh February 20, 2025
    by Kevin Walsh February 20, 2025 0 comment

    I got this photo at the dawn of Forgotten NY in the winter of 1998 at Bedford Avenue and North 4th, when Williamsburg was still an industrial/ethnic Eastern European stronghold,…

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