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    102 GREENWICH STREET, DOWNTOWN

    by Kevin Walsh June 1, 2023
    by Kevin Walsh June 1, 2023 7 comments

    WHILE wandering around in lower Manhattan in 2018, I spotted a rather forbidding-looking building at #102-104 Greenwich, just north of Rector (and one of my favorite lunch joints, George’s Restaurant).…

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    RIP ST. MICHAEL AND ST. EDWARD CHURCH, FORT GREENE

    by Kevin Walsh May 30, 2023
    by Kevin Walsh May 30, 2023 10 comments

    In the mid-20th Century, the street map of Fort Greene was drastically changed when multiple housing projects such as the Raymond Ingersoll, University Towers and Walt Whitman Houses were all…

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    PRINTER’S PARK, LONGWOOD

    by Kevin Walsh April 30, 2023
    by Kevin Walsh April 30, 2023 9 comments

    By SERGEY KADINSKYForgotten NY correspondent HOE Avenue does not have the most attractive name for a road in the South Bronx. Perhaps a farming tool or a woman of ill…

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    BELT PARKWAY BRIDGES

    by Kevin Walsh April 5, 2023
    by Kevin Walsh April 5, 2023 24 comments

    WORD comes that the two distinctive Belt Parkway pedestrian bridges that go over the parkway to the bike/pedestrian path along the Narrows are under demolition and will be replaced. I…

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    MOUNT ST. VINCENT, RIVERDALE

    by Kevin Walsh April 2, 2023
    by Kevin Walsh April 2, 2023 12 comments

    By SERGEY KADINSKYForgotten NY correspondent THE northwestern tip of New York City offers majestic views of the Hudson River and the Palisades. The Sisters of Charity have their convent here,…

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    MILLER FIELD, NEW DORP

    by Kevin Walsh March 26, 2023
    by Kevin Walsh March 26, 2023 6 comments

    By SERGEY KADINSKYForgotten New York correspondent FROM the Verrazano Bridge area heading south, Father Capodanno Boulevard is a pedal-to-the-metal shorefront road that was intended to serve as a highway. Among…

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    FINIAL DESTINATION, CITY ISLAND

    by Kevin Walsh March 19, 2023
    by Kevin Walsh March 19, 2023 10 comments

    BY SERGEY KADINSKYForgotten NY correspondent SWING drawbridges used to be very common across this city, appearing not only on the Harlem River, but also at Newtown Creek, Flushing Creek, and…

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    OUR LADY OF LORETO

    by Kevin Walsh March 12, 2023
    by Kevin Walsh March 12, 2023 7 comments

    By SERGEY KADINSKYForgotten NY correspondent WHEN driving from Queens to the heart of Brooklyn, the Jackie Robinson Parkway abruptly ends at the intersection of Jamaica Avenue, Pennsylvania Avenue, and Bushwick…

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    St. JOSEPH SCHOOL, FERRY POINT

    by Kevin Walsh February 19, 2023
    by Kevin Walsh February 19, 2023 7 comments

    BY SERGEY KADINSKYForgotten NY correspondent OVERSHADOWED by the tangle of ramps on the Bronx side of the Whitestone Bridge is a historic Catholic school bypassed by millions of drivers with…

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    SOUNDVIEW MURAL

    by Kevin Walsh February 18, 2023
    by Kevin Walsh February 18, 2023 0 comment

    By SERGEY KADINSKYForgotten NY correspondent I recently had the pleasure of meeting Kevin C. Fitzpatrick, author of the book 111 Places in the Bronx That You Must Not Miss, who…

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    ARTIFACTS OF WEST MASPETH

    by Kevin Walsh February 11, 2023
    by Kevin Walsh February 11, 2023 3 comments

    I was thinking of West Maspeth, a part of town few but its inhabitants give a second thought, specifically the region just east of the Long Island Rail Road Montauk…

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    ARCHITECTURAL GEMS

    by Kevin Walsh February 5, 2023
    by Kevin Walsh February 5, 2023 14 comments

    BY SERGEY KADINSKYForgotten NY correspondent THE single-block Diamond District of 47th Street between Fifth and Sixth Avenues seems to change slowly, in comparison to neighboring blocks. Many of its buildings…

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