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    THE LOST MUSEUM, Penn Station area

    by Kevin Walsh March 2, 2021
    by Kevin Walsh March 2, 2021 5 comments

    As you may recall, I did a through exploration of the former Farley Post Office and Daniel P. Moynihan Train Hall when it opened back in January. But I’ve recently…

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    BROOKLYN TERMINAL MARKET, Canarsie

    by Kevin Walsh February 27, 2021
    by Kevin Walsh February 27, 2021 6 comments

    Time for another Sunday with Sergey, as I am taking another weekend “off.” Rest and relaxation at last! By SERGEY KADINSKYForgotten New York correspondent On the northern edge of Canarsie…

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    VOELKER-ORTH MUSEUM, Flushing

    by Kevin Walsh February 25, 2021
    by Kevin Walsh February 25, 2021 2 comments

    A Victorian-era residence, the kind that have long been displaced in Flushing by boring, monolithic apartments and blond brick two-family homes (you know the type…concrete driveways and prominent water meters)…

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    HIGBIE HOUSE, Springfield Gardens

    by Kevin Walsh February 16, 2021
    by Kevin Walsh February 16, 2021 5 comments

    In Queens, Springfield Boulevard and Springfield Gardens are a bit misunderstood. The belief persists that the Springfields in these names originated from when Creedmoor State Hospital was a rifle range,…

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    VILLAGE CIGARS, Greenwich Village

    by Kevin Walsh February 10, 2021
    by Kevin Walsh February 10, 2021 6 comments

    The intersection of 7th Avenue South and Christopher Street has existed only since the 1910s, when 7th Avenue was hammered south to connect 7th and Greenwich Avenues with Varick and…

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    CONCRETE PLANT PARK, Bronx River

    by Kevin Walsh February 9, 2021
    by Kevin Walsh February 9, 2021 5 comments

    Concrete Plant Park, built along the Bronx River between 2004 and 2009 for about 10 million dollars (much of which was spent in removing petroleum-tainted soil from the site), runs…

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    HALSEY’S OLD HOME, Astoria

    by Kevin Walsh January 31, 2021
    by Kevin Walsh January 31, 2021 5 comments

    I’ve decided to take this Sunday “off,” so FNY’s Sergey Kadinsky is filling in with an item about a part of Queens west of Astoria Village where I’m rarely found,…

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    WATERLINE SQUARE, Upper West Side

    by Kevin Walsh January 6, 2021
    by Kevin Walsh January 6, 2021 8 comments

    By SERGEY KADINSKYForgotten New York correspondent New York has often been derided as a playground for the rich, with their empty glass towers and breathtaking views of the city that…

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    AMERICAN PLANE SHEDS

    by Kevin Walsh December 28, 2020
    by Kevin Walsh December 28, 2020 4 comments

    By SERGEY KADINSKYForgotten New York correspondent In 2014, the man who later ran to be our 46th president described the conditions of LaGuardia Airport as “third-world.” The insult inspired action…

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    GREAT JONES STREET, NoHo

    by Kevin Walsh December 23, 2020
    by Kevin Walsh December 23, 2020 8 comments

    Great Jones Street takes the place of 3rd Street for two blocks, between Broadway and the Bowery. A bit of research with older maps reveals that it was never part…

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    GATEWAY ESTATES, Brooklyn

    by Kevin Walsh December 1, 2020
    by Kevin Walsh December 1, 2020 7 comments

    By SERGEY KADINSKYForgotten NY correspondent The last frontier of Brooklyn is on the shore of Jamaica Bay, where knob-shaped necks of land separated by inlets did not experience development until…

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    FOUR BOOTHS, Upper West Side

    by Kevin Walsh November 26, 2020
    by Kevin Walsh November 26, 2020 5 comments

    Freestanding, walk-in phone booths used to be ubiquitous all over town, but even before cell phones began taking over in the 1990s, street telephones had been replaced for the most…

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