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    CONEY ISLAND GHOSTS

    by Kevin Walsh January 15, 2020
    by Kevin Walsh January 15, 2020 9 comments

    Probably no other Brooklyn neighborhood has as many ghosts as Coney Island, from Luna Park to Steeplechase to George Tilyou to the Elephant Hotel. For over sixty years, Surf Avenue’s…

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    STRANGE STREET NAMES OF THE PAST

    by Kevin Walsh November 5, 2019
    by Kevin Walsh November 5, 2019 12 comments

    While poring through old maps and street directories ( I do it so you don’t have to) I occasionally see some great old street names that I wish had been…

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    HAGSTROM BROOKLYN 1922

    by Kevin Walsh February 20, 2019
    by Kevin Walsh February 20, 2019 1 comment

    Unlike Queens, which was in the midst of overhauling its street nomenclature in 1922, pushing out names and old numbered streets and instituting a borough-wide numbering system, the map of…

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  • One ShotsSignsStreet NecrologySubways & Trains

    LOST SUBWAY STATION NAMES OF ASTORIA

    by Kevin Walsh February 7, 2019
    by Kevin Walsh February 7, 2019 1 comment

    As I have related in FNY over the past year (2018), four elevated stations of the Astoria Line were closed for several months and then reopened with a radical new…

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    SEEING LOST NY STREETS

    by Kevin Walsh January 2, 2019
    by Kevin Walsh January 2, 2019 6 comments

    Years ago, soon after beginning Forgotten NY, I compiled a far-from-comprehensive list of lost streets in lower Manhattan. I had a lot of fun doing it, though I’m not as…

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  • One ShotsStreet Necrology

    ROOSEVELT STREET, Seaport

    by Kevin Walsh December 24, 2018
    by Kevin Walsh December 24, 2018 0 comment

    While wandering around in the Seaport area under the spaghetti cluster of elevated roads that connect the Brooklyn Bridge to the Franklin D. Roosevelt Drive, I spotted this unusual road…

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  • One ShotsStreet NecrologySubways & Trains

    LOWERY’S, Sunnyside

    by Kevin Walsh May 28, 2018
    by Kevin Walsh May 28, 2018 2 comments

    The casual visitor to Sunnyside might assume that Lowery’s Wine Factory on Queens Boulevard between 40th and 41st Street was named for the original owner. Never assume anything in Queens;…

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    RUTGERS BATHHOUSE, Lower East Side

    by Kevin Walsh March 29, 2018
    by Kevin Walsh March 29, 2018 7 comments

    By SERGEY KADINSKY Forgotten NY correspondent Having documented the abandoned Dr. Simon Baruch Public Bath as part of the page on East River Park, I went a mile to the…

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  • One ShotsStreet Necrology

    BATAVIA STREET, Lower East Side

    by Kevin Walsh January 22, 2018
    by Kevin Walsh January 22, 2018 5 comments

    From the NYC Municipal Archives comes this image of a Depression-era ragpicker making his way along Batavia Street at New Chambers Street just north of the Brooklyn Bridge. If that…

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  • One ShotsStreet Necrology

    FRIBERG IRON FOUNDRY, Greenpoint

    by Kevin Walsh February 4, 2017
    by Kevin Walsh February 4, 2017 4 comments

    Some of the buildings on Franklin Street in Greenpoint bear the stamp of the old C.A. Friberg Iron Foundry, #2 to 8 Driggs Street. There is no Driggs Street at…

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  • One ShotsStreet Necrology

    MACOMB STREET, Park Slope

    by Kevin Walsh December 7, 2016
    by Kevin Walsh December 7, 2016 0 comment

    Macomb Street, running between 4th Avenue and Prospect Park West, was probably named for Alexander Macomb Sr. (1748-1831), a prosperous Revolution-era merchant born in Belfast, Ireland. Though he initially had Tory sympathies he…

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  • One ShotsStreet Necrology

    SECOND STREET, Williamsburg

    by Kevin Walsh November 30, 2016
    by Kevin Walsh November 30, 2016 2 comments

    Various alarms and surveillance devices cover a pair of chiseled street signs on a very old brick building at Wythe Avenue and North 8th Street in the Willie. How do…

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