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    OLD WHITE PLAINS ROAD, Williamsbridge

    by Kevin Walsh November 10, 2022
    by Kevin Walsh November 10, 2022 3 comments

    WHILE poking around in Google Street View, as I do for fun (somebody has to do it) I chanced upon the remnants of colonial-era roads at the intersection of Barnes…

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    LOST STREETS OF HUNTS POINT

    by Kevin Walsh November 2, 2022
    by Kevin Walsh November 2, 2022 2 comments

    TAKE a look at this section of a vintage 1922 Hagstrom Bronx map … I isolated Hunts Point. There is an entire section of streets that has been completely wiped…

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    LOST STREETS OF THE EAST

    by Kevin Walsh June 12, 2022
    by Kevin Walsh June 12, 2022 9 comments

    THERE are some spots in Manhattan in which entire blocks of streets have been lost in the name of urban renewal or urban planning. One such area was a warren…

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  • MAP ROOMStreet Necrology

    DEPEYSTER AND TIEMANN, Corona

    by Kevin Walsh May 28, 2022
    by Kevin Walsh May 28, 2022 15 comments

    On Facebook, William Padron supplies this map displayed map inside a vintage-1917 IRT Lo-V type trailer subway car #4902 at the New York Transit Museum. Lincoln (52nd), Fisk (69th), Junction Avenue…

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    BIRMINGHAM STREET

    by Kevin Walsh May 11, 2022
    by Kevin Walsh May 11, 2022 2 comments

    TUCKED away beside the Manhattan Bridge, predating it by a century or more, was a one-lane alley called Birmingham Street, running between Henry and Madison Street east of Market Street.…

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    CONEY ISLAND GHOSTS

    by Kevin Walsh January 15, 2020
    by Kevin Walsh January 15, 2020 14 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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  • Street Necrology

    STRANGE STREET NAMES OF THE PAST

    by Kevin Walsh November 5, 2019
    by Kevin Walsh November 5, 2019 13 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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  • MAP ROOMOne ShotsStreet Necrology

    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 1 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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