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    TROLLEY POLES, BRONX

    by Kevin Walsh December 16, 2024
    by Kevin Walsh December 16, 2024 4 comments

    WELL, it’s only taken 25 years, but I finally have a pair of remaining iron trolley poles to talk about in the Bronx. During my Bronx presentation for the Bronx…

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    TROLLEY TRACK, RIDGEWOOD

    by Kevin Walsh November 14, 2024
    by Kevin Walsh November 14, 2024 5 comments

    REMNANTS of NYC’s streetcar lines, which existed in all five boroughs until the late 194os and early 1950s, are getting fewer and “far betweener” since I began photography for Forgotten…

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    TROLLEY POLE, SUNSET PARK

    by Kevin Walsh April 9, 2024
    by Kevin Walsh April 9, 2024 3 comments

    THERE are a number of iron poles that supported trolley wires scattered around NYC, especially in Brooklyn, where I can locate about a dozen or so. Here is one found…

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    JAMISON’S, BROWNSVILLE

    by Kevin Walsh March 14, 2024
    by Kevin Walsh March 14, 2024 10 comments

    At the triangle formed by East New York Avenue and Prospect Place where they meet Rockaway Avenue, you will find a tall building with a bricked-up picture window, as well…

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    TROLLEY REMNANT, JUNCTION BOULEVARD

    by Kevin Walsh March 4, 2024
    by Kevin Walsh March 4, 2024 21 comments

    JUNCTION Boulevard’s name is somewhat mysterious. Literally, from Latin, “junction” means “joining” or where things come together. But what originally came together here in western Queens? My guess is either…

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    DYKER HEIGHTS MYSTERY

    by Kevin Walsh December 23, 2023
    by Kevin Walsh December 23, 2023 8 comments

    As I have mentioned previously in Forgotten NY, when I lived in Brooklyn , I used to bicycle all over Brooklyn and several times extended into Queens and as far…

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    ESSEX STREET TROLLEY TERMINAL

    by Kevin Walsh October 4, 2023
    by Kevin Walsh October 4, 2023 7 comments

    A long-abandoned trolley terminal has been hiding in plain sight at the eastbound platform of the Essex Street Station serving J and M trains on the Nassau Street BMT plying…

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    THE LOST CANARSIE SHUTTLE

    by Kevin Walsh July 8, 2023
    by Kevin Walsh July 8, 2023 11 comments

    THE BMT Canarsie Line (popularly, the L train), like its cousin mostly completed the same year, the Flushing Line (#7 train) was built out mostly in 1928. However, some sections…

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    FRESH MEADOWS 1937

    by Kevin Walsh December 31, 2022
    by Kevin Walsh December 31, 2022 11 comments

    CLOSING out 2022 (how long can FNY go on?) In the late 19th and early 20th Century, a trolley line connected Flushing and Jamaica, running originally through the farms and…

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    CHURCH AVENUE TROLLEY

    by Kevin Walsh October 16, 2022
    by Kevin Walsh October 16, 2022 14 comments

    WHILE riding on the B35 bus on Church Avenue in Kensington in the 1960s (my parents and I would take bus rides on all the local lines when I was…

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    WILD IN THE COUNTRY, Fresh Meadows

    by Kevin Walsh August 6, 2020
    by Kevin Walsh August 6, 2020 14 comments

    Where can this Queens scene be, which looks to be way out in the countryside with a few scattered houses near the horizon and a single railroad track in the…

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    TROLLEY POLE, Cobble Hill

    by Kevin Walsh September 25, 2018
    by Kevin Walsh September 25, 2018 1 comment

    Here’s a remaining trolley pole at Atlantic Avenue and a Brooklyn-Queens Expressway exit, just west of Hicks Street. It once had a partner across the street and electric cable was…

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