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    ON GOLDEN POND, BAYSIDE

    by Kevin Walsh October 20, 2022
    by Kevin Walsh October 20, 2022 6 comments

    On the east end of 35th Avenue in Bayside, which oddly becomes a languidly curving route east of Corbett Road, is one of Bayside’s secrets, Golden Pond. An aged Henry Fonda…

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    NEW DORP LIGHT

    by Kevin Walsh August 1, 2022
    by Kevin Walsh August 1, 2022 1 comment

    I’m not sure I have ever photographed the New Dorp Lighthouse in Staten Island; things get fuzzy after 23 years and counting of doing Forgotten New York. The lighthouse is…

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    WILLOWBROOK PARK

    by Kevin Walsh June 15, 2022
    by Kevin Walsh June 15, 2022 3 comments

    MENTION “Willowbrook” to anyone over 50, and the groundbreaking reports aired by reporter Geraldo Rivera in 1972 during his stint at WABC-TV, uncovering the brutal conditions inflicted on patients at…

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  • One ShotsYou'd Never Believe You're in NYC

    SIEDENBURG PARK, Great Kills

    by Kevin Walsh August 13, 2021
    by Kevin Walsh August 13, 2021 2 comments

    As I have mentioned on a (much) earlier Forgotten New York page back in 2001, Staten Island is rife with natural areas and ponds that never made the traditional maps,…

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  • You'd Never Believe You're in NYC

    RICHMONDTOWN 2021 PART 2

    by Kevin Walsh June 6, 2021
    by Kevin Walsh June 6, 2021 1 comment

    Continued from Part 1 Historic Richmondtown, or Richmond Town (both ways seem correct) sits near the geographic center of Staten Island, far from any major parkways or expressways, but at…

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  • You'd Never Believe You're in NYC

    RICHMONDTOWN 2021, PART 1

    by Kevin Walsh May 30, 2021
    by Kevin Walsh May 30, 2021 6 comments

    Historic Richmondtown, or Richmond Town (both ways seem correct) sits near the geographic center of Staten Island, far from any major parkways or expressways, but at the confluence of three…

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  • Forgotten SlicesYou'd Never Believe You're in NYC

    LOCAL WALK IN LITTLE NECK-DOUGLASTON

    by Kevin Walsh May 7, 2020
    by Kevin Walsh May 7, 2020 4 comments

    I mentioned at the outset of my January 2020 walk from Little Neck to Forest Hills that there is something of a barrier between Little Neck, Douglaston and the rest…

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  • One ShotsYou'd Never Believe You're in NYC

    OAKLAND LAKE, Bayside

    by Kevin Walsh May 22, 2019
    by Kevin Walsh May 22, 2019 6 comments

    Now and then, a bit of original New York topography peeks through the concrete, bricks and glass. Oakland Lane, at 46th Avenue and Cloverdale Boulevard in Bayside, is a piece…

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  • You'd Never Believe You're in NYC

    CROOKE’S POINT, Great Kills Park

    by Kevin Walsh December 21, 2018
    by Kevin Walsh December 21, 2018 2 comments

    By SERGEY KADINSKY Forgotten NY correspondent Look at a map of Staten Island and you would see a point of land on the Great Kills waterfront stretching on its southern…

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    ERNEST FLAGG ESTATE, Todt Hill

    by Kevin Walsh March 4, 2018
    by Kevin Walsh March 4, 2018 20 comments

    In January 2018 I had the opportunity to tour the grounds of the former St. Charles Seminary in Todt Hill, Staten Island, which incorporates the Ernest Flagg Estate and its…

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    VIRGINIA POINT, Little Neck

    by Kevin Walsh December 31, 2017
    by Kevin Walsh December 31, 2017 8 comments

    I have lived in Little Neck, Queens since July 1st, 2007, following 14 years in Flushing. I spent 35 years in Brooklyn to begin with, so in 2029 I’ll have…

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    GOVERNORS ISLAND CHRISTMAS 2004

    by Kevin Walsh December 9, 2016
    by Kevin Walsh December 9, 2016 4 comments

    Here’s some solid gold from December 2004, in the era before Governors Island had become the mostly public park it is today (at least during the warm months). In 2004,…

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