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CANAL STREET NOW AND THEN

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MANHATTAN’S LOST MANHATTAN STREETS

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CANAL STREET NOW AND THEN

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CANAL STREET NOW AND THEN

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CANAL STREET NOW AND THEN

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CANAL STREET NOW AND THEN

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  • MAP ROOM

    HUNTERS POINT MAP

    by Kevin Walsh April 17, 2025
    by Kevin Walsh April 17, 2025 1 comment

    DOMINIE’S Hoek (Hook), originally the western end of the town of Newtown, was originally settled when a tract of land was awarded to Everard Bogardus, a Dutch Reformed minister (dominie),…

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  • One Shots

    GERMANIA ON THE BOWERY

    by Kevin Walsh April 16, 2025
    by Kevin Walsh April 16, 2025 1 comment

    THE old Germania Bank building, 190 Bowery at Spring Street, has become a mecca for graffiti birds; its exterior is faded, rusted, corroded glory, with Beaux-Arts hints of another age splattered…

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  • Cemeteries

    JAMES DAVIS, ST. PAUL’S CHURCHYARD

    by Kevin Walsh April 15, 2025
    by Kevin Walsh April 15, 2025 1 comment

    THE dead of winter is a natural time to commune with the dead and in late January I was stumbling around in St. Paul’s Churchyard, which I’ve neglected over the…

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  • One Shots

    CHRISTOPHER STREET…OR IS IT

    by Kevin Walsh April 14, 2025
    by Kevin Walsh April 14, 2025 5 comments

    VERY infrequently in New York City, you’ll find a Street With No Name. For many years, a roadway way down at the southwest end of Bay Ridge, along Dyker Beach…

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  • Walks

    JAMAICA AVENUE 2025

    by Kevin Walsh April 13, 2025
    by Kevin Walsh April 13, 2025 12 comments

    In early February 2025, a month that was generally cold with at least some snow, unlike recent winters, I took advantage of a relatively mild Saturday and walked Jamaica Avenue…

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  • One Shots

    MOUNT EDEN MALLS

    by Kevin Walsh April 10, 2025
    by Kevin Walsh April 10, 2025 2 comments

    UNTIL 1926 the northern end of Claremont Park in the Bronx was bordered by a single lane street first called Walnut, for numerous walnut trees in the area, and then…

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  • Cemeteries

    BLOODY CUTTER’S GRAVE, DOUGLASTON

    by Kevin Walsh April 9, 2025
    by Kevin Walsh April 9, 2025 1 comment

    In 2007, on Forgotten New York’s first Douglaston-Little Neck tour, the late great Nigey Lennon, author-musician (The Sagebrush Bohemian: Mark Twain In California, Reinventing the Wheel) gives me a breather…

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  • One ShotsSubways & Trains

    BAYSIDE STATION INTERIOR

    by Kevin Walsh April 8, 2025
    by Kevin Walsh April 8, 2025 5 comments

    A very short post today. It looks as if I am ready to embark on another Forgotten New York photo series, Long Island RR station interiors. Usually they are well-maintained…

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  • One Shots

    SUNNYSIDE DOUGHBOY 2018

    by Kevin Walsh April 7, 2025
    by Kevin Walsh April 7, 2025 2 comments

    TURNOUT was a bit down, but nonetheless enthusiastic, for Forgotten NY’s Sunnyside tour on a drizzly day in October 2018. Here the group is photographed at the Sunnyside Doughboy in…

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  • One Shots

    ARMILLARY, BROOKLYN PROMENADE

    by Kevin Walsh April 6, 2025
    by Kevin Walsh April 6, 2025 1 comment

    I wish I knew how to read an armillary. Its four intersecting hoops were teaching tools that illustrated the geocentric universe. With a model of Earth at their center, the…

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  • FNY CROSSTOWN

    EAST 88TH STREET, YORKVILLE

    by Kevin Walsh April 5, 2025
    by Kevin Walsh April 5, 2025 17 comments

    FOR the latest FNY Crosstown, I selected an uptown street in Yorkville/Upper East Side, an area I have neglected over the years and like many neighborhoods around town, a spot…

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  • One Shots

    WILLOUGHBY STREET 2017

    by Kevin Walsh April 4, 2025
    by Kevin Walsh April 4, 2025 0 comment

    HERE’S Willoughby Street in the fall of 2017 on an impassably busy weekday afternoon. I don’t look back on my unemployed days in the 2010s with much fondness with the…

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