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  • One ShotsStreet Lamps

    PARKING LOT LAMPS, Auburndale

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

    You find the darndest things, just walking around with a camera. At Francis Lewis Boulevard and 35th Avenue there’s a mini-mall, a shopping center really, anchored by a Food Universe…

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  • Forgotten Slices

    UTOPIA PARKWAY AND JOSEPH CORNELL

    by Kevin Walsh August 25, 2020
    by Kevin Walsh August 25, 2020 9 comments

    The word “utopia” comes from two Greek words meaning “not” and “place,” and so, the word literally means “no place.” It was coined in 1516 by St. Thomas More as…

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  • One ShotsSubways & Trains

    192nd STREET, Auburndale

    by Kevin Walsh July 27, 2018
    by Kevin Walsh July 27, 2018 2 comments

    Although it might look like it, I’m not standing in a burial crypt visiting the dear departed who died in 2003. No, I am on 192nd Street between 39th Avenue…

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  • One ShotsSubways & Trains

    MP-72 CARS AT AUBURNDALE

    by Kevin Walsh September 21, 2016
    by Kevin Walsh September 21, 2016 0 comment

    In 1901, Auburndale, the neighborhood just east of Flushing, Queens, was empty farmland. Enter the New England Development & Improvement Co., which bought the 90-acre Thomas Willets farm, and lo and…

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  • Street Scenes

    KISSENA PARK CORRIDOR

    by Kevin Walsh July 7, 2012
    by Kevin Walsh July 7, 2012 20 comments

    After spending my first 35 years in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn, I moved to Queens in 1993, in that gray area on the borders of Flushing, Auburndale and Fresh Meadows. My…

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  • Walks

    FROM FLUSHING TO BAYSIDE

    by Kevin Walsh March 25, 2012
    by Kevin Walsh March 25, 2012 206 comments

    On a cloudy afternoon in March I took a bus to my old neighborhood at Sanford Avenue and 158th Street and walked through the area unofficially known as Boadway-Flushing as…

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  • Forgotten Slices

    St. KEVIN’S and the Tudors of Auburndale

    by Kevin Walsh May 18, 2011
    by Kevin Walsh May 18, 2011 0 comment

    Caoimhghin, since Anglicized to Kevin (the name means “handsome by birth”) was an Irish monk who lived, according to tradition, for 120 years, from 498-618, in what is now County Wicklow. According…

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  • Forgotten SlicesNeighborhoods

    A walk in AUBURNDALE

    by Kevin Walsh December 3, 2010
    by Kevin Walsh December 3, 2010 8 comments

    In 1901, Auburndale, east of Flushing, Queens, was empty farmland. Enter the New England Development & Improvement Co., which bought the 90-acre Thomas Willets farm, and lo and behold, Auburndale the…

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  • Roads

    FRESH MEADOW LANE, Queens

    by Kevin Walsh August 29, 2010
    by Kevin Walsh August 29, 2010 1 comment

    I resided in fab Flushing between 1993 and 2007, and during that time both on foot and by bike, familiarized myself with the older routes through the area including the maze…

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  • RoadsStreet Scenes

    ROCKY HILL ROAD, Queens, Part 1

    by Kevin Walsh July 11, 2010
    by Kevin Walsh July 11, 2010 0 comment

    For decades I’ve been a map fan and a map collector — I have maps of all the major American cities, many of which I acquired in the 1970s, making most…

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  • Subways & Trains

    PORT WASHINGTON BRANCH Part 2 Auburndale to Port Washington

    by Kevin Walsh May 16, 2002
    by Kevin Walsh May 16, 2002 2 comments

    CONTINUED FROM PART 1   Auburndale This is possibly the final photograph taken of the “old” Auburndale station. Formerly an at-grade station, the line was placed on an embankment and elevated…

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  • Subways & Trains

    LONG ISLAND RAIL ROAD RETIRED FLEET

    by Kevin Walsh April 6, 2000
    by Kevin Walsh April 6, 2000 5 comments

    In the past few months (as of this writing, April 2000) the Long Island Rail Road (or, as some call it, the Long Island Fail Road) has completely replaced its…

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