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  • MAP ROOM

    BELLEROSE, 1922

    by Kevin Walsh July 30, 2024
    by Kevin Walsh July 30, 2024 5 comments

    THIS is how Hagstrom Maps, founded in 1916 as a photo reproduction and retouching house that began selling maps a few years later, depicted the Bellerose section of eastern Queens…

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  • One Shots

    JERICHO TURNPIKE, Bellerose

    by Kevin Walsh December 2, 2021
    by Kevin Walsh December 2, 2021 14 comments

    INFRASTRUCTURALLY, there’s a lot going on here at the undefended Queens-Nassau borderline where Jericho Turnpike/Jamaica Avenue encounter Braddock Avenue and the Cross Island Parkway. On the left, we see the…

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  • Forgotten SlicesRoads

    95TH AVENUE

    by Kevin Walsh July 7, 2020
    by Kevin Walsh July 7, 2020 5 comments

    During the week I was scuttling around Floral Park, just south of Little Neck, testing out a healing sore calf and looking for some shade, since it was 95 degrees.…

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  • One ShotsSigns

    ELBEE CHEMISTS, Bellerose 1999

    by Kevin Walsh March 5, 2019
    by Kevin Walsh March 5, 2019 10 comments

    March 2019 marks Forgotten New York’s 20th anniversary. To mark the occasion, I’ve re-scanned about 150 key images from the early days of FNY from 35MM prints. In the early…

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  • Walks

    JAMAICA AVENUE, Queens

    by Kevin Walsh June 6, 2011
    by Kevin Walsh June 6, 2011 161 comments

    After having previously walked Jamaica Avenue from its beginnings in Brooklyn out to Lefferts Boulevard and then along its easternmost stretch (now known as Jericho Turnpike at the insistence of the…

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  • Walks

    JERICHO TURNPIKE, Floral Park-Bellerose, Queens

    by Kevin Walsh August 5, 2007
    by Kevin Walsh August 5, 2007 25 comments

    There’s a wide, 6-lane boulevard way out in eastern Queens recently renamed for a small town of about 14,000 in eastern Nassau. Settled by Welshman Robert Williams after he purchased…

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