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  • Cemeteries

    NEW UTRECHT CEMETERY

    by Kevin Walsh June 20, 2021
    by Kevin Walsh June 20, 2021 4 comments

    Recently, I heard about an opportunity to visit a place I had been past a number of times, but never entered — the cemetery of the Village of New Utrecht…

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  • Walks

    CONEY ISLAND AT BAY

    by Kevin Walsh December 27, 2020
    by Kevin Walsh December 27, 2020 18 comments

    This week’s Sunday page is an expansion of an item I did for SpliceToday in November 2020. The month was pretty mild and I was in the mood for some…

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  • Forgotten SlicesRoads

    KINGS HIGHWAY, Bensonhurst

    by Kevin Walsh October 16, 2018
    by Kevin Walsh October 16, 2018 2 comments

    Kings Highway in Bensonhurst? For over a century, Kings Highway has run through a lot of different neighborhoods, but Bensonhurst isn’t one of them. Well, it isn’t anymore. Today, Kings…

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  • One ShotsSubways & Trains

    SEA BEACH LINE, 18th Avenue

    by Kevin Walsh November 16, 2017
    by Kevin Walsh November 16, 2017 7 comments

    photo: Greater Astoria Historical Society Today, subways are identified by pretty much everyone in NYC by their letter or number. This is a convention that has been in place going…

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  • One ShotsStreet Lamps

    TYPE F, Bensonhurst

    by Kevin Walsh October 4, 2016
    by Kevin Walsh October 4, 2016 0 comment

    New York  City’s Type F lampposts, one in a series of early 20th-Century lampposts named by letter from A to G, once lined side streets in Manhattan and the Bronx…

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  • Walks

    NEW UTRECHT AVENUE, Brooklyn, Part 3

    by Kevin Walsh September 25, 2016
    by Kevin Walsh September 25, 2016 15 comments

    Continued from Part 2 I’ve spent time both on New Utrecht Avenue and under elevated trains in my Forgotten New York years. I’m absolutely fascinated by streets that run underneath…

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  • Walks

    ALONG THE (OTHER) BROOKLYN WATERFRONT, Part 1

    by Kevin Walsh August 16, 2015
    by Kevin Walsh August 16, 2015 23 comments

    This week I was looking at some photos of the Brooklyn waterfront that I took in 2011 along Furman Street. At that time, Brooklyn Bridge Park had been built out…

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  • Forgotten Slices

    CLOCKWISE ON 17th AVENUE

    by Kevin Walsh January 12, 2012
    by Kevin Walsh January 12, 2012 8 comments

    I was dazedly shambling about in Bensonhurst in August, mad with the unbearable 82-degree heat, and in a momentary spark of lucidity, I noticed a tailor shop across from the…

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  • Walks

    86th STREET in Bensonhurst

    by Kevin Walsh December 25, 2011
    by Kevin Walsh December 25, 2011 494 comments

    I mean, one of these days, to walk 86th Street from the Narrows to Gravesend. It is the main east-west street in southwest Brooklyn, and contains many secrets of old.…

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  • Forgotten SlicesNeighborhoods

    The heart of NEW UTRECHT

    by Kevin Walsh February 10, 2010
    by Kevin Walsh February 10, 2010 27 comments

    On the second leg of my quick Bensonhurst trip, I wandered down 84th Street into the heart of ancient New Utrecht. Brooklyn, now co-terminous with Kings County, was once just one, albeit the most…

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  • Forgotten SlicesNeighborhoods

    BENSONHURST BRIEFLY

    by Kevin Walsh February 8, 2010
    by Kevin Walsh February 8, 2010 2 comments

    I lived in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn for 35 years, the last time in 1993 when I gravitated to Queens. I now live on the borderline of Queens and Nassau County. I…

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  • RoadsStreet ScenesWalks

    18th AVENUE, Brooklyn

    by Kevin Walsh February 10, 2008
    by Kevin Walsh February 10, 2008 1 comment

    Your webmaster lived in Bay Ridge between 1957 and 1993 (with an neighborhoodus interruptus in Dyker Heights in 1990-1991) and yet, the adjacent region to the east, Bensonhurst, the vast…

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FORGOTTEN ARTICLES

Lampposts By The Letter [SpliceToday]

Deep South of Central Park [SpliceToday]

Queens’ Beginning and End [SpliceToday]

As Far North as Manhattan Gets [SpliceToday]

Show Me the MONY [SpliceToday]

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