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    PENNY BRIDGE STATION, 1970s

    by Kevin Walsh May 10, 2024
    by Kevin Walsh May 10, 2024 10 comments

    THROUGH much of the eighteenth, nineteenth and twentieth centuries, Penny Bridge was a toll bridge on the Bushwick & Newtown Turnpike (end of Meeker Ave). In the seventeenth century, it…

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  • Cemeteries

    BATTLE AX OF LIC

    by Kevin Walsh February 21, 2024
    by Kevin Walsh February 21, 2024 5 comments

    TIME grows short before bedtime, so I’ll repeat an item from my twilight Calvary Cemetery-Blissville walk in November 2022. Mitch Waxman of the Newtown Pentacle reports that the Catholic diocese…

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  • Neighborhoods

    ST. RAPHAEL, BLISSVILLE

    by Kevin Walsh December 13, 2023
    by Kevin Walsh December 13, 2023 5 comments

    St. Raphael’s Church, named for an archangel, dominates views from Hunters Point, Blissville, Calvary Cemetery, and Sunnyside. It was built in 1885 here at Greenpoint and Hunters Point Avenues and replaced…

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  • CemeteriesOne Shots

    AL SMITH, CALVARY CEMETERY

    by Kevin Walsh October 16, 2023
    by Kevin Walsh October 16, 2023 7 comments

    AL SMITH (1873-1944), is interred in Calvary Cemetery in Blissville, Queens. He was Governor of New York State for four two-year terms (elected in 1918, 1922, 1924 and 1926) and the…

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  • Walks

    CREEK WALK 2017

    by Kevin Walsh March 5, 2023
    by Kevin Walsh March 5, 2023 9 comments

    SUNSHINE is my undecaffeinated coffee, my 5 Hour Energy, my Red Bull. I get more done on days with full sunshine than I do on overcast days; nonetheless, I have…

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  • One Shots

    VAN IDERSTINE SMOKESTACK, BLISSVILLE

    by Kevin Walsh February 9, 2023
    by Kevin Walsh February 9, 2023 13 comments

    By the time I snapped this formidable smokestack once belonging to the Peter Van Iderstine glue factory along Newtown Creek in the spring of 2017, operations had long ago moved…

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  • CemeteriesWalks

    EVENING IN BLISSVILLE

    by Kevin Walsh December 4, 2022
    by Kevin Walsh December 4, 2022 10 comments

    On a recent Saturday I traveled around Blissville in western Queens with my friend Mitch Waxman, who I call the King of Newtown Creek. He is a historian and preservationist…

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  • One ShotsSigns

    BUS ROUTE MAP, Blissville

    by Kevin Walsh April 27, 2021
    by Kevin Walsh April 27, 2021 9 comments

    Here’s a small bus route sign at Greenpoint and Gale Avenues in Blissville, at the entrance to Calvary Cemetery. Today, bus route maps are somewhat larger and are mounted on…

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  • Neighborhoods

    MASPETH ROVE

    by Kevin Walsh July 12, 2020
    by Kevin Walsh July 12, 2020 10 comments

    I was actually stumped about something to write about this week — I have plenty of unused photos, but not the inclination to write about any of their locales (they…

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  • Forgotten Slices

    OUT WITH THE OLD K

    by Kevin Walsh April 27, 2017
    by Kevin Walsh April 27, 2017 8 comments

    The fifth bridge to cross the noxious and noisome Newtown Creek between the unglamorous neighborhoods of Greenpoint and Blissville opens to traffic as the rickety bucket of bolts known as…

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  • One Shots

    SPECIAL K, Blissville

    by Kevin Walsh December 31, 2016
    by Kevin Walsh December 31, 2016 0 comment

    In 1939 Robert Moses arched the imposing Kosciuszko Bridge, named for a Polish compatriot of the American Revolution, over the noxious and noisome Newtown Creek. Although The Special K originally boasted…

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    CITY VIEW HOTEL, Blissville

    by Kevin Walsh December 20, 2016
    by Kevin Walsh December 20, 2016 0 comment

    Greenpoint Avenue has about as much mileage in Queens as it does in Brooklyn. We’re on the border of Blissville, a small wedge of Queens positioned between Newtown Creek, Calvary…

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