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    PHANTOM AVENUE W

    by Kevin Walsh July 30, 2025
    by Kevin Walsh July 30, 2025 9 comments

    TAKE a walk south on East 15th Street from Gravesend Neck Road and opposite #2305 East 15th, freestanding house, you’ll see a group of 3-story multifamily buildings with balconies and…

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    GIGLIO

    by Kevin Walsh July 18, 2025
    by Kevin Walsh July 18, 2025 2 comments

    WHILE most people in Williamsburg’s Italian section know about the Our Lady of Mount Carmel and San Paolino di Nola Feast in which thousands of revelers pack the streets every mid-July…

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    ENGINE 240

    by Kevin Walsh July 16, 2025
    by Kevin Walsh July 16, 2025 0 comment

    ENGINE 240/Battalion 48 on Prospect Ave. south of Greenwood is one of Brooklyn’s and NYC’s more exotic firehouses, with a corner turret with intricately carved stonework. My friend Emily Nonko…

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  • Subways & Trains

    INTERBOROUGH EXPRESS ROUTE

    by Kevin Walsh July 5, 2025
    by Kevin Walsh July 5, 2025 24 comments

    I have been thinking about the Interborough Express, a proposed mass transit line connecting Bay Ridge and Jackson Heights running mainly along the rights of way of the NY &…

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  • Forgotten Slices

    BROOKLYN-QUEENS BORDER CENTENNIAL

    by Kevin Walsh July 3, 2025
    by Kevin Walsh July 3, 2025 10 comments

    No one is really celebrating it, but on the eve of the nation’s 249th anniversary, I’d like to mention another anniversary: the redrawing of the Brooklyn-Queens borderline separating present-day neighborhoods…

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  • Walks

    5TH AVENUE SUNSET PARK

    by Kevin Walsh June 29, 2025
    by Kevin Walsh June 29, 2025 4 comments

    BACK in March I walked sections of 4th and 5th Avenues in Sunset Park, an area I had neglected, at least on foot. I have traveled beneath 4th Avenue on…

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  • One Shots

    VON GLAHN WAREHOUSE CLINTON HILL

    by Kevin Walsh June 23, 2025
    by Kevin Walsh June 23, 2025 2 comments

    I will use a shot from Street View today. I have been past Washington and Park Avenues in Clinton Hill a few times over the last few years, but somehow…

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  • AlleysStreet Lamps

    HARRISON ALLEY VINEGAR HILL

    by Kevin Walsh June 19, 2025
    by Kevin Walsh June 19, 2025 2 comments

    DUMBO, the section of Brooklyn beneath the Manhattan and Brooklyn Bridges, was by and large an industrial and maufacturing outpost for most of its existence; only lately has it become…

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  • Alleys

    DAHL COURT

    by Kevin Walsh June 16, 2025
    by Kevin Walsh June 16, 2025 2 comments

    In a realm where dead end alleys are few and far between, many years ago during my bicycle rides throughout Brooklyn I noted Dahl Court, a pleasant cul de sac…

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  • MAP ROOM

    BROOKLYN ROADS 1904

    by Kevin Walsh June 11, 2025
    by Kevin Walsh June 11, 2025 6 comments

    We don’t have time machines. Oh, the changes I’d make if I could go back in time. However, we do have photographs, archives and maps to show us what things…

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  • One Shots

    WALSH COURT, 1940-1980-2020

    by Kevin Walsh June 9, 2025
    by Kevin Walsh June 9, 2025 5 comments

    THERE’S only one street in NYC officially named Walsh (my name) in NYC, the one-block Walsh Court between East 3rd and 5th (East 4th does not intersect) along the LIRR…

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  • One Shots

    CARROLL GARDENS WEATHERVANE

    by Kevin Walsh June 3, 2025
    by Kevin Walsh June 3, 2025 9 comments

    As Forgotten NY fans know, I wander the streets with a camera, seeking out bits of unusual infrastructure. I was snooping around Carroll Gardens and Gowanus recently when I spotted…

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