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    KELLOBE MACHINE SHOP, CYPRESS HILLS

    by Kevin Walsh November 11, 2024
    by Kevin Walsh November 11, 2024 1 comment

    NOT a whole lot of “faded ads” I found in the early days of Forgotten NY survive, but a pair on Jamaica Avenue between Marginal Street East and Vermont Avenue…

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    LIDGERWOOD BUILDING 2024

    by Kevin Walsh November 7, 2024
    by Kevin Walsh November 7, 2024 2 comments

    RED HOOK is usually fairly decent at preserving its relics (despite the lack of action by the Landmarks Preservation Commission), with the exception of the dry docks since replaced by…

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    DODGERTOWN, AND OTHER BROOKLYN HOUSING

    by Kevin Walsh November 2, 2024
    by Kevin Walsh November 2, 2024 9 comments

    DURING the past week for my weekly item in SpliceToday I wrote about Brooklyn Dodgers and Ebbets Field remnants in Brooklyn. The Dodgers won their 8th World Series and became…

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    NEW UTRECHT IN DAYLIGHT

    by Kevin Walsh October 29, 2024
    by Kevin Walsh October 29, 2024 3 comments

    THREE blocks of New Utrecht Avenue are uncovered by an elevated train. When riding the buses all over southern Brooklyn as a kid, I was on the B35 one day…

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    GOLDEN DRAGON, BOROUGH PARK

    by Kevin Walsh October 28, 2024
    by Kevin Walsh October 28, 2024 4 comments

    PRIOR to my visit to the NY Sign Museum, I found a good one at the beginning of a walk that took me into Borough Park, Windsor Terrace and Park…

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    NEW YORK SIGN MUSEUM, EAST NEW YORK

    by Kevin Walsh October 27, 2024
    by Kevin Walsh October 27, 2024 8 comments

    FOR years, one of my ambitions has been to visit Cincinnati. Not for the strange chili or to take in a Reds or Bengals game. It was to visit Todd…

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    HANAN SHOE FACTORY, DUMBO

    by Kevin Walsh October 24, 2024
    by Kevin Walsh October 24, 2024 1 comment

    In December 2023 I entered Brooklyn for the first time in what I estimate was three years, a borough I lived in for 35 years; Covid-19 and then a succession…

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    NEW LOTS TOWN HALL

    by Kevin Walsh October 21, 2024
    by Kevin Walsh October 21, 2024 9 comments

    NOT too many of Kings County’s or any other boroughs’ town halls remain. The history of Kings County’s towns is complicated… but the $2 history is: The county’s original towns were Brooklyn (today’s…

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    WARBASSE HOUSES, CONEY ISLAND

    by Kevin Walsh October 19, 2024
    by Kevin Walsh October 19, 2024 4 comments

    As the trestle carrying the Culver Line elevated train (F), over Neptune Avenue, the Amalgamated Dr. James Peter Warbasse Houses loom up in the background. The co-op apartments were built by United Housing Foundation and the…

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    GREEN LANTERNS, GREENWOOD HEIGHTS

    by Kevin Walsh October 17, 2024
    by Kevin Walsh October 17, 2024 6 comments

    MOST police precincts in NYC display two green lamps at the entrance. The tradition of green lights dates back to colonial times.

 According to the NYPD website, “It is believed…

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    BRIQ BUILDING, GREENWOOD HEIGHTS

    by Kevin Walsh October 16, 2024
    by Kevin Walsh October 16, 2024 1 comment

    MAN, I’m digging the old brick factory buildings in “South Brooklyn” that have since been repurposed. 132 32nd Street between 3rd and 4th Avenues is just such a building, a…

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    EMPIRE SWITCHBOARD, GREENWOOD HEIGHTS

    by Kevin Walsh October 15, 2024
    by Kevin Walsh October 15, 2024 7 comments

    PLAIN, unadorned brick buildings, as Bernie Taupin/Elton John would put it, say so much. They are gradually disappearing around town, with those that haven’t been adapted for residential use are…

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