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    MARIA HERNANDEZ PARK

    by Kevin Walsh May 10, 2025
    by Kevin Walsh May 10, 2025 9 comments

    In the heart of Bushwick is a green superblock named in honor of Maria Hernandez, a neighborhood activist who lived across from the park on Starr Street. It is a…

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    MYRTLE MEMORIALS

    by Kevin Walsh May 28, 2023
    by Kevin Walsh May 28, 2023 5 comments

    WHEN looking for appropriate material for Memorial Day weekend my thoughts turned to Myrtle Avenue, a lengthy street that is about equal parts in Brooklyn and Queens, and I remembered…

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    ULMER PARK LIBRARY, Bath Beach

    by Kevin Walsh April 4, 2022
    by Kevin Walsh April 4, 2022 5 comments

    THE Ulmer Park branch of the Brooklyn Public Library is named for an amusement park and beer garden opened in 1893 at the Bath Beach waterfront along Gravesend Bay by German immigrant…

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  • Walks

    BUSHWICK-RIDGEWOOD WALK No. 2

    by Kevin Walsh July 18, 2021
    by Kevin Walsh July 18, 2021 6 comments

    REALLY, I could have sworn I hadn’t been back in the Bushwick and Ridgewood area for a couple of years, but the internet doesn’t lie (well, some of it does),…

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  • One ShotsSigns

    DANNENHOFFER’S OPALESCENT, Bushwick

    by Kevin Walsh January 13, 2021
    by Kevin Walsh January 13, 2021 3 comments

    Now, that’s a mouthful. Back in the late 1990s and early 2000s, when I was canvassing neighborhoods for Forgotten New York, I “reconnected” with a painted ad for Dannenhoffer Opalescent…

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  • Walks

    BUSHWICK TO RIDGEWOOD Part 2

    by Kevin Walsh January 18, 2020
    by Kevin Walsh January 18, 2020 15 comments

    Continued from Part 1 I stalk neighborhoods with the camera, attempting to see old and decrepit things amid the new and shiny things. I began Forgotten New York when I…

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    BUSHWICK TO RIDGEWOOD

    by Kevin Walsh January 13, 2020
    by Kevin Walsh January 13, 2020 13 comments

    I stalk neighborhoods with the camera, attempting to see old and decrepit things amid the new and shiny things. I began Forgotten New York when I was forty (there was…

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  • One ShotsSigns

    THE HAMS OF IAVARONE, Bushwick-Maspeth

    by Kevin Walsh December 27, 2019
    by Kevin Walsh December 27, 2019 8 comments

    I was meandering my way northeast in Bushwick the other day, heading for 69th Street in Maspeth where I would catch the Q18 bus back to Woodside, and the LIRR…

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  • Walks

    HIGHLAND PARK and RIDGEWOOD RESERVOIR

    by Kevin Walsh July 21, 2019
    by Kevin Walsh July 21, 2019 5 comments

    Before I was so rudely interrupted I was working on this page last weekend, and had it about 80% complete. I hadn’t realized, though, that my WordPress autosave wasn’t activated.…

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  • One Shots

    DECATUR THEATRE, Bushwick

    by Kevin Walsh November 8, 2018
    by Kevin Walsh November 8, 2018 0 comment

    The Decatur Theatre, 1674 (Brooklyn’s) Broadway, just north of Decatur Street, opened in 1914 on the site of a vaudeville house, the People’s Pleasure Palace. I wish they had stuck…

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    J.J. FRIEL, Bushwick

    by Kevin Walsh September 20, 2018
    by Kevin Walsh September 20, 2018 0 comment

    If you are looking out the window of a southbound J train on Broadway in Brooklyn, a number of ancient ads from the early 20th Century or even the late…

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    MOST HOLY TRINITY CEMETERY, Bushwick

    by Kevin Walsh September 3, 2018
    by Kevin Walsh September 3, 2018 23 comments

    By MARIE CARTER The train rumbles through Williamsburg to Bushwick, before exiting into the bright light of day where Most Holy Trinity Cemetery becomes instantly visible. The cemetery is situated…

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