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    DANNENHOFFER’S OPALESCENT, Bushwick

    by Kevin Walsh January 13, 2021
    by Kevin Walsh January 13, 2021 2 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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  • Walks

    BUSHWICK TO RIDGEWOOD

    by Kevin Walsh January 13, 2020
    by Kevin Walsh January 13, 2020 12 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 7 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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  • AdsOne Shots

    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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  • CemeteriesForgotten Slices

    MOST HOLY TRINITY CEMETERY, Bushwick

    by Kevin Walsh September 3, 2018
    by Kevin Walsh September 3, 2018 16 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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  • One Shots

    “ARBITRATION ROCK,” Ridgewood

    by Kevin Walsh May 1, 2018
    by Kevin Walsh May 1, 2018 0 comment

    The Van der Ende-Onderdonk House. Flushing and Onderdonk Avenues just past the undefended Brooklyn-Queens border,  was once a working farm, and now has a big back yard. In the middle…

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  • Walks

    MT. OLIVET CEMETERY TO BUSHWICK

    by Kevin Walsh March 26, 2018
    by Kevin Walsh March 26, 2018 10 comments

    Time to do a little bit of catchup in FNY. I go out with the camera all the time, so there’s no surprise that a lot of pictures are in…

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  • One Shots

    HALLELUJAH WAY, Bushwick

    by Kevin Walsh March 15, 2018
    by Kevin Walsh March 15, 2018 4 comments

    I was participating in a NYC trivia quiz sponsored by NYC historians The Bowery Boys (Greg Young and Tom Meyers, whose website, podcasts and book, Adventures In Old New York, are…

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  • One ShotsSubways & Trains

    MYRTLE AND GATES, 1956

    by Kevin Walsh March 14, 2018
    by Kevin Walsh March 14, 2018 4 comments

    photo: Facebook group Electric Traction Enthusiasts There’a a lot going on in this photo of Myrtle and Gates Avenues in Bushwick in 1956. Parts of the road surface are still paved…

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