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    JUNCTION BOULEVARD

    by Kevin Walsh March 10, 2024
    by Kevin Walsh March 10, 2024 8 comments

    JUNCTION Boulevard splits the heart of western Queens, dividing neighborhoods as it goes. It forms the undefended barrier between Jackson Heights and East Elmhurst north of Roosevelt Avenue at the…

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  • Trolleys

    TROLLEY REMNANT, JUNCTION BOULEVARD

    by Kevin Walsh March 4, 2024
    by Kevin Walsh March 4, 2024 21 comments

    JUNCTION Boulevard’s name is somewhat mysterious. Literally, from Latin, “junction” means “joining” or where things come together. But what originally came together here in western Queens? My guess is either…

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  • One Shots

    SAULTELL AVENUE, CORONA 1937

    by Kevin Walsh September 9, 2023
    by Kevin Walsh September 9, 2023 8 comments

    TODAY’S view in older Queens takes us back to 1937 and this view of Saultell Avenue looking north toward Corona Avenue/111th Street, with the still undeveloped Flushing Meadows-Corona Park in…

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  • One Shots

    FROM CORONA WITH LOVE

    by Kevin Walsh September 5, 2023
    by Kevin Walsh September 5, 2023 3 comments

    BEFORE the land between Elmhurst and Flushing was developed in the 1850′s, there were only a dozen families living in the area. From the highest point on a hill 108…

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  • Subways & Trains

    PLATFORM LIGHTING, Corona-Flushing

    by Kevin Walsh March 20, 2023
    by Kevin Walsh March 20, 2023 5 comments

    An aspect of subways and railroads in New York City that has never gotten deserved scrutiny is the wide variety of platform lighting found around town both in the subways…

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  • MAP ROOMStreet Necrology

    DEPEYSTER AND TIEMANN, Corona

    by Kevin Walsh May 28, 2022
    by Kevin Walsh May 28, 2022 15 comments

    On Facebook, William Padron supplies this map displayed map inside a vintage-1917 IRT Lo-V type trailer subway car #4902 at the New York Transit Museum. Lincoln (52nd), Fisk (69th), Junction Avenue…

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  • Forgotten Slices

    EIFFEL TOWER II, Corona

    by Kevin Walsh December 7, 2021
    by Kevin Walsh December 7, 2021 6 comments

    I have chronicled the various Statue of Liberty knockoffs around town since the very beginnings of Forgotten New York over 20 years ago, most notably the 37-foot high replica that…

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  • Forgotten Slices

    NATIONAL STREET, Corona

    by Kevin Walsh May 26, 2021
    by Kevin Walsh May 26, 2021 12 comments

    In Corona, there’s a street that runs between two railroads that’s named for a racetrack. National Street, running diagonally in the Corona street grid, is the community’s main shopping strip,…

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  • One ShotsSubways & Trains

    CORONA PLAZA STATION

    by Kevin Walsh May 25, 2021
    by Kevin Walsh May 25, 2021 10 comments

    After a walk from Flushing straight through Flushing Meadows-Corona Park and into Corona, which I’ll discuss on a separate FNY page, it was time to get the #7 back to…

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  • One Shots

    X MARKS THE SPOT!

    by Kevin Walsh April 1, 2021
    by Kevin Walsh April 1, 2021 9 comments

    There are but two streets in New York City that begin with X. Both are fairly nondescript, but I’m glad they’re there, since X has always gotten short shrift in…

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  • Forgotten Slices

    HEALTHY PARKS

    by Kevin Walsh March 16, 2020
    by Kevin Walsh March 16, 2020 6 comments

    By SERGEY KADINSKYForgotten NY correspondent With the Coronavirus compelling New Yorkers into a springtime quarantine, my hometown borough has two small parks with “Health” in their names. Their locations take…

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  • Roads

    CORONA AVENUE

    by Kevin Walsh March 8, 2020
    by Kevin Walsh March 8, 2020 10 comments

    During this period of fear if not panic over the coronavirus that is sickening parts of the world (in March 2020) many non-New Yorkers would be surprised to know that…

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