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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 11 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 9 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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  • Walks

    CORONA to ASTORIA

    by Kevin Walsh February 9, 2020
    by Kevin Walsh February 9, 2020 5 comments

    From May to December 2019 I had a high-paying (by my standards) but perplexing job at a Very Small Design Firm a couple of blocks from Columbus Circle. I was…

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  • One Shots

    “THRONES” IN CORONA

    by Kevin Walsh October 6, 2019
    by Kevin Walsh October 6, 2019 5 comments

    As I was aimlessly meandering around Corona, crazed from the 80+ Corona heat, I spotted something interesting on the corner of 104th Street and 39th Avenue: specifically, 38-14 104th Street.…

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  • One ShotsSigns

    SACKETT COURT, Corona

    by Kevin Walsh September 25, 2019
    by Kevin Walsh September 25, 2019 5 comments

    While stumbling around Corona today, I was looking for odd bits of infrastructure that pointed the way to the past. They’re not hard to find because Corona is a rather…

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  • One ShotsSubways & Trains

    ASTORIA, CORONA and BEYOND, Hunters Point

    by Kevin Walsh July 17, 2019
    by Kevin Walsh July 17, 2019 5 comments

    I’ve written about this fascinating mosaic sign at the Hunters Point Avenue #7 train station before, but it bears repeating. In the good old days, there was more than one…

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  • Forgotten Slices

    HARPER STREET, Corona

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

    By SERGEY KADINSKY Forgotten NY correspondent At the spot where Flushing Creek widens into Flushing Bay, there is a Department of Transportation storage yard and asphalt plant with a unique…

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