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    BLIMPIE, Downtown Brooklyn

    by Kevin Walsh January 10, 2023
    by Kevin Walsh January 10, 2023 57 comments

    THERE was a time when Blimpie ruled the roost as far as fast food submarine sandwiches (known by a variety of names elsewhere in the country) in the New York…

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    DOWNTOWN BROOKLYN, QUICKLY

    by Kevin Walsh December 25, 2022
    by Kevin Walsh December 25, 2022 11 comments

    Continued from On the Eighth Day On this early summer day in June 2022, I traveled down 8th Street in Park Slope (with a detour to 9th) and then up…

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  • One ShotsStreet Lamps

    BROOKLYN’S OLDEST CROOK

    by Kevin Walsh June 14, 2022
    by Kevin Walsh June 14, 2022 3 comments

    PASSING by Court and Remsen Street always stirs up some feelings of reminiscence for me because between 1975 and 1980, I passed the corner thousands of times as a student…

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  • Walks

    FULTON MALL 2022

    by Kevin Walsh April 24, 2022
    by Kevin Walsh April 24, 2022 17 comments

    BROOKLYN starts with Fulton Street, and almost ends with it, as well. Brooklyn began as a small Dutch settlement along the East River, with easy passage to Manhattan by ferry.…

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  • Ads

    AN OLD BROMIDE, DOWNTOWN BROOKLYN

    by Kevin Walsh April 20, 2022
    by Kevin Walsh April 20, 2022 2 comments

    FORGOTTEN Fan Michael Towers was out for a stroll in the Downtown Brooklyn-Brooklyn Heights area when he encountered a recent teardown at the corner of Fulton Street Mall and Red…

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    MORE HIGH STREET RELICS

    by Kevin Walsh December 21, 2021
    by Kevin Walsh December 21, 2021 9 comments

    I just keep finding more and more artifacts at the High Street IND subway station serving A and C trains. One of the artifacts is the name of the station…

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  • One ShotsStreet LampsSubways & Trains

    ATLANTIC AND FLATBUSH, Part 2

    by Kevin Walsh November 13, 2020
    by Kevin Walsh November 13, 2020 15 comments

    The other day, I posted a photo of Atlantic and Flatbush Avenues in about 1910, remarking on what has changed and what has stayed the same since then. Today I…

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  • One ShotsSubways & Trains

    ATLANTIC and FLATBUSH AVENUE

    by Kevin Walsh November 10, 2020
    by Kevin Walsh November 10, 2020 14 comments

    In downtown Brooklyn, Atlantic and Flatbush Avenues meet at a triangle, with the third side filled by 4th Avenue. The triangle was formerly known as Times Plaza, after a long-defunct…

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  • One Shots

    MYRTLE AVENUE AT JAY STREET, 1971

    by Kevin Walsh May 20, 2019
    by Kevin Walsh May 20, 2019 5 comments

    Bill Newkirk of Newkirk Images sent this photo over of Myrtle Avenue at Jay Street looking east. Just about everything in this photo except the building on the left, #88…

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  • One ShotsSubways & Trains

    ATLANTIC AVENUE STATION

    by Kevin Walsh May 4, 2019
    by Kevin Walsh May 4, 2019 2 comments

    March 2019 marks Forgotten New York’s 20th anniversary. To celebrate the occasion, I’ve re-scanned about 150 key images from the early days of FNY from 35MM prints. In the early…

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  • MAP ROOMOne ShotsStreet Necrology

    HAGSTROM BROOKLYN 1922

    by Kevin Walsh February 20, 2019
    by Kevin Walsh February 20, 2019 1 comment

    Unlike Queens, which was in the midst of overhauling its street nomenclature in 1922, pushing out names and old numbered streets and instituting a borough-wide numbering system, the map of…

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  • One Shots

    TIVOLI THEATRE, Downtown Brooklyn

    by Kevin Walsh November 7, 2018
    by Kevin Walsh November 7, 2018 6 comments

    The Tivoli Theatre, formerly at 363 Fulton Street just north of Adams, had a magnificent semicircular marquee, with white letters on a black background. In this 1940 tax photo recently…

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