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    IVY HILL ROAD

    by Kevin Walsh April 22, 2023
    by Kevin Walsh April 22, 2023 6 comments

    EXTENDING from Vandervoort Avenue just north of Metropolitan Avenue are a pair of odd dead ends that I would daresay would stump even the most died-in-the-wool Brooklyn street expert. Rewe Street,…

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  • Neighborhoods

    RETURN TO EAST WILLIAMSBURG

    by Kevin Walsh October 10, 2021
    by Kevin Walsh October 10, 2021 6 comments

    EARLY in October 2021 I decided to walk around a tight little enclave of streets located between Bushwick and Varick Avenues on the east and west and Johnson and Flushing…

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  • NeighborhoodsStreet Scenes

    WALKING IN NORTH BROOKLYN

    by Kevin Walsh December 23, 2018
    by Kevin Walsh December 23, 2018 9 comments

    Something about North Brooklyn attracts me during the Christmas season. I have done surveys of both Manhattan and Graham Avenues in December. Today, I chose Humboldt Street, as I have a…

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  • One ShotsRoads

    BOULEVARD AND MESEROLE STREET, East Williamsburg

    by Kevin Walsh November 28, 2017
    by Kevin Walsh November 28, 2017 1 comment

    I’ve known about this chiseled pair of signs, saying Boulevard and Meserole Street, at the corner of Bushwick Avenue and Meserole Street (near the Montrose avenue L train station); there is…

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  • Subways & Trains

    MORGAN AVENUE STATION, East Williamsburg

    by Kevin Walsh February 19, 2017
    by Kevin Walsh February 19, 2017 1 comment

    I am starting a new occasional series in Forgotten NY imaginatively called “Interesting Subway Stations” in which I take a station and profile both the station and the immediate surrounding…

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  • One Shots

    ENGINE 237, East Williamsburg

    by Kevin Walsh January 30, 2017
    by Kevin Walsh January 30, 2017 2 comments

    Remember the stories you read about the 49er goldpanners sifting gold nuggets out of rubble? I suspect not as much gold was found that way as the stories would have…

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  • One ShotsSigns

    OLOFF’S SHOES, East Williamsburg

    by Kevin Walsh September 5, 2016
    by Kevin Walsh September 5, 2016 1 comment

    By GARY FONVILLE Forgotten NY correspondent Your webmaster Kevin Walsh missed this sign for the former Orloff Shoes at 753 Grand Street in East Williamsburgh, Brooklyn in a recent Grand…

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  • Street Scenes

    MONTROSE AVENUE, East Williamsburg

    by Kevin Walsh November 1, 2015
    by Kevin Walsh November 1, 2015 17 comments

    A few weeks ago I walked Meserole Street west, then Montrose Avenue (which is a block south of Meserole) east, then Bushwick Avenue as far south as the Aberdeen Street…

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  • One ShotsSigns

    ITALIAN-AMERICAN GROCERIES, East Williamsburg

    by Kevin Walsh September 19, 2015
    by Kevin Walsh September 19, 2015 2 comments

    This store on Grand Street east of Bushwick Avenue has been closed for some years now, but its burgundy and beige storefront sign is still persevering; I estimate it’s no…

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  • One Shots

    CHAPMAN STATIONERY, East Williamsburg

    by Kevin Walsh September 18, 2015
    by Kevin Walsh September 18, 2015 3 comments

    I have often wondered about the original purpose of this large, brick fortress-like building at the NE corner of Grand Street and Morgan Avenue in East Williamsburg, just west of…

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  • Walks

    METROPOLITAN AVENUE, Part 2

    by Kevin Walsh September 14, 2015
    by Kevin Walsh September 14, 2015 10 comments

    PART 1 | PART 2 | PART 3 | PART 4 | PART 5 Metropolitan Avenue is one of the lengthiest routes between Brooklyn and Queens. It was first built in 1815, give or take a year,…

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  • Subways & Trains

    NYC’s RAILROAD GRADE CROSSINGS, Part 2

    by Kevin Walsh September 14, 2014
    by Kevin Walsh September 14, 2014 6 comments

    CONTINUED FROM PART 1 I have an affinity for subways, trains and railroads… not at the “foamer” level,  but I have enough knowledge to recognize model numbers on most NYC,…

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