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  • One Shots

    ELMHURST’S OLDEST BUILDING

    by Kevin Walsh October 18, 2022
    by Kevin Walsh October 18, 2022 2 comments

    I have been looking back on ForgottenTours of the past, reminiscing somewhat because for a variety of reasons, including the Pandemic, I have not been able to do a live…

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  • Signs

    MOUNT EVEREST WAY, Jackson Heights

    by Kevin Walsh July 28, 2022
    by Kevin Walsh July 28, 2022 1 comment

    MOUNT Everest is the tallest mountain in the world at just over 29000 feet (about 8849 meters) and sits on the border of China and Nepal, the mountain George Mallory…

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    CLAREMONT TERRACE, 1937

    by Kevin Walsh March 12, 2022
    by Kevin Walsh March 12, 2022 5 comments

    IT’S a rainy day and I was going through the Forgotten NY photo archive when I ran across this photo by the Somach photo studio of the Elmhurst RR grade…

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  • Neighborhoods

    NEWTOWN HALL

    by Kevin Walsh February 20, 2022
    by Kevin Walsh February 20, 2022 7 comments

    It’s that time of the month again…when I want a weekend off, that is. I’m handing it off to Sergey again for a visit to Elmhurst, or rather, its predecessor……

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  • One ShotsStreet Lamps

    ELMHURST HOSPITAL CROOKS

    by Kevin Walsh December 27, 2021
    by Kevin Walsh December 27, 2021 3 comments

    STRANGE that we remember things somewhat fondly after awhile that at the time, were borderline dangerous or scary. In April 2011 I was patrolling the Newtown Creek area with Mitch…

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  • Roads

    HELLGATE FERRY ROAD, Part 2

    by Kevin Walsh September 27, 2020
    by Kevin Walsh September 27, 2020 4 comments

    Continued from Part 1 Restricted by the Covid crisis, or the Great Infection, In May and June, only camera foraging I did was in the neighborhoods surrounding my home in…

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  • Roads

    LAUREL HILL BOULEVARD, Queens

    by Kevin Walsh August 9, 2020
    by Kevin Walsh August 9, 2020 15 comments

    I seem to return to the lost neighborhood of Laurel Hill, Queens, time and again. I think whoever lives and works there call it West Maspeth these days. It’s a…

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  • One Shots

    IRELAND STREET, Elmhurst

    by Kevin Walsh March 17, 2020
    by Kevin Walsh March 17, 2020 0 comment

    There’s only one Ireland Street in New York City, and I’m not sure it honors the Emerald Isle at all. It’s part of many groupings of streets in Queens (and…

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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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  • One Shots

    CLAREMONT TERRACE, Elmhurst 1999

    by Kevin Walsh March 22, 2019
    by Kevin Walsh March 22, 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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    MASPETH-ELMHURST 1852

    by Kevin Walsh July 31, 2018
    by Kevin Walsh July 31, 2018 8 comments

    Though a rough grid has been in command of the Queens street layout as dozens of separate housing developments knit together disparate small towns in Queens over the decades of…

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  • One Shots

    JAMAICA SAVINGS BANK, Elmhurst

    by Kevin Walsh February 23, 2018
    by Kevin Walsh February 23, 2018 6 comments

    The former Jamaica Savings Bank on Queens Boulevard and 56th Avenue exhibits phases, like the moon, depending on where you view it. Designed and built for Jamaica Savings Bank in…

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