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    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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    LAUREL HILL BOULEVARD, Queens

    by Kevin Walsh August 9, 2020
    by Kevin Walsh August 9, 2020 12 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 8 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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    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 7 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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  • One Shots

    51st AVENUE, Elmhurst

    by Kevin Walsh February 21, 2018
    by Kevin Walsh February 21, 2018 1 comment

    A classic picture of Deep Queens here at 51st Avenue looking west from Jacobus Street, an intersection only Elmhurstians might know. It is an eastern extension of Maurice Avenue, which…

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  • Subways & Trains

    FLUSHING LINE CENTENNIAL Part 3

    by Kevin Walsh April 30, 2017
    by Kevin Walsh April 30, 2017 10 comments

    Continued from Part 2 Other than the BMT 4th Avenue Broadway Line (N, R, Q and now W trains) perhaps the majority of my subway rides for six decades have been…

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  • One Shots

    LOST ELMHURST PUBLIC LIBRARY

    by Kevin Walsh December 17, 2016
    by Kevin Walsh December 17, 2016 0 comment

    “Who is Cord Meyer?” I yanked the correct “question” out of my hat as the developer who renamed Newtown, at what is hoped to be the first annual “Queens Jeopardy”…

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  • Forgotten Slices

    UNITED SHERPA ASSOCIATION, Elmhurst

    by Kevin Walsh March 29, 2016
    by Kevin Walsh March 29, 2016 1 comment

    Turn a corner in Queens, and you never know what ethic group you’ll run into, especially in the Elmhurst-Jackson Heights-Flushing axis, home to dozens of nationalities, especially from South America…

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  • One Shots

    MATHEWS MODEL FLATS, Elmhurst

    by Kevin Walsh March 28, 2016
    by Kevin Walsh March 28, 2016 3 comments

    The streets of Long Island City, Ridgewood and to a lesser degree, Woodside, are lined with blond bricked Matthews Model Flats, each unit produced for $8000, beginning in 1915 by…

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