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    DIPLOMAT BOWL, Flatbush

    by Kevin Walsh October 15, 2021
    by Kevin Walsh October 15, 2021 16 comments

    THE ghost of the Diplomat Bowl still holds forth on Snyder Avenue east of Flatbush Avenue in Flatbush, across from the former Flatbush Town Hall (before it was annexed by…

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    FLATBUSH TOWN HALL

    by Kevin Walsh February 18, 2021
    by Kevin Walsh February 18, 2021 3 comments

    Central Flatbush, clustered around Flatbush and Church Avenues, boasts a number of historic buildings in a relatively small area, similar to other originally Dutch Colonial NYC towns like Flushing and…

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    FLATBUSH DUTCH REFORMED CHURCH

    by Kevin Walsh July 27, 2020
    by Kevin Walsh July 27, 2020 12 comments

    Writing this on July 27, 2020 on yet another 93-degree day, I looked back in the archives to December 2015 (which was a good 13 degrees above normal, but at…

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    LINDEN BOULEVARD

    by Kevin Walsh May 26, 2020
    by Kevin Walsh May 26, 2020 22 comments

    From beginning to end, from Brooklyn through Queens and into Nassau County, Linden Boulevard is one of NYC’s lengthiest thoroughfares, running a total of 12.3 miles. However it’s also unique…

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    FUTURE OBSOLESCENCE, Flatbush

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

    by GARY FONVILLEForgotten NY correspondent This may be the first of a kind for FNY.  Kevin Walsh and I have taken an untold number of pictures of signs that represented businesses that no…

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    THE QUENTIN ROAD STORY

    by Kevin Walsh February 27, 2019
    by Kevin Walsh February 27, 2019 6 comments

    Though southern Brooklyn’s streets are dominated by numbered and lettered streets, over the past two centuries, things have shaken out to be rather interesting, nomenclature-wise. As always, the exceptions prove…

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    SEARS ROEBUCK, Flatbush

    by Kevin Walsh January 8, 2019
    by Kevin Walsh January 8, 2019 12 comments

    At Beverly and Bedford Avenues in Flatbush is this huge Art Moderne monolith that looks like something straight out of the 1936 movie Things to Come (the third section, where…

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    CORTELYOU ROAD STATION, Flatbush

    by Kevin Walsh June 8, 2018
    by Kevin Walsh June 8, 2018 7 comments

    Like much of the subways the BMT Brighton Line, which runs generally between East 15th and 16th Streets from Prospect Park south to Coney Island, has a complicated history. It…

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    PARKSIDE PLACE, Flatbush

    by Kevin Walsh May 14, 2018
    by Kevin Walsh May 14, 2018 7 comments

    I don’t know about you, but when I see the term “Private Street,” I think of Riverdale, the Bronx.  I always thought that Riverdale has the most private streets, but…

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    LLOYD STREET, Flatbush

    by Kevin Walsh December 14, 2017
    by Kevin Walsh December 14, 2017 6 comments

    Before 1894, Flatbush in Kings County was a separate town on its own, with a separate government, police department, street layout, etc. The town was annexed by the City of…

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    PARKSIDE AVENUE STATION, Flatbush

    by Kevin Walsh December 12, 2017
    by Kevin Walsh December 12, 2017 1 comment

    Some NYC subway stations have small buildings used as entrances, especially where the subway lines run in an “open cut” or a roofless tunnel. Of course on the original Interborough…

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    VAN NUYSE HOUSE, Flatbush

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

    Southeast Brooklyn still has a number of colonial-era houses constructed by Dutch and English settlers from the mid-18th to early 19th Centuries. Among them are the Pieter Claesen Wyckoff House…

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