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    WHITESTONE LANES

    by Kevin Walsh March 4, 2025
    by Kevin Walsh March 4, 2025 9 comments

    FORGIVE the relatively poor angle on this shot of Whitestone Lanes, at Whitestone Expressway and Linden Place, technically in Flushing. (It actually looks better by night than by day.) I…

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  • Forgotten Slices

    TAYSTEE IN FLUSHING

    by Kevin Walsh January 11, 2025
    by Kevin Walsh January 11, 2025 9 comments

    SOME years ago, Kevin Walsh visited Haight Street in Flushing, comparing the sights of this obscure two-block road in an industrial corner of the neighborhood, with the scenic Haight Street…

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  • One Shots

    HOWARD JOHNSON, FLUSHING

    by Kevin Walsh September 25, 2024
    by Kevin Walsh September 25, 2024 19 comments

    WHEN I lived in eastern Flushing from 1993-2007, I didn’t recognize this structure on the Flushing-Auburndale border at Northern Boulevard and 165th Street for the artifact it was. At the…

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  • Signs

    A FLUSHING MYSTERY

    by Kevin Walsh August 19, 2024
    by Kevin Walsh August 19, 2024 9 comments

    I have been paying more attention to the shingle signs that are found outside doctors’ offices, because some of them are old indeed and have been in place for a…

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  • One Shots

    STATION ROAD, FLUSHING

    by Kevin Walsh August 2, 2024
    by Kevin Walsh August 2, 2024 7 comments

    TIRED of the unrelenting dead canine humidity of NYC summer? It’s humid and getting humider, year after year. Here’s a winter 2021 view of Station Road along the Long Island…

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    FEITSEN’S DRUGS, FLUSHING

    by Kevin Walsh July 1, 2024
    by Kevin Walsh July 1, 2024 7 comments

    HERE’S a 1930s look at Feitsen’s Drug Store in the 1930s, on 45th Avenue and 147th Street. Out of the picture across the street are Parsons Boulevard and Flushing Hospital…

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  • Walks

    KISSENA PARK CORRIDOR 2024

    by Kevin Walsh June 30, 2024
    by Kevin Walsh June 30, 2024 11 comments

    IT was time to “call an audible” as they say in football, when the quarterback decides to change the play at scrimmage when the defense is lined up to defend…

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  • One Shots

    REX COLE SHOWROOM, FLUSHING

    by Kevin Walsh June 6, 2024
    by Kevin Walsh June 6, 2024 0 comment

    REX Cole (1887-1967) was originally a lamp manufacturer, then became associated with General Electric in the 1920s and designed white enamel Monitor Top refrigerators. Famed architect Raymond Hood designed a series…

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  • Street Lamps

    VINTAGE M400s, FLUSHING

    by Kevin Walsh June 5, 2024
    by Kevin Walsh June 5, 2024 3 comments

    I was amazed to see this pair of vintage General Electric M400 lamps, on a Twin post in the parking lot of the GW Supermarket in Northern Boulevard just east…

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  • Signs

    WALK NYC SIGNS, FLUSHING

    by Kevin Walsh June 4, 2024
    by Kevin Walsh June 4, 2024 4 comments

    MOST likely a testament to my being out of action for several months from mid 2022-late 2023, I had not encountered this genre of signage designed to point out highlights…

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  • Street Scenes

    FLUSHING’S GREATEST HITS, PART TWO

    by Kevin Walsh June 2, 2024
    by Kevin Walsh June 2, 2024 7 comments

    Continued from Part One WITH this page, I am proposing/inaugurating a new Forgotten NY series, Greatest Hits, that will be appearing periodically, much like the series began earlier in 2024, One…

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  • Street Scenes

    FLUSHING’S GREATEST HITS, PART ONE

    by Kevin Walsh May 5, 2024
    by Kevin Walsh May 5, 2024 9 comments

    WITH this page, I am proposing/inaugurating a new Forgotten NY series, Greatest Hits, that will be appearing periodically, much like the series began earlier in 2024, One and Done, concerning…

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