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    THE OTHER AVENUE OF THE AMERICAS

    by Kevin Walsh May 21, 2025
    by Kevin Walsh May 21, 2025 0 comment

    THE 1939-40 World’s Fair may have been more storied and better-remembered (now by few alive today), but the 1964-65 Fair had its whiz-bang moments as well…and I was there, eating…

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  • Signs

    PLAYGROUND RETIREES

    by Kevin Walsh January 8, 2025
    by Kevin Walsh January 8, 2025 5 comments

    DEEP in Flushing Meadows-Corona Park, along a path between Dinkins Circle and the Unisphere, is NYC Parks’ equivalent of the Island of Misfit Toys from TV’s “Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer.”…

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  • One Shots

    FATE OF THE FAIR MOSAICS

    by Kevin Walsh October 23, 2024
    by Kevin Walsh October 23, 2024 10 comments

    A recent jaunt took me into Flushing Meadows-Corona Park, where I noticed that the set of pavement mosaics installed honoring the first and second Fairs were in worse shape than…

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  • Walks

    FLUSHING MEADOWS 2024

    by Kevin Walsh September 29, 2024
    by Kevin Walsh September 29, 2024 8 comments

    In September 2024 I had to take shorter walks because a chronic sore back condition arose, and my journeys totaled 4 miles or less. Thus things were near “perfect” for…

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  • One Shots

    FAIR AND 60

    by Kevin Walsh May 3, 2024
    by Kevin Walsh May 3, 2024 4 comments

    No, the Unisphere in Flushing Meadows-Corona Park is hardly “forgotten,” but at heart Forgotten NY is an infrastructure website and I thought I’d mention it on the 60th anniversary of…

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  • NeighborhoodsWalks

    GLENDALE-FOREST HILLS, PART TWO

    by Kevin Walsh February 4, 2024
    by Kevin Walsh February 4, 2024 4 comments

    CONTINUED FROM PART ONE HEY, I just had to get out of the house, and Saturday, January 27, 2024 was the only day to do it. I work from home…

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  • Forgotten Slices

    WHO IS THAT GUY? LL COOL J

    by Kevin Walsh August 10, 2022
    by Kevin Walsh August 10, 2022 3 comments

    At David Dinkins Circle, just down the entrance ramp to Flushing Meadows-Corona Park south of the LIRR station, throughout most of 2022 you’ll see a bronze bust of R&B and…

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  • One Shots

    DAVID’S GARDEN, Flushing Meadows

    by Kevin Walsh August 9, 2022
    by Kevin Walsh August 9, 2022 5 comments

    In the shadow of the imposing Philip Johnson New York State Pavilion Towers sits a quiet verdant oasis called David’s Garden, a tribute to longtime Queens Tribune editor David Oats, who…

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  • Subways & Trains

    WORLD’S FAIR LINE, 1939-1940

    by Kevin Walsh April 30, 2022
    by Kevin Walsh April 30, 2022 6 comments

    As I have lamented in Forgotten New York before, New York City is much better at eliminating transit lines than building them; during my lifetime, elevateds such as Third Avenue…

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  • One Shots

    AVIARY, Flushing Meadows

    by Kevin Walsh August 5, 2021
    by Kevin Walsh August 5, 2021 4 comments

    YET another remnant of the 1964-1965 World’s Fair in Flushing Meadows-Corona Park that is seemingly hidden in plain sight can be found on a park path north of Terrace on…

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  • One ShotsSigns

    FLUSHING MEADOWS SIGNAGE

    by Kevin Walsh November 28, 2018
    by Kevin Walsh November 28, 2018 1 comment

    A bit short on time today, so I thought I would do a short item on the unique Flushing Meadows-Corona Park signage, which uses different fonts than other fonts used…

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  • One Shots

    FORMS IN TRANSIT, Flushing Meadows

    by Kevin Walsh May 24, 2018
    by Kevin Walsh May 24, 2018 2 comments

    I couldn’t get to everything on last week’s World’s Fair Remnants tour, so here’s one item we overlooked. Located on a rather out-of-the-way path between the Hall of Science and…

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