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    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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  • One Shots

    GARDEN OF MEDITATION, Flushing Meadows

    by Kevin Walsh May 23, 2018
    by Kevin Walsh May 23, 2018 2 comments

    By SERGEY KADINSKY Forgotten NY correspondent In the southeastern corner of the central core of Flushing Meadows-Corona Park is a set of mounds with footstones citing biblical verses under the…

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  • One Shots

    COLUMN OF JERASH, Flushing Meadows-Corona Park

    by Kevin Walsh October 6, 2017
    by Kevin Walsh October 6, 2017 6 comments

    It might be surprising to know that most of the world’s countries did not have exhibits at the ’64-65 World’s Fair in Flushing Meadows. Not because of any particular animus or…

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  • One Shots

    WORLD’S FAIR MONORAIL

    by Kevin Walsh March 16, 2017
    by Kevin Walsh March 16, 2017 18 comments

    I really wish the old man had gotten a photo of the World’s Fair 1964-1965 monorail with some actual cars in the picture, but I’m working with what I have…

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  • One ShotsSubways & Trains

    EMD GP38-2, Long Island Rail Road

    by Kevin Walsh September 22, 2016
    by Kevin Walsh September 22, 2016 0 comment

    Engine #260 idles at the Shea Stadium platform on a 1999 fantrip.  The EMD GP38-2 is a four-axle diesel-electric locomotive of the road switcher type built by General Motors, Electro-Motive…

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  • One ShotsSubways & Trains

    ALCO #614, LIRR

    by Kevin Walsh September 20, 2016
    by Kevin Walsh September 20, 2016 0 comment

    An ALCO “power car” #614 idles at the Shea Stadium Long Island Rail Road platform in September 1999, a place it rarely visited, as the Port Washington Branch on which the station…

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  • One ShotsSubways & Trains

    SHEA STADIUM LIRR PLATFORM

    by Kevin Walsh September 19, 2016
    by Kevin Walsh September 19, 2016 0 comment

    I recently came across some snaps taken during the Dawn of Forgotten New York in 1999 — in particular, from a fan trip from September 1999 employing LIRR MP-72 cars, which…

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