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    BOOTH MEMORIAL AVENUE, FRESH MEADOWS

    by Kevin Walsh May 7, 2023
    by Kevin Walsh May 7, 2023 14 comments

    TODAY I want to talk about a road running from southern Flushing east to Fresh Meadows, that bears the name of a hospital that doesn’t exist anymore … and was…

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  • One Shots

    SOURCE OF GREENPOINT AVENUE

    by Kevin Walsh April 25, 2023
    by Kevin Walsh April 25, 2023 9 comments

    I may do a new series in Forgotten New York pointing out the humble beginnings of major, well-known NYC streets. Today, I’m showing you the east end of the combined…

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  • Subways & Trains

    PLATFORM LIGHTING, Corona-Flushing

    by Kevin Walsh March 20, 2023
    by Kevin Walsh March 20, 2023 5 comments

    An aspect of subways and railroads in New York City that has never gotten deserved scrutiny is the wide variety of platform lighting found around town both in the subways…

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  • One Shots

    KISSENA BOULEVARD 1947

    by Kevin Walsh December 11, 2022
    by Kevin Walsh December 11, 2022 6 comments

    UNTIL mid-century, mid-Queens was still rather sparsely settled and was a place of wide open spaces. This photo from 1947 shows Kissena Boulevard looking south from Rose Avenue at the…

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  • One Shots

    RACHEL CARSON PLAYGROUND, Flushing

    by Kevin Walsh July 27, 2022
    by Kevin Walsh July 27, 2022 3 comments

    I found it a bit ironic that this shot of a portion of Rachel Carson Playground at Colden Street and Geranium Avenue at Kissena Corridor Park features so much pavement…

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    FLUSHING DEVELOPMENT QUESTION

    by Kevin Walsh September 29, 2021
    by Kevin Walsh September 29, 2021 1 comment

    I am stumped more often than I’d like to be. There was a real estate development on the east side of Auburndale Lane opposite Flushing Cemetery south of 46th Avenue…

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  • One ShotsStreet Lamps

    ALARM LAMP, Flushing

    by Kevin Walsh May 17, 2021
    by Kevin Walsh May 17, 2021 3 comments

    I’ve discussed these fire alarm indicator lamps before — Forgotten NY has been around now for 22 years as of 2021 — but I never get tired of featuring them,…

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  • Subways & Trains

    METS-WILLETS POINT STATION

    by Kevin Walsh April 4, 2021
    by Kevin Walsh April 4, 2021 17 comments

    2020 marked the first year I hadn’t attended any Mets games at Citifield or Shea Stadium in many years, to my knowledge, but there were just 30 games all year,…

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  • Forgotten Slices

    VOELKER-ORTH MUSEUM, Flushing

    by Kevin Walsh February 25, 2021
    by Kevin Walsh February 25, 2021 3 comments

    A Victorian-era residence, the kind that have long been displaced in Flushing by boring, monolithic apartments and blond brick two-family homes (you know the type…concrete driveways and prominent water meters)…

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  • Roads

    STATION AND DEPOT ROADS, Flushing

    by Kevin Walsh February 21, 2021
    by Kevin Walsh February 21, 2021 8 comments

    On a whim, I decided to walk the entire lengths of two Flushing roads for which I have always had some fascination, Station and Depot Roads in Flushing and Auburndale.…

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  • One Shots

    TOM SEAVER WAY

    by Kevin Walsh September 7, 2020
    by Kevin Walsh September 7, 2020 8 comments

    With your indulgence, I’m going to break format to talk about Tom Seaver, one of my childhood icons (when I was a kid, I was lucky to have three: Seaver,…

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  • Forgotten Slices

    BOWNE FAMILY

    by Kevin Walsh August 26, 2020
    by Kevin Walsh August 26, 2020 3 comments

    Bowne House, on Bowne Street north of 38th Avenue in Flushing, Queens, was built in 1661 by English settler John Bowne and, unlike many other colonial houses from the 17th…

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