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    FILLMORE’S OF FLUSHING

    by Kevin Walsh April 23, 2024
    by Kevin Walsh April 23, 2024 8 comments

    IT’S been a few years (April 2021) since I have been in one of my favorite joints, Millard Fillmore’s on 65th Avenue and 166th Street near Queens College. It’s a…

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    SLOANE RANGER, LENOX HILL

    by Kevin Walsh October 17, 2023
    by Kevin Walsh October 17, 2023 5 comments

    WHAT could this handsome carriage house at #159 East 69th Street between Lexington and 3rd Avenue have to do with the former Serval Zipper factory, now a U-Haul distributorship on…

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    OSCAR DELI, AUBURNDALE

    by Kevin Walsh August 11, 2023
    by Kevin Walsh August 11, 2023 15 comments

    I resided in eastern Flushing, or western Auburndale, depending where you draw the border, between 1993 and 2007 at 43rd Avenue and 159th Street. It was a 4th floor apartment…

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    GANESH TEMPLE, FLUSHING

    by Kevin Walsh June 8, 2023
    by Kevin Walsh June 8, 2023 6 comments

    THE Ganesh Temple of the Hindu Temple Society of North America on Bowne Street just north of Holly was opened on July 4, 1977. As the first Hindu Temple in…

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  • Roads

    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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    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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    KISSENA BOULEVARD 1947

    by Kevin Walsh December 11, 2022
    by Kevin Walsh December 11, 2022 7 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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    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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    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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