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    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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    STATION AND DEPOT ROADS, Flushing

    by Kevin Walsh February 21, 2021
    by Kevin Walsh February 21, 2021 9 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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    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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    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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    PECK AVENUE, Queens

    by Kevin Walsh August 16, 2020
    by Kevin Walsh August 16, 2020 7 comments

    As Forgotten New York readers know I’m fascinated by street layouts. In Queens, the borough in which I live, there are hundreds of numbered streets both east-west and north-south that…

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  • One ShotsSubways & Trains

    FLUSHING RAILROAD REMNANT

    by Kevin Walsh July 8, 2020
    by Kevin Walsh July 8, 2020 0 comment

    Why is there a wrought-iron rendering of a locomotive on the Kissena Park fence at KIssena Boulevard and Rose Avenue? There’s a reason it’s there. A lengthy gash of green…

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    FRANCONIA SURPRISE

    by Kevin Walsh June 22, 2020
    by Kevin Walsh June 22, 2020 1 comment

    A week ago in 2020, I did a Brooklyn A to Z page about southern Brooklyn avenues named for letters of the alphabet, Avenue A to Z. There are a…

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  • One Shots

    WHITE TRAIN, 1982

    by Kevin Walsh May 22, 2020
    by Kevin Walsh May 22, 2020 17 comments

    Graffiti-scrawled subway cars reached their peak in 1982, a year in which the MTA’s subway operations reached their nadir, with older cars from previous decades broke down regularly and track…

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  • One ShotsSubways & Trains

    ROOSEVELT AVENUE 1962

    by Kevin Walsh January 2, 2020
    by Kevin Walsh January 2, 2020 12 comments

    Here’s an interesting tableau from 1962 on the south side of Roosevelt Avenue just east of Main Street in Flushing. It was, then as now, the terminal of the IRT…

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    FREE SYNAGOGUE OF FLUSHING

    by Kevin Walsh December 10, 2019
    by Kevin Walsh December 10, 2019 6 comments

    The pace of change in Flushing, Queens has only accelerated in the past 30 years, as its venerable Victorian age buildings have mostly been razed. But concentrated at Kissena Boulevard…

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  • One ShotsSignsStreet Lamps

    CROCHERON AVENUE STOPLIGHT, 1993

    by Kevin Walsh July 14, 2019
    by Kevin Walsh July 14, 2019 4 comments

    This is The Dog Ate My Homework edition of Forgotten New York. I had a page about 80% written about my adventures in Highland Park and Ridgewood Reservoir, but inexplicably,…

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  • One ShotsSigns

    THIS WAY TO THROGS NECK

    by Kevin Walsh July 10, 2019
    by Kevin Walsh July 10, 2019 6 comments

    I hadn’t noticed this faux arrowhead Triborough Bridge and Tunnel Authority sign at Sanford Avenue and 162nd Street in Flushing, pointing the way to Throgs Neck. Traffic headed there would…

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