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    PONDS OF EASTERN QUEENS Part 2

    by Kevin Walsh May 1, 2011
    by Kevin Walsh May 1, 2011 13 comments

    CONTINUED FROM PART 1 Continuing south on Cross Island Parkway, the roadway briefly sneaks into Nassau County, and then straightens south of Belmont Racetrack, neatly delineating the Queens-Nassau border. The…

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    PONDS OF EASTERN QUEENS Part 1

    by Kevin Walsh May 1, 2011
    by Kevin Walsh May 1, 2011 14 comments

    BY SERGEY KADINSKY Forgotten NY contributor Queens is a borough containing many streams. It has numerous creeks, basins, inlets, bays, and rivers. Deeper inland are a few ponds, remnants of…

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    MAIN STREET, Flushing

    by Kevin Walsh October 17, 2010
    by Kevin Walsh October 17, 2010 0 comment

    As I had written on an early Forgotten New York page in 2000, NYC has a Main Street in all five boroughs: Manhattan (Roosevelt Island), Brooklyn (DUMBO), The Bronx (Edgewater…

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  • Forgotten Slices

    ST. GEORGE STEEPLE blown down by tornado

    by Kevin Walsh September 22, 2010
    by Kevin Walsh September 22, 2010 3 comments

    In the evening of September 16, 2010, a large storm front swept through the general NYC area with high winds and heavy rain and the storm was strong enough to produce two…

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  • Roads

    FRESH MEADOW LANE, Queens

    by Kevin Walsh August 29, 2010
    by Kevin Walsh August 29, 2010 1 comment

    I resided in fab Flushing between 1993 and 2007, and during that time both on foot and by bike, familiarized myself with the older routes through the area including the maze…

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  • Roads

    ROCKY HILL ROAD, Queens, Part 2

    by Kevin Walsh July 12, 2010
    by Kevin Walsh July 12, 2010 3 comments

    CONTINUED FROM PART 1   The Franny Lew   As the roadbed of 47th Avenue, Rocky Hill Road crosses Francis Lewis Boulevard, the lengthiest road contained completely in Queens, stretching generally…

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  • NeighborhoodsStreet Scenes

    FLUSHING FROM A-R. Avenues with plant names in Queens

    by Kevin Walsh December 6, 2009
    by Kevin Walsh December 6, 2009 0 comment

    In a borough that ruthlessly changed most of its street names to numbers beginning in the 1910s (beginning in Woodhaven, actually) there are, interestingly, still pockets of streets named in…

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  • NeighborhoodsStreet Scenes

    LINDEN PLACE, Flushing

    by Kevin Walsh July 27, 2009
    by Kevin Walsh July 27, 2009 0 comment

    The interesting thing is, Linden Place begins extraordinarily promisingly — as you begin at Northern Boulevard, you find yourself at several centuries-old landmarks that have somehow, somehow survived in Flushing…

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  • Forgotten Slices

    SANFORD AVENUE, Flushing

    by Kevin Walsh July 13, 2009
    by Kevin Walsh July 13, 2009 5 comments

    Having moved to Flushing in 1993 I have witnessed, to my continuing disgust, the demolition of what was formerly Flushing’s great east-west residential thoroughfare, Sanford Avenue; year by year, more and…

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  • NeighborhoodsRoadsStreet ScenesWalks

    32nd AVENUE in Flushing

    by Kevin Walsh April 12, 2009
    by Kevin Walsh April 12, 2009 0 comment

    It was a day as bright and crystal clear as April gets; I had returned home from taking a season ticket holders’ tour of the Mets’ brand-new Citifield. Getting back…

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  • Forgotten Slices

    STUDLEY TRIANGLE

    by Kevin Walsh April 9, 2009
    by Kevin Walsh April 9, 2009 9 comments

    If you’ve never been to the Broadway-Flushing section of Queens, it’s worth a visit — it’s home to some of Queens’ finest architecture, having been part of the Rickert-Finley real estate…

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  • Street Scenes

    FLUSHING RIVER, Queens

    by Kevin Walsh November 23, 2008
    by Kevin Walsh November 23, 2008 0 comment

    BY SERGEY KADINSKY Forgotten NY contributor               The origin of the Flushing River predates the Pleistocene Ice Age, when the Hudson River flowed into…

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