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    RUSSELL SAGE IN Queens

    by Kevin Walsh December 30, 2022
    by Kevin Walsh December 30, 2022 7 comments

    THE name Russell Sage pops up in two disparate areas in Queens that otherwise have nothing to do with the other. The doyenne of Far Rockaway churches is the Russell…

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  • RoadsWalks

    YELLOWSTONE, QUEENS

    by Kevin Walsh December 19, 2021
    by Kevin Walsh December 19, 2021 9 comments

    I am old. Impossibly old. Older than you imagine. Older than you can imagine. And I have returned to work fulltime, with Marquis Who’s Who, albeit via my home computer.…

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  • One Shots

    YELLOWSTONE MONDRIAN

    by Kevin Walsh December 16, 2021
    by Kevin Walsh December 16, 2021 5 comments

    PERHAPS you don’t immediately know the name Piet Mondrian, but you might more readily know his style: unevenly spaced boxes, some filled with color, some without. They have been used…

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  • MAP ROOMRoads

    APEX AND AERO, Forest Hills

    by Kevin Walsh April 15, 2021
    by Kevin Walsh April 15, 2021 4 comments

    As many Forgotten NY fans know, I’m attracted to the odd roads that defy the grid, because often they point the way to preexisting roads that existed in the past.…

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  • One Shots

    WOMRATH’S, Forest Hills

    by Kevin Walsh February 4, 2021
    by Kevin Walsh February 4, 2021 10 comments

    From the NYC Municipal Archives, here’s a look at 71-66 Austin Street in Forest Hills which then housed a Womrath’s library. Since I remember Womrath’s in Bay Ridge as a…

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    HOT BIALYS, Forest Hills

    by Kevin Walsh December 22, 2020
    by Kevin Walsh December 22, 2020 23 comments

    I was furtively wandering down Queens Boulevard on Tuesday, occasionally pausing to wipe off my glasses, as the Illness Mask fogs up glasses as hot breath is redirected onto them.…

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  • Forgotten Slices

    WHO IS THAT GUY? CPT. GERALD MACDONALD

    by Kevin Walsh September 16, 2020
    by Kevin Walsh September 16, 2020 1 comment

    I was meeting my friend Vicki M. for lunch in Forest Hills and had exited the subway at the back end of the 71st/Continental Avenue station when I found myself…

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  • One Shots

    ARCHIE BUNKER’S PLACE, Glendale

    by Kevin Walsh July 30, 2020
    by Kevin Walsh July 30, 2020 10 comments

    Several New York City neighborhoods come together in the triangle of territory opposite St. John’s Cemetery formed by Cooper Avenue, Metropolitan Avenue, and Woodhaven Boulevard. I have to pick one,…

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  • Neighborhoods

    LITTLE NECK TO FOREST HILLS, PART 2

    by Kevin Walsh February 23, 2020
    by Kevin Walsh February 23, 2020 8 comments

    Continued from Part 1 To amuse myself before the football games came on, I decided to walk from my home in Little Neck all the way to 71st/Continental Avenue in…

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  • One ShotsSignsStreet Lamps

    “OLIVE” POST-TOP STOPLIGHTS, 1999

    by Kevin Walsh March 12, 2019
    by Kevin Walsh March 12, 2019 2 comments

    March 2019 marks Forgotten New York’s 20th anniversary. To mark the occasion, I’ve re-scanned about 150 key images from the early days of FNY from 35MM prints. In the early…

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  • One ShotsSigns

    FOREST HILLS OLIVE

    by Kevin Walsh November 9, 2017
    by Kevin Walsh November 9, 2017 5 comments

    This is obviously not a recent photo; it’s from January 2009, after the stoplights had been removed from this Olive post at 110th Street and 69th Road in Forest Hills. Traffic…

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  • One Shots

    MAILBOX POST, Forest Hills

    by Kevin Walsh September 12, 2017
    by Kevin Walsh September 12, 2017 3 comments

    I got nothin’ today…or I wouldn’t except for this photo submitted by Forest Hiller Vicki Metzger (who is standing right next to one on this FNY page), showing an ordinary…

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