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  • Signs

    FUN WITH SIGNS

    by Kevin Walsh July 22, 2024
    by Kevin Walsh July 22, 2024 9 comments

    CRAZED from the unrelenting July heat and humidity, I was scuttling east on the Long Island Expressway south service road recently when I spotted the anomaly seen above. It’s a…

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  • Walks

    KISSENA PARK CORRIDOR 2024

    by Kevin Walsh June 30, 2024
    by Kevin Walsh June 30, 2024 11 comments

    IT was time to “call an audible” as they say in football, when the quarterback decides to change the play at scrimmage when the defense is lined up to defend…

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  • One Shots

    MILLARD FILLMORE’S, FRESH MEADOWS

    by Kevin Walsh October 20, 2023
    by Kevin Walsh October 20, 2023 19 comments

    THIS is not a paid commercial of any kind, but it’s been a couple of years since I have been in one of my favorite joints, Millard Fillmore’s on 65th…

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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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  • Signs

    FRESH MEADOWS SIGNS

    by Kevin Walsh January 9, 2023
    by Kevin Walsh January 9, 2023 15 comments

    THE central Queens neighborhood Fresh Meadows, known best for the eponymously-named extensive residential community centered at 188th Street and the Long Island Expressway that was constructed there between 1946 and 1949…

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  • Trolleys

    FRESH MEADOWS 1937

    by Kevin Walsh December 31, 2022
    by Kevin Walsh December 31, 2022 11 comments

    CLOSING out 2022 (how long can FNY go on?) In the late 19th and early 20th Century, a trolley line connected Flushing and Jamaica, running originally through the farms and…

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  • One Shots

    KLEIN FARMHOUSE, Fresh Meadows

    by Kevin Walsh December 10, 2022
    by Kevin Walsh December 10, 2022 4 comments

    THE Klein Farm, 73rd Avenue and 195th Street, sold produce for years in a roadside stand until 2003, when the family sold it to a realtor. The farm had been in…

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  • One Shots

    ST. FRANCIS PREP, Fresh Meadows

    by Kevin Walsh May 6, 2021
    by Kevin Walsh May 6, 2021 13 comments

    Back in 2015 I was wandering around Cunningham Park in Fresh Meadows and somehow found my way onto the dirt bike trail. Understand, that trail wasn’t built as a way…

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  • One ShotsRoads

    HOLLIS COURT BOULEVARD, Queens

    by Kevin Walsh November 4, 2020
    by Kevin Walsh November 4, 2020 6 comments

    Quite a bit of Queens real estate bears the name Hollis — the neighborhoods Hollis, Holliswood, Hollis Park Gardens and Hollis Hills, the LIRR Hollis station, Hollis Avenue, Hollis Hills Terrace…

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  • Roads

    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 ShotsTrolleys

    WILD IN THE COUNTRY, Fresh Meadows

    by Kevin Walsh August 6, 2020
    by Kevin Walsh August 6, 2020 14 comments

    Where can this Queens scene be, which looks to be way out in the countryside with a few scattered houses near the horizon and a single railroad track in the…

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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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