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  • One ShotsRoads

    HOLLIS COURT BOULEVARD, Queens

    by Kevin Walsh November 4, 2020
    by Kevin Walsh November 4, 2020 5 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 5 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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  • One Shots

    WEEKS LANE, Fresh Meadows

    by Kevin Walsh August 22, 2018
    by Kevin Walsh August 22, 2018 3 comments

    I have written about Weeks Lane before. It meanders through the modern grid on the Fresh Meadows-Bayside border northeast from Hollis Court Boulevard and 53rd Avenue northeast to 47th Avenue…

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  • Walks

    JAMAICA ESTATES to LITTLE NECK, Part 2

    by Kevin Walsh November 5, 2017
    by Kevin Walsh November 5, 2017 12 comments

    Continued from Part 1 Today my idea was to walk from Jamaica Estates, one of two ritzy (or mostly ritzy, in comparison to where I’ve lived) areas in northern Jamaica,…

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  • MAP ROOMOne Shots

    FRESH MEADOWS 1852

    by Kevin Walsh November 2, 2017
    by Kevin Walsh November 2, 2017 0 comment

    One again, it’s time to go back…way back..back into time with my western Queens map published in 1852. This is the earliest map of the area in my possession. It’s…

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  • One ShotsSigns

    MORE QUEENS WHITE, Fresh Meadows

    by Kevin Walsh April 4, 2015
    by Kevin Walsh April 4, 2015 0 comment

    Not only is this classic 1964 blue-on-white Queens street sign gone at the traffic triangle at 58th Avenue, Booth Memorial Avenue, Utopia Parkway and 183rd Street, the small NYC Parks…

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  • CemeteriesOne Shots

    BRINCKERHOFF CEMETERY, Fresh Meadows

    by Kevin Walsh January 10, 2013
    by Kevin Walsh January 10, 2013 20 comments

    On 182nd Street just north of 73rd Avenue you will see what appears to be a weedy, empty lot, with ivy and ancient trees. This, though, is the cemetery of…

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  • AlleysForgotten Slices

    WEEKS LANE

    by Kevin Walsh December 31, 2012
    by Kevin Walsh December 31, 2012 12 comments

    Forgotten New York has many parents. I have said before that the kernel may have been planted in 1962, when the Department of Traffic tore down all the castiron lampposts…

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  • One ShotsSigns

    SIGNS AND STRIPES

    by Kevin Walsh December 6, 2012
    by Kevin Walsh December 6, 2012 9 comments

    In the early 20th Century, Queens featured hundreds of striped poles featuring directional signs to different neighborhoods and even out-of-borough locations.  This one, photographed in 1931, pointed to Flushing, Brooklyn,…

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  • Street Scenes

    KISSENA PARK CORRIDOR

    by Kevin Walsh July 7, 2012
    by Kevin Walsh July 7, 2012 21 comments

    After spending my first 35 years in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn, I moved to Queens in 1993, in that gray area on the borders of Flushing, Auburndale and Fresh Meadows. My…

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