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  • MAP ROOM

    GRAVESEND 1868

    by Kevin Walsh March 21, 2024
    by Kevin Walsh March 21, 2024 9 comments

    ONE of my favorite pastimes is to pore over old maps, especially of New York City, and note what is still there and what has disappeared. In the mid-19th Century,…

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  • One Shots

    BOYNTON PLACE, GRAVESEND

    by Kevin Walsh September 26, 2023
    by Kevin Walsh September 26, 2023 3 comments

    HIDDEN histories abound in New York City’s street names. In Gravesend, a one-block street, Boynton Place, connects West 7th Street and Avenue X between 86th Street and the MTA’s Coney…

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  • Roads

    GRAVESEND NECK ROAD

    by Kevin Walsh July 17, 2023
    by Kevin Walsh July 17, 2023 8 comments

    GRAVESEND Neck Road was once a major east-west artery in Gravesend and Sheepshead Bay in the days of carts and wagons. “Neck Road” as it’s called by locals and the MTA…

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  • One Shots

    DEL RIO DINER, GRAVESEND 2016

    by Kevin Walsh May 18, 2023
    by Kevin Walsh May 18, 2023 17 comments

    In July 2016 I made my way to the Del Rio Diner, Kings Highway and West 12th Street, having heard of its impending closure. NYC’s classic diners have been shutting…

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  • One Shots

    LADY MOODY HOUSE, Gravesend

    by Kevin Walsh November 17, 2022
    by Kevin Walsh November 17, 2022 5 comments

    In 1640, Dutch provincial governor William Kieft prosecuted a war upon the indigenous Native Americans that resulted in more than 1,000 Indian fatalities in Manhattan and western Long Island. It was…

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  • Signs

    1950s STREET SIGN, Gravesend

    by Kevin Walsh November 16, 2022
    by Kevin Walsh November 16, 2022 4 comments

    THE owners of a house at Van Sicklen Street and Corso Court, a private cul de sac south of Gravesend Neck Road in the heart of Gravesend, have preserved this…

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  • Forgotten Slices

    VAN SIC(K)LENS OF KINGS COUNTY

    by Kevin Walsh October 15, 2022
    by Kevin Walsh October 15, 2022 13 comments

    THE Van Siclens, who spelt their name in two ways as was common in the colonial era before spellings were codified, settled in western Long Island in the mid-17th Century…

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  • One Shots

    IN JEOPARDY: RYDER-VAN CLEEF HOUSE, Gravesend

    by Kevin Walsh October 5, 2022
    by Kevin Walsh October 5, 2022 5 comments

    RYDER-Van Cleef House, constructed in 1840 by Lawrence Ryder, stood at 26 Village Road north before it was moved to #38 in 1930. A Ryder daughter married a Van Cleef,…

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  • Walks

    GRAVESEND TO BENSONHURST

    by Kevin Walsh August 7, 2022
    by Kevin Walsh August 7, 2022 8 comments

    As I am writing this in early August 2022 we’re in the midst of a long slog of hot, humid weather which is increasingly the trend in NYC as cool…

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  • One Shots

    THAT THING ON AVENUE U

    by Kevin Walsh July 5, 2022
    by Kevin Walsh July 5, 2022 11 comments

    I’m informed by Gravesend historian Joseph Ditta that this large mystery object on the west side of Ocean Parkway and Avenue U in Gravesend has finally been removed by the…

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  • One Shots

    SAMUEL HUBBARD HOUSE, Gravesend

    by Kevin Walsh June 28, 2022
    by Kevin Walsh June 28, 2022 1 comment

    THIS is the Samuel Hubbard House, which may now justifiably be called the John Antonides House, at #2138 McDonald Avenue north of Avenue T. The right side of the house…

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  • One Shots

    KEN SIEGELMAN WAY, Gravesend

    by Kevin Walsh May 2, 2022
    by Kevin Walsh May 2, 2022 4 comments

    MORE than most other Brooklyn neighborhoods, Gravesend features short, one block streets known as Courts and Places. While a couple of them are “legacy roads” that existed in the colonial…

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