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    LADY MOODY HOUSE, Gravesend

    by Kevin Walsh November 17, 2022
    by Kevin Walsh November 17, 2022 4 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 11 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 5 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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  • Forgotten Slices

    AVENUE U IN BRIEF

    by Kevin Walsh June 8, 2021
    by Kevin Walsh June 8, 2021 22 comments

    I was slouching around Gravesend for a couple of hours the first day of June, after taking the D train in from Manhattan. I was going to stay longer but…

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  • EatsOne Shots

    L&B SPUMONI GARDENS, Gravesend

    by Kevin Walsh January 1, 2021
    by Kevin Walsh January 1, 2021 3 comments

    I know, this is hardly Forgotten, but complainers and purists, bear with me today. In June 2019, Forgotten New York’s tour of Gravesend was the best-attended of the year with…

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  • One ShotsSubways & Trains

    BRIGHTON LINE, 1905

    by Kevin Walsh May 12, 2020
    by Kevin Walsh May 12, 2020 7 comments

    I was fascinated by a couple of photos I saw at the NYC Transit Museum when I visited it in January of the Brighton Line, a steam rail line that…

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  • One Shots

    A GRAVESEND MYSTERY

    by Kevin Walsh October 4, 2019
    by Kevin Walsh October 4, 2019 1 comment

    I grew up in Bay Ridge, in which 86th Street, along with 3rd and 5th Avenues, was the main shopping drag. To get to Shore Road, we took the B16…

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