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  • MAP ROOM

    HUNTERS POINT MAP

    by Kevin Walsh April 17, 2025
    by Kevin Walsh April 17, 2025 1 comment

    DOMINIE’S Hoek (Hook), originally the western end of the town of Newtown, was originally settled when a tract of land was awarded to Everard Bogardus, a Dutch Reformed minister (dominie),…

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  • Walks

    CRESCENT STREET LONG ISLAND CITY

    by Kevin Walsh December 22, 2024
    by Kevin Walsh December 22, 2024 7 comments

    After 4 out of 5 weekends when I handed the reins over to Sergey Kadinsky, I’m returning to weekend longform this week and I have a large backlog to get…

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  • Forgotten SlicesNeighborhoods

    MALT DRIVE, HUNTERS POINT

    by Kevin Walsh December 2, 2024
    by Kevin Walsh December 2, 2024 1 comment

    By SERGEY KADINSKYForgotten NY correspondent In the fall of 2024, a new road and waterfront park opened in Long Island City, taking its name from the neighborhood’s industrial past. With…

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  • Forgotten Slices

    CRESCENT EVOLUTION

    by Kevin Walsh November 4, 2024
    by Kevin Walsh November 4, 2024 1 comment

    I recently wandered north on Crescent Street in Queens all the way from Hunters Point to Ditmars. I had already done a short Crescent Street page back in 2011, but…

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  • Walks

    LONG ISLAND CITY TO FORT GREENE, PART ONE

    by Kevin Walsh July 21, 2024
    by Kevin Walsh July 21, 2024 10 comments

    On July 5, 2024 I felt like getting in a boat, as July has been especially hot and humid this year even by recent standards. As I am chained to…

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  • Subways & Trains

    COURT SQUARE LAMPS

    by Kevin Walsh June 12, 2023
    by Kevin Walsh June 12, 2023 1 comment

    It seems odd to everyone but me, but I have always been a subway and mass transit buff (and its deterioration the past few years is severely disappointing, still I…

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  • Walks

    CREEK WALK 2017

    by Kevin Walsh March 5, 2023
    by Kevin Walsh March 5, 2023 9 comments

    SUNSHINE is my undecaffeinated coffee, my 5 Hour Energy, my Red Bull. I get more done on days with full sunshine than I do on overcast days; nonetheless, I have…

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  • Signs

    PEPSI-COLA, Hunters Point

    by Kevin Walsh November 15, 2022
    by Kevin Walsh November 15, 2022 6 comments

    THIS massive neon Pepsi sign, using Pepsi’s old script logo and old-style bottle, used to be best seen from Dag Hammarskjold Park on East 47th Street and 1st Avenue in Manhattan, though…

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  • One Shots

    NEW ROLES FOR POLES

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

    THOUGH I do a lot of history in Forgotten New York, it’s ultimately a site about infrastructure…I have been taking a keen interest in things like stoplights and lampposts since…

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  • Walks

    ACROSS THE CREEK: JULY 4th IN GREENPOINT

    by Kevin Walsh August 28, 2022
    by Kevin Walsh August 28, 2022 17 comments

    I have not taken many lengthy walks in the summer of 2022 and the last really ambitious one I did was from Hunters Point through Greenpoint, Williamsburg, Ridgewood and Glendale…

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  • One Shots

    STRANGE PERSISTENCE: VAN ALST

    by Kevin Walsh August 4, 2022
    by Kevin Walsh August 4, 2022 5 comments

    I’LL say it right off the bat this time: long ago, 21st Street, a main artery running from Ditmars through Long Island City to Hunters Point, was called Van Alst…

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  • Forgotten SlicesSubways & Trains

    HUNTERS POINT AVENUE STATION

    by Kevin Walsh July 26, 2022
    by Kevin Walsh July 26, 2022 11 comments

    I haven’t written about the Hunters Point Avenue station for about a decade, but it’s one of my favorites because it’s one of a select few stations in the NYC…

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