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    CROOKED HOUSE, Jackson Heights

    by Kevin Walsh August 2, 2022
    by Kevin Walsh August 2, 2022 9 comments

    EVERY so often when I’m in Jackson Heights, I make my way over to 31st Avenue and 81st Street to see how the Crooked House of Jackson Heights is doing.…

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    MOUNT EVEREST WAY, Jackson Heights

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

    MOUNT Everest is the tallest mountain in the world at just over 29000 feet (about 8849 meters) and sits on the border of China and Nepal, the mountain George Mallory…

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    HYBRID AT THE EARLE, Jackson Heights

    by Kevin Walsh January 8, 2022
    by Kevin Walsh January 8, 2022 6 comments

    In November 2021 I lit off for a walk through Elmhurst that wound me up at the Mets-Willets Point Long Island Rail Road station in Flushing Meadows, which I’ve found…

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  • One ShotsSigns

    ECONOMY-SIZE STREET SIGNS

    by Kevin Walsh December 15, 2021
    by Kevin Walsh December 15, 2021 3 comments

    In September 2021 I was making my unsteady and furtive way down 34th Avenue from Woodside to Jackson Heights when I spotted this extra-large 69th Street sign. Hard to see…

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  • One ShotsSigns

    SCRABBLE SIGN, Jackson Heights

    by Kevin Walsh May 21, 2021
    by Kevin Walsh May 21, 2021 4 comments

    I’ve mentioned it before…it’s a Forgotten NY oldie, but a goodie. It seems to be the height of redundancy and a complete waste to post two maroon landmark street signs…

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  • One Shots

    THE ANDREW JACKSON, Jackson Heights

    by Kevin Walsh August 17, 2020
    by Kevin Walsh August 17, 2020 9 comments

    If you stopped a Jackson Heights resident on the street and asked them which “Jackson” Jackson Heights is named for, if they had any guess at all they would probably…

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  • One ShotsSigns

    GLENN CURTISS AIRPORT, Jackson Heights

    by Kevin Walsh January 9, 2020
    by Kevin Walsh January 9, 2020 8 comments

    LaGuardia Airport was constructed in 1929 as Glenn Curtiss Field, and later, North Beach Airport, replacing a former North Beach amusement area called the Gala Amusement Park, opened in 1889…

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  • Forgotten Slices

    TRAVERS PARK, Jackson Heights

    by Kevin Walsh January 8, 2020
    by Kevin Walsh January 8, 2020 6 comments

    By SERGEY KADINSKYForgotten NY correspondent Across the city there are neighborhoods that are “parks” in name only, with only a handful of playgrounds providing much-needed public open space. Rego Park,…

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  • NeighborhoodsWalks

    FLUSHING TO WOODSIDE

    by Kevin Walsh August 12, 2018
    by Kevin Walsh August 12, 2018 6 comments

    The humidity in the Northeast in the summer of 2018 has been unrelenting, it’s like  South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, etc. Nevertheless I’ve been at it even more than ever, walking,…

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  • One Shots

    ONE ROOM SCHOOLHOUSE PARK, Jackson Heights

    by Kevin Walsh September 29, 2017
    by Kevin Walsh September 29, 2017 2 comments

    One Room Schoolhouse Park, Astoria Boulevard and 90th Street, sits on a .14 acre plot that was home to the schoolhouse mentioned in the park’s name, PS 10,  from 1879…

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  • Subways & Trains

    FLUSHING LINE CENTENNIAL Part 3

    by Kevin Walsh April 30, 2017
    by Kevin Walsh April 30, 2017 10 comments

    Continued from Part 2 Other than the BMT 4th Avenue Broadway Line (N, R, Q and now W trains) perhaps the majority of my subway rides for six decades have been…

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  • One ShotsStreet Lamps

    LAST LAMP MOHICAN on Roosevelt Avenue

    by Kevin Walsh March 27, 2016
    by Kevin Walsh March 27, 2016 3 comments

    In the 1970s, the Department of Transportation installed hundreds of Cooper UTR Traditionaire lamps (or similar models) beneath elevated trains, especially on Roosevelt and Liberty Avenues in Queens as well…

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