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  • Trolleys

    CHURCH AVENUE TROLLEY

    by Kevin Walsh October 16, 2022
    by Kevin Walsh October 16, 2022 14 comments

    WHILE riding on the B35 bus on Church Avenue in Kensington in the 1960s (my parents and I would take bus rides on all the local lines when I was…

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  • Roads

    TURNER-HARROW LANE, Kensington

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

    As readers of Forgotten New York know, I enjoy poring over old maps and seeking out ancient roads, then trying to ascertain if there are any remnants of them still…

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  • One ShotsSigns

    S&H GREEN STAMPS, Kensington

    by Kevin Walsh June 1, 2022
    by Kevin Walsh June 1, 2022 11 comments

    S&H, which stood for the Sperry Hutchinson Company founded in 1896 by Thomas Sperry and Shelly B. Hutchinson, was the most prominent “rewards program” in which stamps were given out…

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  • One ShotsRoads

    TRANSCONTINENTAL MYSTERY, Kensington

    by Kevin Walsh April 8, 2021
    by Kevin Walsh April 8, 2021 18 comments

    There is a small cluster of streets south of the Fort Hamilton Parkway border with Green-Wood Cemetery between 36th Street and Dahill Road, where the streets have four women’s names…

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  • One ShotsRoads

    NEW YORK STATE 27, Kensington

    by Kevin Walsh October 26, 2020
    by Kevin Walsh October 26, 2020 6 comments

    One of these days… months … years I’ll write a Forgotten New York page on all the New York state routes that run along local streets. There are a number…

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  • One ShotsSubways & Trains

    CULVER SPUR, Kensington

    by Kevin Walsh June 6, 2020
    by Kevin Walsh June 6, 2020 7 comments

    This spur track off the “Culver elevated” serving the F train at McDonald Avenue and Cortelyou Road is one of the only tangible reminders of the Culver Shuttle that connected…

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  • One Shots

    MARTENSE LANE, Kensington

    by Kevin Walsh April 7, 2020
    by Kevin Walsh April 7, 2020 3 comments

    I’ve written before about that little Brooklyn neighborhood wedged between Borough Park and Kensington, located between 36th Street, Dahill Road, Fort Hamilton Parkway (the edge of Green-Wood Cemetery) and Church…

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  • Neighborhoods

    MAPLETON, Brooklyn

    by Kevin Walsh March 1, 2020
    by Kevin Walsh March 1, 2020 19 comments

    with SERGEY KADINSKYForgotten NY correspondent I imagine that you weren’t aware that there’s a neighborhood called Mapleton in Brooklyn. It’s barely there anymore, as the larger neighborhoods of Bensonhurst and…

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  • Street Scenes

    PROSPECT AVENUE, Windsor Terrace

    by Kevin Walsh November 4, 2018
    by Kevin Walsh November 4, 2018 37 comments

    Prospect Avenue is the spine of Windsor Terrace, running from 3rd and Hamilton Avenues southeast and south to Ocean Parkway. It’s named for nearby Prospect Park and its high hills…

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  • One Shots

    BILLS and MICIELI PLACES, Brooklyn

    by Kevin Walsh August 23, 2018
    by Kevin Walsh August 23, 2018 7 comments

    There is a small wedge of Brooklyn, between Church Avenue, 36th Street, Fort Hamilton Parkway and McDonald Avenue, that’s not quite Borough Park and not quite Kensington; I imagine both…

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  • Walks

    CHURCH AVENUE, Flatbush, Part 1

    by Kevin Walsh January 10, 2016
    by Kevin Walsh January 10, 2016 64 comments

    Brooklyn’s Church Avenue runs from 37th Street between 13th and 14th Avenues on the Borough Park-Kensington border east and northeast to East 98th Street near Brookdale Hospital in Brownsville. The…

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  • Walks

    CARROLL GARDENS TO PARKVILLE, Part 2

    by Kevin Walsh June 1, 2014
    by Kevin Walsh June 1, 2014 7 comments

    So, where were we? In Part 1 I had gotten from the Bergen Street F line station by meandering down Smith and 3rd Streets, over the noxious and noisome Gowanus…

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