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    A MAILBOX TRIO

    by Kevin Walsh February 2, 2023
    by Kevin Walsh February 2, 2023 8 comments

    I was staggering around in western Queens in July 2020, crazed from the humidity, when I found this mailbox trio. The mailbox on the left, painted olive green, is called…

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    SLOT MAILBOX, Riverdale 1999

    by Kevin Walsh March 20, 2019
    by Kevin Walsh March 20, 2019 1 comment

    March 2019 marks Forgotten New York’s 20th anniversary. To mark the occasion, I’ve re-scanned about 150 key images from the early days of FNY from 35MM prints. In the early…

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    HISTORY OF NYC MAILBOXES, Forest Hills

    by Kevin Walsh September 24, 2018
    by Kevin Walsh September 24, 2018 3 comments

    When I first started Forgotten NY in 1998, there were still a number of small slotted mailboxes, mounted on telephone poles or on their own pebbled concrete posts. Every one…

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    MAILBOX POLE, Maspeth

    by Kevin Walsh September 12, 2015
    by Kevin Walsh September 12, 2015 2 comments

    Every so often while prowling around the lesser-known NYC neighborhoods (OK, who am I kidding, it’s usually only me that prowls like this, but I’ll stick with the phrasing) you…

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