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  • Alleys

    OLD LANE, MASPETH

    by Kevin Walsh December 11, 2024
    by Kevin Walsh December 11, 2024 5 comments

    SINCE Forgotten New York seems to have wandered into several blind alleys this week, I may as well go with the flow and talk about another one. On the undefended…

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  • MAP ROOM

    LOST TOWNS, 1905

    by Kevin Walsh November 25, 2024
    by Kevin Walsh November 25, 2024 6 comments

    EVEN after Greater New York was founded in 1905, southern Brooklyn and much of Queens, Bronx and Staten Island was farmland if not open country, dotted here and there with…

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  • One Shots

    SHIRTTAIL ROW, MASPETH

    by Kevin Walsh April 18, 2024
    by Kevin Walsh April 18, 2024 2 comments

    THIS grouping of attached two-story residences found on 59th Drive between Fresh Pond Road and 64th Street, opposite the Rieff Playground, was built as workers’ houses of the Sampson’s Oil…

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  • Walks

    CREEK-A-THON 2017

    by Kevin Walsh September 17, 2023
    by Kevin Walsh September 17, 2023 3 comments

    In April 2017, Mitch Waxman, a member of the Newtown Creek Alliance, conducted one of his Newtown Creek tours, his most comprehensive, which he called “Creek-a-Thon”. It was an all-day affair…

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  • One Shots

    CLINTON HALL, MASPETH

    by Kevin Walsh August 28, 2023
    by Kevin Walsh August 28, 2023 5 comments

    In the colonial era, the neighborhood now known as Maspeth, Queens was the site of the home of a prominent canal builder, De Witt Clinton, who held nearly every available…

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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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  • Forgotten Slices

    ARTIFACTS OF WEST MASPETH

    by Kevin Walsh February 11, 2023
    by Kevin Walsh February 11, 2023 3 comments

    I was thinking of West Maspeth, a part of town few but its inhabitants give a second thought, specifically the region just east of the Long Island Rail Road Montauk…

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  • One Shots

    MASPETH PLANK BRIDGE

    by Kevin Walsh September 7, 2022
    by Kevin Walsh September 7, 2022 3 comments

    We have met the Creek and it is us. Here I am standing on the west end of 58th Road in a no-man’s land (except for the many industrial concerns located…

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  • One Shots

    SYRENA MARKET, Maspeth

    by Kevin Walsh March 23, 2022
    by Kevin Walsh March 23, 2022 3 comments

    THE symbol of Warsaw, Poland, is a mermaid wielding a sword and a shield. As early as the late 1300s, surviving paintings of coats of arms show a a creature…

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  • Forgotten Slices

    RIDGEWOOD PLATEAU, Maspeth

    by Kevin Walsh March 22, 2022
    by Kevin Walsh March 22, 2022 4 comments

    THERE are a couple of artifacts in Maspeth that may seem like a head-scratcher, as there are a couple of pieces of infrastructure that reference a neighborhood a couple of…

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  • One Shots

    EASTER RISING STEPS, Maspeth

    by Kevin Walsh March 17, 2022
    by Kevin Walsh March 17, 2022 3 comments

    THE topography between 64th Street and 65th Place at 53rd Avenue in Maspeth was deemed to hilly to build a road so instead, a pedestrian staircase connects the two routes,…

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  • Roads

    CALDWELL AVENUE MYSTERY, Maspeth

    by Kevin Walsh June 30, 2021
    by Kevin Walsh June 30, 2021 1 comment

    THERE’S something odd about Caldwell Avenue in Queens, which runs from 68th Street at Mount Olivet Cemetery east and southeast to Dry Harbor Road at about 84th Street, though it’s…

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