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    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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  • Neighborhoods

    MASPETH ROVE

    by Kevin Walsh July 12, 2020
    by Kevin Walsh July 12, 2020 10 comments

    I was actually stumped about something to write about this week — I have plenty of unused photos, but not the inclination to write about any of their locales (they…

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  • Forgotten SlicesRoads

    QUEENS’ MAIDEN LANE

    by Kevin Walsh May 28, 2020
    by Kevin Walsh May 28, 2020 4 comments

    On my Maspeth wanderings (I have Maspeth wanderings; Blissville wanderings; Richmondtown wanderings; Inwood wanderings; Gravesend wanderings; Wakefield wanderings; you get the picture) I have always been fascinated with Mazeau Street…

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  • One ShotsSigns

    DEWITT CLINTON HISTORIC SIGN, Maspeth

    by Kevin Walsh February 3, 2020
    by Kevin Walsh February 3, 2020 0 comment

    Maspeth isn’t a location many associate with DeWitt Clinton (1769-1828), a founding father who served as NY State Assemblyman, NYS Senator, NYS Governor, US Senator and NYC Mayor during an…

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  • MAP ROOMOne Shots

    MASPETH 1936

    by Kevin Walsh January 22, 2020
    by Kevin Walsh January 22, 2020 2 comments

    I’ve been fond of showing excepts from a Dripps map of Queens County produced in 1852 (linked from here), showing roads that existed back then and explaining where they are…

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  • One ShotsSigns

    THE HAMS OF IAVARONE, Bushwick-Maspeth

    by Kevin Walsh December 27, 2019
    by Kevin Walsh December 27, 2019 7 comments

    I was meandering my way northeast in Bushwick the other day, heading for 69th Street in Maspeth where I would catch the Q18 bus back to Woodside, and the LIRR…

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  • CemeteriesWalks

    BETTS CEMETERY, West Maspeth

    by Kevin Walsh June 23, 2019
    by Kevin Walsh June 23, 2019 10 comments

    In March 2019 I was given the opportunity to appear in the New York Post for Forgotten New York’s 20th anniversary, with an interview by the Post‘s Hana Alberts and…

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  • MAP ROOMOne Shots

    MASPETH-ELMHURST 1852

    by Kevin Walsh July 31, 2018
    by Kevin Walsh July 31, 2018 8 comments

    Though a rough grid has been in command of the Queens street layout as dozens of separate housing developments knit together disparate small towns in Queens over the decades of…

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