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  • One ShotsRoads

    OLEAN STREET, Midwood

    by Kevin Walsh October 10, 2022
    by Kevin Walsh October 10, 2022 11 comments

    OLEAN Street, in the heart of Brooklyn in Midwood,  runs for two diagonal blocks between East 22nd and East 24th Streets between Avenues N and O. In a confusing situation…

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  • One ShotsSigns

    MIDWOOD TELEPHONE

    by Kevin Walsh August 5, 2020
    by Kevin Walsh August 5, 2020 30 comments

    Once upon a time, telephone customers were assigned alphanumeric telephone numbers. For example, the numbers were such as FOundation 8-3556 (now 368-2556), MOnument 2-2491 (now 662-2491) or NEvins 8-3886 (now 638-3886). The…

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  • AdsOne Shots

    McENERY’S, Midwood

    by Kevin Walsh March 23, 2020
    by Kevin Walsh March 23, 2020 3 comments

    Forgotten Fan Bill Mangahas passed along this photo taken a few years ago by Jay Bendersky of a painted building ad on Avenue J just east of Coney Island Avenue.…

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  • One ShotsSigns

    GOOD SHEPHERD LUTHERAN, Marine Park-Midwood

    by Kevin Walsh April 17, 2019
    by Kevin Walsh April 17, 2019 4 comments

    An unusual item turned up while I was attending a wake on Tuesday (April 16th). I disdain wakes, and I’ll have to make sure I don’t get one. I understand…

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  • Forgotten Slices

    SCENES FROM AVENUE J, Midwood

    by Kevin Walsh June 27, 2017
    by Kevin Walsh June 27, 2017 8 comments

    I was fresh from the “Parade of Trains,” an MTA event in which BRT Brooklyn Union Elevated cars from 1900-1910, BRT/BMT Standards and BMT Triplex Cars from the 1920s, and R1/R9…

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  • Street Scenes

    RETURN TO KINGS HIGHWAY

    by Kevin Walsh July 31, 2016
    by Kevin Walsh July 31, 2016 7 comments

    In late December 2001 I had a toothache and so found myself in the dentist chair in Bay Ridge on Christmas Eve for some emergency treatment. With mouth still numb,…

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  • AdsOne Shots

    MIDWOOD PALIMPSEST

    by Kevin Walsh July 13, 2016
    by Kevin Walsh July 13, 2016 0 comment

    By GARY FONVILLE Forgotten New York correspondent If you live in NYC, you know that construction is ever present.  If you don’t believe that concept, take a stroll around Downtown Brooklyn…

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  • Forgotten SlicesSigns

    ADIOS CLASSIC NEON DRUGSTORE SIGNS, Midwood

    by Kevin Walsh May 9, 2016
    by Kevin Walsh May 9, 2016 7 comments

    On a recent jaunt in Midwood, Brooklyn I made sure to check on a pair of classic neon drugstore signs I’ve been aware of for quite some time. Unfortunately the…

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  • Forgotten Slices

    FDR’S MISSING MONUMENT, Midwood

    by Kevin Walsh December 9, 2014
    by Kevin Walsh December 9, 2014 7 comments

    President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, the only President elected for four terms, served from 1933 to 1945, seeing the USA through the Great Depression and most of World War II. He…

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  • CemeteriesOne Shots

    WASHINGTON CEMETERY, Borough Park — Midwood

    by Kevin Walsh May 20, 2014
    by Kevin Walsh May 20, 2014 8 comments

    While Green-Wood and perhaps Evergreens get all the Brooklyn cemetery publicity, there’s another one smack in the center of the borough that’s fairly unnoticed, except if you are looking out…

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  • One Shots

    DIME SAVINGS BANK, Midwood

    by Kevin Walsh May 15, 2014
    by Kevin Walsh May 15, 2014 4 comments

    There was a time when banks were considered to be impenetrable fortresses where our hard-earned savings were kept, insured against robberies, eminently trustworthy and impregnable. Bank architecture reflected that belief…

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  • Subways & Trains

    AVENUE H, Brighton Line

    by Kevin Walsh April 30, 2014
    by Kevin Walsh April 30, 2014 13 comments

    I’m perhaps late with this one, but word recently trickled back to me that a Forgotten New York favorite, the Avenue H stationhouse, had had a makeover, after it survived a…

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