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    HEALTHY PARKS

    by Kevin Walsh March 16, 2020
    by Kevin Walsh March 16, 2020 6 comments

    By SERGEY KADINSKYForgotten NY correspondent With the Coronavirus compelling New Yorkers into a springtime quarantine, my hometown borough has two small parks with “Health” in their names. Their locations take…

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    CHELSEA, LATELY: New Park on West 20th

    by Kevin Walsh August 6, 2019
    by Kevin Walsh August 6, 2019 3 comments

    By SERGEY KADINSKYForgotten NY correspondent On July 25, 2019 the Manhattan neighborhood of Chelsea received its first new park in 40 years, with the opening of the .23-acre midblock green…

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    FORT INDEPENDENCE PARK, Van Cortlandt Village

    by Kevin Walsh November 5, 2014
    by Kevin Walsh November 5, 2014 2 comments

    At the present time, Fort Independence Park represents the only public green space that is directly adjacent to the Jerome Park Reservoir in Van Cortlandt Village in the Bronx, running along…

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  • Out of Town

    VAN VORST PARK, Jersey City

    by Kevin Walsh July 14, 2013
    by Kevin Walsh July 14, 2013 14 comments

    I felt like getting out of town for awhile. Now, for some people that means a couple of weeks in Italy, or perhaps Vienna with a side trip to Macchu…

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    GRAND FERRY PARK, Williamsburg

    by Kevin Walsh January 15, 2013
    by Kevin Walsh January 15, 2013 6 comments

    Tucked away at the west end of Grand Street where it meets the East River and punctuated by a tall smokestack you’ll find a small oasis that indirectly remembers the…

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    WHICH WAY TO THE FAIR?

    by Kevin Walsh March 21, 2012
    by Kevin Walsh March 21, 2012 21 comments

    Directional sign in use during the Flushing Meadows Corona Park World’s Fair from 1964-1965. Why were blue and orange the Fair’s colors? They are the NY Mets colors, and Shea…

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  • Street Lamps

    LAMPPOSTS BY THE LETTER: Types A through G

    by Kevin Walsh April 5, 2009
    by Kevin Walsh April 5, 2009 0 comment

    Paleontologists tell us that the legions of birds twittering in the trees, paddling in streams and migrating worldwide in the air are directly descended from the dinosaur line and are all…

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  • Street Scenes

    THE REAL FLUSHING MEADOWS-CORONA PARK

    by Kevin Walsh March 20, 2007
    by Kevin Walsh March 20, 2007 1 comment

    Disregarding the arrests of Yovanni “NyQuil” Rivera and Marcos Polanco, who went on a violent mugging spree in the fall and winter of 2006-07, and ignoring the story about the five homeless men…

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  • Street Scenes

    SECRETS OF PROSPECT PARK

    by Kevin Walsh May 30, 2005
    by Kevin Walsh May 30, 2005 6 comments

    Music Pagoda DURING my years in Brooklyn, before moving to Flushing in 1993, I developed a keen interest in Prospect Park, which was strange because, in my youthful peregrinations both with…

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  • You'd Never Believe You're in NYC

    MARINERS MARSH PARK

    by Kevin Walsh December 23, 2003
    by Kevin Walsh December 23, 2003 2 comments

    Directly across Richmond Terrace from Mariners’ Harbor, in the far northwest shore of Staten Island up a lengthy gravel path, are the remains of docks (occasionally) covered in rime, from…

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  • You'd Never Believe You're in NYC

    BLUE HERON and WOLFE’S POND PARKS

    by Kevin Walsh July 20, 2001
    by Kevin Walsh July 20, 2001 1 comment

    At Forgotten NY, it’s been awhile since we settled into Thoreauvian mode and visited a part of town that in no way resembles the horn-honking, jolt-cola, cell-phone-yapping rest of town,…

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  • You'd Never Believe You're in NYC

    RATTLESNAKE BROOK

    by Kevin Walsh July 31, 1999
    by Kevin Walsh July 31, 1999 19 comments

    Rattlesnakes? In New York City? Not anymore. The last rattlesnakes in the Bronx, their last stronghold, died off around the turn of the last century because of encroaching civilization as…

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