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    STREETS WITH NO EXPLANATION

    by Kevin Walsh March 4, 2023
    by Kevin Walsh March 4, 2023 11 comments

    “There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy” — Hamlet In nearly a quarter century of wandering around New York City photographing…

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  • One ShotsRoads

    LIBBY PLACE, Pelham Bay

    by Kevin Walsh September 17, 2022
    by Kevin Walsh September 17, 2022 0 comment

    THERE is a very short street in Pelham Bay, a few blocks west of Pelham Bay Park, called Libby Place. It still retains touches from a previous era, such as…

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  • Walks

    SOUNDVIEW TO PELHAM BAY

    by Kevin Walsh January 24, 2021
    by Kevin Walsh January 24, 2021 7 comments

    During the summer, I did something a bit different — I took NYC Ferry to DUMBO in Brooklyn, which I had always accessed with the F train. I think I…

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  • Walks

    PELHAM TIME

    by Kevin Walsh December 15, 2019
    by Kevin Walsh December 15, 2019 16 comments

    The website I’ve run for 20 years, Forgotten New York, is sometimes like the NFL. I’ll explain. The NFL is divided into two conferences, the AFC and the NFC, which…

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  • Walks

    MORRIS PARK, Bronx

    by Kevin Walsh January 27, 2019
    by Kevin Walsh January 27, 2019 28 comments

    I hadn’t sallied up Morris Park Avenue in the Bronx for some time — not since 2006-7 or so, and on this sort of hangdog afternoon on either side of…

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  • Street Scenes

    BRONX GREENBELT: Mosholu and Pelham Parkways

    by Kevin Walsh October 11, 2010
    by Kevin Walsh October 11, 2010 0 comment

    From the ForgottenBook: Mosholu Parkway is among the many Native American place names that have been woven into the city’s fabric. Mo-sho-lu, or “smooth stones” was the Algonquin name of…

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  • AlleysForgotten Slices

    PELHAM BAY’S “B STREET”

    by Kevin Walsh July 26, 2010
    by Kevin Walsh July 26, 2010 5 comments

    While skulking through Pelham Bay in the Bronx in July 2010, I once again pondered the origin of the heretofore mysterious B Street, which runs south to a dead end…

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  • Neighborhoods

    PELHAM BAY, Bronx

    by Kevin Walsh July 18, 2010
    by Kevin Walsh July 18, 2010 0 comment

    Forgotten New York is sometimes like the NFL. (Stick with me.) The NFL is divided into two conferences, the AFC and the NFC, which in turn are divided into three…

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  • Neighborhoods

    PELHAM BAY PART 2, Bronx

    by Kevin Walsh July 18, 2010
    by Kevin Walsh July 18, 2010 0 comment

    CONTINUED FROM PART 1 Back in June [2010] I was dazedly puttering around the Middletown and Pelham Bay neighborhoods in the northeast Bronx, the kinds of New York City areas…

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  • Forgotten SlicesStreet Lamps

    PELHAM BAY LAMPPOST HISTORY

    by Kevin Walsh June 30, 2010
    by Kevin Walsh June 30, 2010 1 comment

    On a way more brutally hot Saturday than my post-operational stamina had any right to be enduring, I weaved my way pitifully through Pelham Bay in the Bronx, a mendicant seeking…

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  • NeighborhoodsRoadsStreet Scenes

    WESTCHESTER AVENUE, Bronx, Part 1

    by Kevin Walsh September 6, 2009
    by Kevin Walsh September 6, 2009 0 comment

    I love els. From Brooklyn’s New Utrecht Ave., Livonia Avenue, Broadway of Brooklyn (Manhattan’s Broadway is elled too) to Queens’ Liberty and Jamaica Avenues, Roosevelt Avenue and Queens Boulevard (that…

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  • Alleys

    YZNAGA SAGA Cuban sugar plantations & ancient colonial post roads.

    by Kevin Walsh November 17, 2001
    by Kevin Walsh November 17, 2001 0 comment

      Yznaga Place Quite possibly the only place name in the United States that begins with “yz”. I’ve looked at USA and world atlases and can’t find anymore initial Yz’s.…

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