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    MYRTLE MEMORIALS

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

    WHEN looking for appropriate material for Memorial Day weekend my thoughts turned to Myrtle Avenue, a lengthy street that is about equal parts in Brooklyn and Queens, and I remembered…

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    GHOST OF SHEA STADIUM, WOODSIDE

    by Kevin Walsh May 23, 2023
    by Kevin Walsh May 23, 2023 3 comments

    ONGOING renovations at the Long Island Rail Road Woodside complex (it was last re-done between 1995 and 1998 and requires an overhaul) have revealed a “To Shea Stadium” sign at…

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  • One Shots

    UPSTAIRS AT THE QUINN

    by Kevin Walsh May 22, 2023
    by Kevin Walsh May 22, 2023 3 comments

    BETWEEN 2011 and 2018, before the Zoom era began in earnest, when I wasn’t working I would report two or three times a week to the The Quinn-Morisco Funeral Home,…

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  • Roads

    WHERE IT ALL BEGINS, PART 2

    by Kevin Walsh May 21, 2023
    by Kevin Walsh May 21, 2023 7 comments

    SINCE I haven’t been able to get out much, I have decided to continue my recently minted series Where It All Begins, that employs the magic of Google Street View…

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  • Street Lamps

    CYPRESS HILLS DOUBLE MAST

    by Kevin Walsh May 15, 2023
    by Kevin Walsh May 15, 2023 3 comments

    In my now lost youth, I would bicycle all over Brooklyn and Queens from Bay Ridge before bicycling became a religion at whose altar politicians worshiped, creating green bicycle lanes…

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  • Roads

    WHERE IT ALL BEGINS…

    by Kevin Walsh May 14, 2023
    by Kevin Walsh May 14, 2023 12 comments

    BEGINNING a series here that I will return to from time to time about where NYC’s longest roads originate. My aim here is to show the “sources” of roads and…

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  • Roads

    BOOTH MEMORIAL AVENUE, FRESH MEADOWS

    by Kevin Walsh May 7, 2023
    by Kevin Walsh May 7, 2023 14 comments

    TODAY I want to talk about a road running from southern Flushing east to Fresh Meadows, that bears the name of a hospital that doesn’t exist anymore … and was…

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  • One Shots

    SOURCE OF GREENPOINT AVENUE

    by Kevin Walsh April 25, 2023
    by Kevin Walsh April 25, 2023 9 comments

    I may do a new series in Forgotten New York pointing out the humble beginnings of major, well-known NYC streets. Today, I’m showing you the east end of the combined…

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  • One Shots

    SWINGLINE STAPLERS BUILDING, LONG ISLAND CITY

    by Kevin Walsh April 6, 2023
    by Kevin Walsh April 6, 2023 7 comments

    RECENTLY home to Newel Props, which rents furniture for movie and stage productions, and the City View Racquet Club, this building which fills an entire block at Skillman Avenue and Van…

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  • One Shots

    HALF HOUSES, STEINWAY VILLAGE

    by Kevin Walsh April 1, 2023
    by Kevin Walsh April 1, 2023 3 comments

    STEINWAY Village in northwest Queens was a small company town that was instituted by William Steinway, son of German immigrant Henry, who had moved his operations to Astoria on the…

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    PLATFORM LIGHTING, Corona-Flushing

    by Kevin Walsh March 20, 2023
    by Kevin Walsh March 20, 2023 5 comments

    An aspect of subways and railroads in New York City that has never gotten deserved scrutiny is the wide variety of platform lighting found around town both in the subways…

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  • Street Lamps

    EXPRESSWAY WALKWAY POSTS

    by Kevin Walsh March 11, 2023
    by Kevin Walsh March 11, 2023 1 comment

    I haven’t devoted a page exclusively to a specific variety of lamp that was installed exclusively on pedestrian walkways that spanned expressways built in the 1950s; this variety, sort of…

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