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    QUEENS BOULEVARD VIADUCT, Sunnyside

    by Kevin Walsh March 4, 2021
    by Kevin Walsh March 4, 2021 1 comment

    I don’t have any particularly new historic information to impart about the Queens Boulevard Flushing Line Viaduct in Sunnyside, except that I thought this photo I got in late 2020…

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    ROCKAWAY TRACKS, Edgemere

    by Kevin Walsh February 26, 2021
    by Kevin Walsh February 26, 2021 12 comments

    My mission was simple in October 2018—I was going to walk the entire length of the Rockaway peninsula, from Riis Park all the way east to Far Rockaway. I nearly…

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  • Forgotten Slices

    VOELKER-ORTH MUSEUM, Flushing

    by Kevin Walsh February 25, 2021
    by Kevin Walsh February 25, 2021 2 comments

    A Victorian-era residence, the kind that have long been displaced in Flushing by boring, monolithic apartments and blond brick two-family homes (you know the type…concrete driveways and prominent water meters)…

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  • One ShotsStreet Lamps

    CLEARVIEW EXPRESSWAY LAMP, Bayside

    by Kevin Walsh February 23, 2021
    by Kevin Walsh February 23, 2021 3 comments

    These handsome lamps were standard issue in the 1950s for very specific purposes: they lit pedestrian walkways on expressways built during that decade. Poles very much like it can be…

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  • Roads

    STATION AND DEPOT ROADS, Flushing

    by Kevin Walsh February 21, 2021
    by Kevin Walsh February 21, 2021 6 comments

    On a whim, I decided to walk the entire lengths of two Flushing roads for which I have always had some fascination, Station and Depot Roads in Flushing and Auburndale.…

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    MARBLETTE CORPORATION, Long Island City

    by Kevin Walsh February 19, 2021
    by Kevin Walsh February 19, 2021 1 comment

    The Astoria Elevated runs from Queensboro Plaza north to Ditmars Boulevard on 31st Street; it has been here since 1917, and was originally run in an unusual joint operation by…

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  • Forgotten Slices

    HIGBIE HOUSE, Springfield Gardens

    by Kevin Walsh February 16, 2021
    by Kevin Walsh February 16, 2021 5 comments

    In Queens, Springfield Boulevard and Springfield Gardens are a bit misunderstood. The belief persists that the Springfields in these names originated from when Creedmoor State Hospital was a rifle range,…

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  • One Shots

    JACOB RIIS, Riis Park

    by Kevin Walsh February 15, 2021
    by Kevin Walsh February 15, 2021 3 comments

    Danish-born crusading journalist and photographer Jacob Riis (1849-1914) made his home in Richmond Hill, Queens, beginning in 1886. In 1887, Riis photographed the squalid, inhumane conditions prevalent in New York City’s…

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    PULASKI BRIDGE, Newtown Creek

    by Kevin Walsh February 10, 2021
    by Kevin Walsh February 10, 2021 3 comments

    Andrzej Tadeusz Bonawentura Kościuszko isn’t the only Polish Revolutionary-era patriot honored with a bridge across Newtown Creek. Manhattan Avenue formerly connected with Vernon Avenue (now Boulevard) in Long Island City via a…

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    WOMRATH’S, Forest Hills

    by Kevin Walsh February 4, 2021
    by Kevin Walsh February 4, 2021 9 comments

    From the NYC Municipal Archives, here’s a look at 71-66 Austin Street in Forest Hills which then housed a Womrath’s library. Since I remember Womrath’s in Bay Ridge as a…

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    HALSEY’S OLD HOME, Astoria

    by Kevin Walsh January 31, 2021
    by Kevin Walsh January 31, 2021 5 comments

    I’ve decided to take this Sunday “off,” so FNY’s Sergey Kadinsky is filling in with an item about a part of Queens west of Astoria Village where I’m rarely found,…

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  • One ShotsSubways & Trains

    ROCKAWAY LINE TRACKS, Forest Park

    by Kevin Walsh January 20, 2021
    by Kevin Walsh January 20, 2021 6 comments

    The Long Island Railroad’s Rockaway Beach Branch diverged from the LIRR’s Main Line in Rego Park at about 66th Ave. at what was called Whitepot Junction. It ran south through the…

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