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  • One Shots

    SOHMER PIANO, ASTORIA

    by Kevin Walsh October 1, 2024
    by Kevin Walsh October 1, 2024 7 comments

    VERNON Boulevard’s most venerable structure may be the former Sohmer Piano factory, 11-31 Vernon at 31st Avenue. I first encountered the building several years ago when it was still occupied by the…

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    HOWARD JOHNSON, FLUSHING

    by Kevin Walsh September 25, 2024
    by Kevin Walsh September 25, 2024 19 comments

    WHEN I lived in eastern Flushing from 1993-2007, I didn’t recognize this structure on the Flushing-Auburndale border at Northern Boulevard and 165th Street for the artifact it was. At the…

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  • Forgotten Slices

    ELM TOWERS, LONG ISLAND CITY

    by Kevin Walsh September 24, 2024
    by Kevin Walsh September 24, 2024 1 comment

    HERE’S a handsome Tudor-ish apartment complex at 30th Drive and 29th Street in Long Island City. Though eastern Queens can sometimes resemble Nassau County, with shady residential streets and wide,…

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  • Subways & Trains

    CEDARHURST CUTOFF, ROSEDALE

    by Kevin Walsh September 17, 2024
    by Kevin Walsh September 17, 2024 2 comments

    STREET patterns can tell you a great deal about the characteristics of a neighborhood. For one thing, they call out the spirits of railroads past. We have already seen the…

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  • Forgotten Slices

    MOOSE ARE LOOSE IN QUEENS

    by Kevin Walsh September 5, 2024
    by Kevin Walsh September 5, 2024 6 comments

    THE Loyal Order of Moose is a fraternal and service organization founded in Louisville, KY in 1888 by Dr. John Henry Wilson. The organization was tainted by racism for its first few…

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  • Signs

    A FLUSHING MYSTERY

    by Kevin Walsh August 19, 2024
    by Kevin Walsh August 19, 2024 9 comments

    I have been paying more attention to the shingle signs that are found outside doctors’ offices, because some of them are old indeed and have been in place for a…

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  • Alleys

    WELLING COURT, ASTORIA VILLAGE

    by Kevin Walsh August 18, 2024
    by Kevin Walsh August 18, 2024 6 comments

    ASTORIA Village has suffered greatly from building speculators with large sums of cash in hand. Numerous important houses have been demolished, only to be replaced with large, boxy multi-family dwellings. The…

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  • Walks

    MOSTLY BURNS STREET, FOREST HILLS

    by Kevin Walsh August 11, 2024
    by Kevin Walsh August 11, 2024 5 comments

    I was tipped off about a couple of items of interest in Forest Hills, so I thought I would take the R train over there. Because I was out of…

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  • Subways & Trains

    HAMMELS WYE, ROCKAWAY

    by Kevin Walsh August 9, 2024
    by Kevin Walsh August 9, 2024 4 comments

    By SERGEY KADINSKYForgotten NY correspondent On the A train heading south, the tracks split into two branches, east to Far Rockaway, and west to Rockaway Park. Connecting this split is…

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  • Street Lamps

    JAMAICA AVENUE LAMP

    by Kevin Walsh August 7, 2024
    by Kevin Walsh August 7, 2024 2 comments

    As many who look at Forgotten NY know, I’m a streetlamp fanatic and have been since at least 1962 at age five, when I woke up one morning to find…

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  • One Shots

    STATION ROAD, FLUSHING

    by Kevin Walsh August 2, 2024
    by Kevin Walsh August 2, 2024 7 comments

    TIRED of the unrelenting dead canine humidity of NYC summer? It’s humid and getting humider, year after year. Here’s a winter 2021 view of Station Road along the Long Island…

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  • One Shots

    LOWERY’S WINE FACTORY, SUNNYSIDE

    by Kevin Walsh August 1, 2024
    by Kevin Walsh August 1, 2024 3 comments

    YOU just don’t see beautifully curved glass like this on store windows anymore, and handlettered signs like this are rare too. Squint and you can see the house numbered rendered…

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