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    GROVER CLEVELAND PARK, Ridgewood

    by Kevin Walsh March 24, 2022
    by Kevin Walsh March 24, 2022 10 comments

    DEMOCRAT Grover Cleveland (who moved to New York State from New Jersey as a young man and served as mayor of Buffalo and NYS governor) holds the distinction of being the only…

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  • Forgotten Slices

    RIDGEWOOD PLATEAU, Maspeth

    by Kevin Walsh March 22, 2022
    by Kevin Walsh March 22, 2022 4 comments

    THERE are a couple of artifacts in Maspeth that may seem like a head-scratcher, as there are a couple of pieces of infrastructure that reference a neighborhood a couple of…

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  • One ShotsSigns

    DELICATESSEN, Ridgewood

    by Kevin Walsh December 28, 2021
    by Kevin Walsh December 28, 2021 1 comment

    “I know what I am, I’m glad I’m a man, and so’s Lola,” Ray Davies of the Kinks once sang. It’s good to know what you are. I’m not a…

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  • Walks

    BUSHWICK-RIDGEWOOD WALK No. 2

    by Kevin Walsh July 18, 2021
    by Kevin Walsh July 18, 2021 6 comments

    REALLY, I could have sworn I hadn’t been back in the Bushwick and Ridgewood area for a couple of years, but the internet doesn’t lie (well, some of it does),…

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  • Alleys

    KLEUPFEL COURT, Ridgewood

    by Kevin Walsh July 6, 2021
    by Kevin Walsh July 6, 2021 8 comments

    I was recently wandering around in Ridgewood for the first time in several months with the intent of getting new photos of its obscurities, which are numerous: I’ll enumerate them…

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  • One Shots

    BOHACK RESTAURANT, Ridgewood

    by Kevin Walsh September 15, 2020
    by Kevin Walsh September 15, 2020 10 comments

    German immigrant Henry C. Bohack opened his first grocery in 1887 and over the years Bohack developed into one of the first powerhouse grocery store chains. Grand Union, Key Food…

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  • One ShotsSigns

    RUDY’S, Ridgewood

    by Kevin Walsh August 7, 2019
    by Kevin Walsh August 7, 2019 9 comments

    Rudy’s Bakery & Café, 905 Seneca Ave. between Myrtle and Catalpa Avenues, has been in business for just over 80 years. The German word Konditorei can be translated as “cakes or baked…

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  • One ShotsSubways & Trains

    FRESH POND STATION, Ridgewood 1999

    by Kevin Walsh March 16, 2019
    by Kevin Walsh March 16, 2019 2 comments

    March 2019 marks Forgotten New York’s 20th anniversary. To mark the occasion, I’ve re-scanned about 150 key images from the early days of FNY from 35MM prints. In the early…

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  • One Shots

    LINDEN HILL CEMETERY, Ridgewood

    by Kevin Walsh May 23, 2018
    by Kevin Walsh May 23, 2018 17 comments

    Until the 1910s and ’20s Ridgewood was suburban and nearly rural in some spots, with farms and sprawling country homes, but developers Paul Stier and Gustave X. Mathews made marks…

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  • One Shots

    “ARBITRATION ROCK,” Ridgewood

    by Kevin Walsh May 1, 2018
    by Kevin Walsh May 1, 2018 1 comment

    The Van der Ende-Onderdonk House. Flushing and Onderdonk Avenues just past the undefended Brooklyn-Queens border,  was once a working farm, and now has a big back yard. In the middle…

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  • Walks

    MT. OLIVET CEMETERY TO BUSHWICK

    by Kevin Walsh March 26, 2018
    by Kevin Walsh March 26, 2018 10 comments

    Time to do a little bit of catchup in FNY. I go out with the camera all the time, so there’s no surprise that a lot of pictures are in…

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  • AdsOne Shots

    MEN’S CLOTHES, Ridgewood

    by Kevin Walsh March 12, 2018
    by Kevin Walsh March 12, 2018 9 comments

    Idling in Ridgewood the other day, I spotted this truly ancient painted ad on Seneca Avenue between Stanhope and Himrod. Other bits of the ad are visible but have mostly…

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