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  • One Shots

    NEPONSIT MEDICAL CENTER

    by Kevin Walsh December 8, 2018
    by Kevin Walsh December 8, 2018 4 comments

    Though Riis Park and its boardwalk and beach is quite busy indeed with sunseekers for a relatively short time, May through September, it can be forbidding indeed during the other months,…

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  • One ShotsSigns

    STARS OF HOPE, Rockaways

    by Kevin Walsh July 29, 2014
    by Kevin Walsh July 29, 2014 3 comments

    Heading north along Beach 121st Street in Belle Harbor for a Brownstoner Queens assignment, I was, at first, temporarily perplexed by the wood five-pointed stars affixed to hundreds of telephone…

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  • One ShotsStreet Lamps

    BEACH CHANNEL LIGHTS

    by Kevin Walsh September 15, 2013
    by Kevin Walsh September 15, 2013 0 comment

    These lamps, unique to New York City, light the pedestrian walkway along Jamaica Bay at Beach Channel Drive just west of the Cross Bay Bridge. 9/15/13

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  • SignsStreet NecrologySubways & Trains

    SUBWAY STREET NECROLOGY

    by Kevin Walsh February 27, 2011
    by Kevin Walsh February 27, 2011 0 comment

    The Forgotten NY Book of Street Necrology is a thick, dusty, ancient tome, encrusted with the grime of centuries, its lock rusting and the last flecks of gilt flaking off…

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  • Forgotten Slices

    THE ABANDONED COURTHOUSE

    by Kevin Walsh November 3, 2008
    by Kevin Walsh November 3, 2008 5 comments

    The abandoned courthouse has stood silently on Beach Channel Drive and Beach 90th Street, just east of Cross Bay Veterans Memorial Bridge, for several decades, awaiting either the day when it…

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  • Subways & Trains

    1907 BRT CARS

    by Kevin Walsh October 17, 2004
    by Kevin Walsh October 17, 2004 0 comment

    As Ray Davies puts it on a song on the Kinks’ Village Green Preservation Society LP, People take pictures of each other Just to prove that they really existed I’d seen photos of…

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  • AlleysNeighborhoods

    HITCH A RIDE TO ROCKAWAY BEACH to see the alleys

    by Kevin Walsh January 1, 2003
    by Kevin Walsh January 1, 2003 0 comment

    It’s a long way out there, at the end of the A Train on the Rockaway Peninsula, though its thousands of residents would differ with you about that. To them…

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  • NeighborhoodsStreet Scenes

    THE BRIDGE TO NASSAU COUNTY

    by Kevin Walsh September 3, 2000
    by Kevin Walsh September 3, 2000 11 comments

    Forgotten Fan Jeff Saltzman (of the Streetlite Nuts website) accompanied me in the summer of 2000 on a tour of the tiny neighborhoods, barely in Queens, that cluster around Rockaway…

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