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    WHERE IT ALL BEGINS, PART 2

    by Kevin Walsh May 21, 2023
    by Kevin Walsh May 21, 2023 6 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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  • 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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  • One ShotsYou'd Never Believe You're in NYC

    ST. ANDREW’S CHURCH, RICHMONDTOWN

    by Kevin Walsh May 9, 2023
    by Kevin Walsh May 9, 2023 3 comments

    THE Episcopal Church of St. Andrew was granted a charter by the British Queen Anne in 1712 after its inception three years earlier; that charter remains in the possession of…

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  • One Shots

    CAPODANNO STOPLIGHT, MIDLAND BEACH

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

    WHEN I saw this unique stoplight on Father Capodanno Boulevard and Seaview Avenue in Midland Beach, I thought it might be the vanguard of a new style of simplified-design stoplights…

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  • Forgotten Slices

    MILLER FIELD, NEW DORP

    by Kevin Walsh March 26, 2023
    by Kevin Walsh March 26, 2023 6 comments

    By SERGEY KADINSKYForgotten New York correspondent FROM the Verrazano Bridge area heading south, Father Capodanno Boulevard is a pedal-to-the-metal shorefront road that was intended to serve as a highway. Among…

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  • Ads

    FLETCHER’S CASTORIA, NEW BRIGHTON

    by Kevin Walsh March 23, 2023
    by Kevin Walsh March 23, 2023 5 comments

    FLETCHER’S Castoria ads have been a staple in the Forgotten New York ancient painted ads category from the very beginning, back in 1999. They can be seen frequently in photographs…

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  • Roads

    STREETS WITH NO EXPLANATION

    by Kevin Walsh March 4, 2023
    by Kevin Walsh March 4, 2023 11 comments

    “There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy” — Hamlet In nearly a quarter century of wandering around New York City photographing…

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  • Forgotten Slices

    ELTINGVILLE ROUNDHOUSE

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

    By SERGEY KADINSKYForgotten NY correspondent WITH more than two decades of travels around the city, what hasn’t Kevin Walsh already seen? In the Staten Island neighborhood of Eltingville, Kevin documented…

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  • Forgotten Slices

    HARRISON STREET, Stapleton

    by Kevin Walsh November 27, 2022
    by Kevin Walsh November 27, 2022 10 comments

    To begin, I’ll quote myself from the ForgottenBook… Stapleton and Clifton are two adjacent neighborhoods on Staten Island’s northeast coast along Upper New York Bay. The Vanderbilt family held much…

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  • Subways & Trains

    ROSEBANK, SIRT

    by Kevin Walsh October 30, 2022
    by Kevin Walsh October 30, 2022 5 comments

    HERE’S a look at the Rosebank Staten Island Rapid Transit station with a northbound train in the early 1950s. This was part of the SIRT South Shore Branch, which diverged…

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  • One Shots

    PS 4, Charleston

    by Kevin Walsh October 19, 2022
    by Kevin Walsh October 19, 2022 5 comments

    In 1854, at about the same time that Henry Steinway Sr. was starting his piano empire, Balthazar Kreischer was building a brick factory in Charleston, Staten Island (Richmond County was…

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  • Forgotten Slices

    MONT SEC HOUSES, Fort Wadsworth

    by Kevin Walsh October 11, 2022
    by Kevin Walsh October 11, 2022 6 comments

    THE southeastern tip of Staten Island, its closest approach to Long Island, has been protected by fortifications since 1663, when a Dutch blockhouse was established. The area was known as…

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