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    SUNNYSIDE DOUGHBOY 2018

    by Kevin Walsh April 7, 2025
    by Kevin Walsh April 7, 2025 2 comments

    TURNOUT was a bit down, but nonetheless enthusiastic, for Forgotten NY’s Sunnyside tour on a drizzly day in October 2018. Here the group is photographed at the Sunnyside Doughboy in…

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    HEISER STREET, SUNNYSIDE GARDENS

    by Kevin Walsh February 13, 2025
    by Kevin Walsh February 13, 2025 1 comment

    THE turn-of-the-century English Garden City movement of Sir Ebenezer Howard and Sir Raymond Unwin served as the inspiration for Sunnyside Gardens, built from 1924-1928. This housing experiment was aimed at showing civic leaders that…

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  • Forgotten Slices

    VICTORY BOULEVARD ARCHITECTURE

    by Kevin Walsh September 12, 2024
    by Kevin Walsh September 12, 2024 4 comments

    BACK in 2019, I walked Victory Boulevard from Clove Road to the Staten Island Expressway as part of a walk that clocked in at over 9 miles. It was intended…

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    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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  • MAP ROOM

    STREETS OF SUNNYSIDE, 1920

    by Kevin Walsh April 8, 2024
    by Kevin Walsh April 8, 2024 3 comments

    HERE’S a map excerpt I found at a NY Transit Museum exhibition of subway maps in early 2020; it shows the Corona (now the Flushing) and Astoria lines under construction.…

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  • Neighborhoods

    ST. RAPHAEL, BLISSVILLE

    by Kevin Walsh December 13, 2023
    by Kevin Walsh December 13, 2023 5 comments

    St. Raphael’s Church, named for an archangel, dominates views from Hunters Point, Blissville, Calvary Cemetery, and Sunnyside. It was built in 1885 here at Greenpoint and Hunters Point Avenues and replaced…

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  • Neighborhoods

    INSIDE, OUTSIDE, SUNNYSIDE

    by Kevin Walsh September 11, 2023
    by Kevin Walsh September 11, 2023 2 comments

    Whenever I am caught inside with a camera, I am usually wisely thrown out. My friend FNY correspondent Sergey Kadinsky doesn’t run into that kind of trouble and got inside…

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  • One Shots

    KNICKERBOCKER LAUNDRY, SUNNYSIDE

    by Kevin Walsh June 21, 2023
    by Kevin Walsh June 21, 2023 5 comments

    ONLY in the ‘dirty 30s’ (as weatherman Tex Antoine used to say) could a laundry be named the most beautiful building in Queens…though in the borough of Archie Bunker, maybe that isn’t…

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  • One Shots

    SCENE FROM A RESTAURANT, SUNNYSIDE

    by Kevin Walsh January 28, 2023
    by Kevin Walsh January 28, 2023 3 comments

    IT’S no-frills dining at its finest in this restaurant on Laurel Hill Boulevard in 1938. Straight-backed wood seats, tables and checkered tablecloths in what was likely an Italian eatery. Within…

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  • Walks

    SUNNYSIDE STROLL

    by Kevin Walsh October 23, 2022
    by Kevin Walsh October 23, 2022 6 comments

    FOR reasons the doctors are still unsure about, I’m unable to walk more than a mile or two without pain; I hope to get a diagnosis and treatment sometime soon,…

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  • Signs

    SUNNYSIDE NAMES

    by Kevin Walsh June 29, 2022
    by Kevin Walsh June 29, 2022 2 comments

    I’LL admit it. I’d like to get my name on an honorific New York City street sign. However, if I do I’ll never be able to see it because the…

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  • One Shots

    MAGGIE MAE’S, Sunnyside

    by Kevin Walsh March 10, 2022
    by Kevin Walsh March 10, 2022 11 comments

    YOUNGER Sunnysiders may not get the name of this Queens Boulevard bar but its owners no doubt did. The name refers to an old chanty from the British city of…

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