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    SCENE FROM A RESTAURANT, SUNNYSIDE

    by Kevin Walsh January 28, 2023
    by Kevin Walsh January 28, 2023 1 comment

    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 5 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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  • One Shots

    SUNNYSIDE CROSSING

    by Kevin Walsh December 30, 2021
    by Kevin Walsh December 30, 2021 17 comments

    NEW York City’s largest train yard, Sunnyside Yard, is indeed vast. When I took the Long Island Rail Road to Manhattan every day, I rode the tracks going south of…

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    NAMES OF SUNNYSIDE

    by Kevin Walsh December 29, 2021
    by Kevin Walsh December 29, 2021 2 comments

    LOWERY Street is, or was, one of many north-south parallel streets in Sunnyside. It received a number, 40, during the 1920s. For an unprepossessing side street, the Department of Transportation…

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  • Forgotten Slices

    AUSTELL PLACE, Long Island City

    by Kevin Walsh October 23, 2021
    by Kevin Walsh October 23, 2021 4 comments

    AUSTELL PLACE is one of a cluster of short streets in Long Island City south of Sunnyside Yards and west of the Dutch Kills turning basin. I have always had…

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  • Signs

    LONG ISLAND CASKET & BOX, Sunnyside

    by Kevin Walsh October 1, 2021
    by Kevin Walsh October 1, 2021 6 comments

    FUNNY how I miss things. Even though I have considered myself more diligent than ever in tracking down remnants of NYC’s past as an infrastructural archeologist, It’ surprising how much…

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  • One ShotsSubways & Trains

    QUEENS BOULEVARD VIADUCT, Sunnyside

    by Kevin Walsh March 4, 2021
    by Kevin Walsh March 4, 2021 6 comments

    I don’t have any particularly new historic information to impart about the Queens Boulevard Flushing Line Viaduct in Sunnyside, except that I thought this photo I got in late 2020…

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  • Walks

    SUNNYSIDE to HUNTERS POINT

    by Kevin Walsh November 1, 2020
    by Kevin Walsh November 1, 2020 14 comments

    I set off from Sunnyside for a therapeutic walk on an October 2020 Sunday. The day began in bright sunshine, but low, dark clouds soon showed up, dark enough that…

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  • Walks

    WOODSIDE & SUNNYSIDE WALK

    by Kevin Walsh October 19, 2020
    by Kevin Walsh October 19, 2020 15 comments

    All was still normal on Saturday, March 14, 2020 as far as I was concerned, though during the previous week, coverage of the Covid-19 virus was suddenly ramped up to…

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  • One ShotsSigns

    BLISS GROCERY, Sunnyside

    by Kevin Walsh September 10, 2020
    by Kevin Walsh September 10, 2020 2 comments

    I find it interesting that the name of the Bliss Grocery at Queens Boulevard and 47th Street in Sunnyside was not named for the owner of the grocery, or from…

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