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    WILLIAMSBURG TO SUNNYSIDE, Part 1

    by Kevin Walsh May 15, 2016
    by Kevin Walsh May 15, 2016 5 comments

    Glad to be with you this week — for most of the day I began to compose the page it looked like I wouldn’t be able to do it, as…

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    SUNNYSIDE YARD VIADUCTS

    by Kevin Walsh December 29, 2014
    by Kevin Walsh December 29, 2014 1 comment

    Queens’ Sunnyside Yards were competed in 1910, at the same time as Pennsylvania Station in Manhattan and the four tunnels that at long last brought Long Island Rail Road trains…

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    AUGUSTINIAN ACADEMY, Sunnyside (Staten Island)

    by Kevin Walsh November 29, 2014
    by Kevin Walsh November 29, 2014 0 comment

    The Spanish Mission-style Augustinian Academy on Campus Road just east of Howard Avenue stood from 1923 until the early 2000s. The Augustinian Academy, founded in 1899 in New Brighton, purchased…

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  • One ShotsSigns

    HIKE NEW YORK, Sunnyside

    by Kevin Walsh November 14, 2014
    by Kevin Walsh November 14, 2014 1 comment

    Just to get it out of the way, there’s no organization called “Hike New York”, but there are 44 pairs of 24″ diameter signs placed along designated routes in Astoria,…

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  • One ShotsSigns

    CRECO, Sunnyside

    by Kevin Walsh November 14, 2014
    by Kevin Walsh November 14, 2014 3 comments

    This illuminated sign that appears at 43rd Avenue and 36th Street in Sunnyside seems to be advertising a now-departed business. There are various CRECOs worldwide: equipment rental, light manufacturing, concrete…

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    QUASAR TVs, Sunnyside

    by Kevin Walsh August 10, 2014
    by Kevin Walsh August 10, 2014 2 comments

    A quasar, which stands for “quasi-stellar” is a super-bright area in the center of a galaxy being swallowed by a black hole, emitting tremendous amounts of radioelectric energy. Some quasars…

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  • One Shots

    SUNNYSIDE UP on 45th Street

    by Kevin Walsh March 19, 2014
    by Kevin Walsh March 19, 2014 7 comments

    Here’s a pair of doorways on 45th Street near 50th Avenue in Sunnyside that show the creators and purveyors of Fedders Specials how it’s done, with stylish arched doorways with…

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    RIDGEWOOD TO SUNNYSIDE

    by Kevin Walsh October 20, 2013
    by Kevin Walsh October 20, 2013 26 comments

    I was still not working, and the dead dog heat of August baked with its usual intensity (and this year the dead dog heat would be extended into October, when…

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  • One Shots

    REAL REAL GONE in Sunnyside

    by Kevin Walsh August 10, 2013
    by Kevin Walsh August 10, 2013 9 comments

    In a photo that didn’t make the upcoming Forgotten Queens book, a general store stands on the corner of Borden Avenue and 45th Street in the Fabulous Forties. This site…

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    CELTIC AVENUE, Sunnyside

    by Kevin Walsh August 5, 2013
    by Kevin Walsh August 5, 2013 3 comments

    I’m highlighting the sign identifying Celtic Avenue (properly pronounced “Keltic” though probably few do) because I took it  a few years ago, and it’s now been replaced with a new…

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  • One ShotsSubways & Trains

    QUEENS BOULEVARD VIADUCT, Sunnyside

    by Kevin Walsh June 17, 2013
    by Kevin Walsh June 17, 2013 9 comments

    The concrete-cladded viaduct that takes the IRT #7 Flushing Line down the middle of Queens Boulevard in Sunnyside was built in 1917, and in the mid-1990s was treated to a…

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    FRANKEN-LIGHTS. Sunnyside lamppost experiments

    by Kevin Walsh April 12, 2013
    by Kevin Walsh April 12, 2013 14 comments

    There seems to be some strange stuff, lamppost and luminaire-wise, increasingly happening in Sunnyside, Queens. While NYC’s streets until mid-2009 were a glorious mish mosh of lighting styles, from the…

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