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    HYBRID AT THE EARLE, Jackson Heights

    by Kevin Walsh January 8, 2022
    by Kevin Walsh January 8, 2022 6 comments

    In November 2021 I lit off for a walk through Elmhurst that wound me up at the Mets-Willets Point Long Island Rail Road station in Flushing Meadows, which I’ve found…

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    OCEANA THEATRE, Brighton Beach

    by Kevin Walsh April 28, 2021
    by Kevin Walsh April 28, 2021 8 comments

    The NetCost supermarket at 1029 Brighton Beach Avenue, just east of Coney Island Avenue where Brighton Beach Avenues escapes from under the Brighton el (B, Q) into fresh air still…

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    NOVELTY COURT, Williamsburg

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

    Here’s an attractive brick apartment building at #778 Driggs Avenue between South 3rd and 4th Streets in Brooklyn. I enjoyed the green and gray terra cotta trim at the entrance.…

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    EMPIRE THEATRE, Bedford-Stuyvesant

    by Kevin Walsh August 18, 2020
    by Kevin Walsh August 18, 2020 8 comments

    Unfortunately I don’t get into eastern Bedford-Stuyvesant much, but a couple of structures at Ralph Avenue and Quincy Street recently attracted my notice. The dilapidated building shown above is the…

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    PARIS THEATRE, Midtown

    by Kevin Walsh July 24, 2019
    by Kevin Walsh July 24, 2019 10 comments

    As many ForgottenFans know, I have been working in the Columbus Circle/Hells Kitchen region of late. On an after-work ramble, I headed east on West 58th Street and happened upon…

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    PARAMOUNT, Stapleton

    by Kevin Walsh February 5, 2019
    by Kevin Walsh February 5, 2019 5 comments

    The Paramount Theatre, at 560 Bay Street near Prospect, is now likely Staten Island’s premier ‘ghost theater’ now that the St. George has been reactivated. It was designed by architects…

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    ALPINE THEATRE, Bay Ridge 1941

    by Kevin Walsh November 20, 2018
    by Kevin Walsh November 20, 2018 3 comments

    Here’s what was the Loew’s Alpine Theatre at 5th Avenue and Bay Ridge Avenue (69th Street) in 1941. The Alpine was opened in 1921 and was a movie theater from…

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    DECATUR THEATRE, Bushwick

    by Kevin Walsh November 8, 2018
    by Kevin Walsh November 8, 2018 0 comment

    The Decatur Theatre, 1674 (Brooklyn’s) Broadway, just north of Decatur Street, opened in 1914 on the site of a vaudeville house, the People’s Pleasure Palace. I wish they had stuck…

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    TIVOLI THEATRE, Downtown Brooklyn

    by Kevin Walsh November 7, 2018
    by Kevin Walsh November 7, 2018 6 comments

    The Tivoli Theatre, formerly at 363 Fulton Street just north of Adams, had a magnificent semicircular marquee, with white letters on a black background. In this 1940 tax photo recently…

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    BROOKLYN HEIGHTS CINEMAS

    by Kevin Walsh August 29, 2013
    by Kevin Walsh August 29, 2013 4 comments

    Brooklyn Heights Cinemas is probably one of the more unassuming movie theater buildings you will ever see, occupying a landmarked brick building constructed in 1890 at #70 Henry Street in…

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    MARDI GRAS THEATRE, East Flatbush, Brooklyn

    by Kevin Walsh April 17, 2012
    by Kevin Walsh April 17, 2012 12 comments

    It’s a fair guess that not one person who passes this building, seemingly untenanted as of 2012, knows it is a former theater. In fact it has greatly outlived its…

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