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    PFIZER BUILDINGS, Williamsburg

    by Kevin Walsh December 16, 2020
    by Kevin Walsh December 16, 2020 6 comments

    Many of the buildings along Flushing Avenue between Marcy and Tompkins Avenues are emblazoned with signs denoting the Pfizer Company. The drug manufacturer was opened by Charles Pfizer and cousin Charles…

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  • Neighborhoods

    CROSSING THE K, QUEENS-BROOKLYN Part 2

    by Kevin Walsh September 23, 2019
    by Kevin Walsh September 23, 2019 27 comments

    Continued from Part 1 GOOGLE MAP: WALKING THE NEW K FROM SUNNYSIDE TO GREENPOINT On August 28, 2019, I did something I had never done before: I stood in the…

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    COTTON BAGS, Williamsburg

    by Kevin Walsh May 2, 2019
    by Kevin Walsh May 2, 2019 1 comment

    March 2019 marks Forgotten New York’s 20th anniversary. To celebrate the occasion, I’ve re-scanned about 150 key images from the early days of FNY from 35MM prints. In the early…

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  • One ShotsStreet Lamps

    DUNHAM PLACE LAMP, Williamsburg

    by Kevin Walsh October 4, 2018
    by Kevin Walsh October 4, 2018 1 comment

    I’ve written about tiny Dunham Place (pronounced “dunnam”) before, back in 2008. About the only thing I forgot to mention is that the alley, between South 6th Street and Broadway…

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  • Forgotten Slices

    DOMINO PARK, Williamsburg

    by Kevin Walsh June 21, 2018
    by Kevin Walsh June 21, 2018 3 comments

    By SERGEY KADINSKY Forgotten NY correspondent In recent years it has been the norm in New York to demap streets by transforming them into plazas, or to give them “road…

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    GABILA’S KNISHES, Williamsburg

    by Kevin Walsh May 18, 2018
    by Kevin Walsh May 18, 2018 5 comments

    In late 2004 or early 2005 I was on South 8th Street because I had been tipped off about something interesting, which I’ll get to shortly. While there, I saw a…

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  • One ShotsStreet Lamps

    SPECIAL WILLIAMSBURG POST, Brooklyn

    by Kevin Walsh May 17, 2018
    by Kevin Walsh May 17, 2018 0 comment

    In the mid-1970s, the Williamsburg Bridge landing area in Brooklyn, and several streets south of it, were given this distinct lamppost design, as well as several davit-style poles — at…

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  • Street Scenes

    MEEKER AVENUE, Williamsburg-Greenpoint

    by Kevin Walsh April 22, 2018
    by Kevin Walsh April 22, 2018 9 comments

    By SERGEY KADINSKY Forgotten NY correspondent Whenever a boulevard or highway slashes through the street grid, triangular parcels that are too small to develop are assigned to the Parks Department,…

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  • One ShotsSubways & Trains

    BROADWAY BROOKLYN R-32, Williamsburg

    by Kevin Walsh September 22, 2017
    by Kevin Walsh September 22, 2017 3 comments

    I was doing some midweek loitering on the Marcy Avenue platform in Williamsburg, watching the trains go by. I can do this because over the past five years the copy…

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  • One ShotsStreet Necrology

    SECOND STREET, Williamsburg

    by Kevin Walsh November 30, 2016
    by Kevin Walsh November 30, 2016 2 comments

    Various alarms and surveillance devices cover a pair of chiseled street signs on a very old brick building at Wythe Avenue and North 8th Street in the Willie. How do…

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  • One ShotsSigns

    GLENWOOD HOTEL, Williamsburg

    by Kevin Walsh September 27, 2016
    by Kevin Walsh September 27, 2016 0 comment

    Here’s another photo from ForgottenTour #1, June 1st, 1999, on a walk down Brooklyn’s Broadway. I caught sight of this ancient sign for the Glenwood Hotel on Broadway near Rodney…

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  • One ShotsSigns

    DAVICO HAIR & FEATHER, Williamsburg

    by Kevin Walsh September 26, 2016
    by Kevin Walsh September 26, 2016 1 comment

    Revisiting some more photos from 1999: today I have a pair of pictures from ForgottenTour #1, on June 1st of that year. We met at Kent Avenue and Broadway and…

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