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    6th STREET, Williamsburg

    by Kevin Walsh June 23, 2021
    by Kevin Walsh June 23, 2021 2 comments

    Deep in the heart of Williamsburg is a remnant of its former street numbering system, as Roebling Street is here rendered as “Sixth Street.” North-south Williamsburg streets were originally numbered…

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    ST. FRANCIS PREP, Fresh Meadows

    by Kevin Walsh May 6, 2021
    by Kevin Walsh May 6, 2021 13 comments

    Back in 2015 I was wandering around Cunningham Park in Fresh Meadows and somehow found my way onto the dirt bike trail. Understand, that trail wasn’t built as a way…

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    THANK YOU, MR. CARRIER

    by Kevin Walsh May 4, 2021
    by Kevin Walsh May 4, 2021 4 comments

    It’s getting to be that time of year when all of us, or those of us who despise humid air, should genuflect in the direction of East Williamsburg, or southern…

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  • Walks

    GRAND STREET, Williamsburg

    by Kevin Walsh February 14, 2021
    by Kevin Walsh February 14, 2021 18 comments

    I braved the ice floes in the first week of February 2021 and hit the 7 and G trains to the Broadway stop at Union Avenue. I had a desire…

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  • One ShotsSigns

    10th AND BROADWAY, Williamsburg

    by Kevin Walsh February 3, 2021
    by Kevin Walsh February 3, 2021 4 comments

    10th and Broadway in Williamsburg? You might think these signs would be found in the Union Square area, where East 10th and Broadway do intersect (at Grace Church, one of…

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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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  • One Shots

    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 6 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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