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    ROTARY CLUB SIGN, Woodhaven

    by Kevin Walsh June 7, 2021
    by Kevin Walsh June 7, 2021 6 comments

    Rotary International bills itself as an organization dedicated “to bring[ing] together business and professional leaders in order to provide humanitarian service and to advance goodwill and peace around the world.”…

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    WOODHAVEN CLOCK TOWER

    by Kevin Walsh May 5, 2021
    by Kevin Walsh May 5, 2021 9 comments

    Sorry, folks, this building is one of the symbols of Woodhaven, and I’m going to keep saying it’s in Woodhaven. On one of the historic Woodhaven pages in Facebook, some…

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  • Forgotten SlicesRoads

    95TH AVENUE

    by Kevin Walsh July 7, 2020
    by Kevin Walsh July 7, 2020 5 comments

    During the week I was scuttling around Floral Park, just south of Little Neck, testing out a healing sore calf and looking for some shade, since it was 95 degrees.…

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  • One Shots

    NEIR’S TAVERN REPRIEVE

    by Kevin Walsh January 9, 2020
    by Kevin Walsh January 9, 2020 9 comments

    Word arrived midweek that Woodhaven’s nearly two-century institution, Neir’s Taven, 88th Avenue and 78th Street, would close on January 12, 2020. I have spent many happy times here, and it’s…

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  • Subways & TrainsWalks

    TRACKING THE LIRR ROCKAWAY BRANCH: PART 2, FOREST PARK-WOODHAVEN-OZONE PARK

    by Kevin Walsh June 2, 2019
    by Kevin Walsh June 2, 2019 21 comments

    Continued from Part 1 Back in March 2000 I set out with a band of urban explorers that walked the old LIRR Rockaway Branch from Rego Park to Woodhaven. The…

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  • AdsOne Shots

    BULL DURHAM TOBACCO, Woodhaven 1999

    by Kevin Walsh March 4, 2019
    by Kevin Walsh March 4, 2019 4 comments

    “The Bull Durham brand … grew out of an incident in Durham, North Carolina that occurred at the close of the war. Soldiers from both sides raided a farmer’s tobacco…

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  • One Shots

    SCHMIDT’S CANDY, Woodhaven

    by Kevin Walsh October 3, 2018
    by Kevin Walsh October 3, 2018 0 comment

    There are a lot of interesting items from a Forgotten NY aspect scuffling around under the Jamaica Avenue el on Woodhaven, such as outmoded street lighting, hidden cemeteries a block…

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    CLEMENTE COURT, Woodhaven

    by Kevin Walsh July 10, 2018
    by Kevin Walsh July 10, 2018 11 comments

    Deep in the streets of Woodhaven are a couple of remnants of Union Course, the racetrack that dominated the area before it was fully developed and streets laid out. Woodhaven and…

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  • AlleysOne Shots

    CULLODEN AND DIGBY, Woodhaven

    by Kevin Walsh April 18, 2018
    by Kevin Walsh April 18, 2018 3 comments

    At first hearing, “Culloden and Digby” sounds like a heavily-advertised TV law firm, or perhaps a brand of Worcestershire sauce, but they are actually a pair of streets in Woodhaven…

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  • One ShotsStreet Lamps

    PFAFF & KENDALL, Woodhaven

    by Kevin Walsh April 2, 2018
    by Kevin Walsh April 2, 2018 8 comments

    I was lurching around Woodhaven recently, and as part of my immersive Forgotten New York experience, I check the bases of lampposts to see when they were installed. Most of…

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    RECAP: FORGOTTENTOUR #105: Woodhaven

    by Kevin Walsh October 31, 2017
    by Kevin Walsh October 31, 2017 0 comment

    FNY’s Saturday, June 18th, 2016 tour was a repeat of the 2015 Woodhaven tour with a slightly shortened and revised tour route, beginning on Forest Parkway where we took in…

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  • Street Scenes

    MIXED BAG Part 3

    by Kevin Walsh July 3, 2017
    by Kevin Walsh July 3, 2017 5 comments

    I had fun doing FNY’s second Mixed Bag page from two weeks ago, which featured photos taken in January 2017 on my IPhone, so I decided to do another one…

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