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    GHOST OF SHEA STADIUM, WOODSIDE

    by Kevin Walsh May 23, 2023
    by Kevin Walsh May 23, 2023 2 comments

    ONGOING renovations at the Long Island Rail Road Woodside complex (it was last re-done between 1995 and 1998 and requires an overhaul) have revealed a “To Shea Stadium” sign at…

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  • One Shots

    WINFIELD REFORMED CHURCH, Woodside

    by Kevin Walsh November 19, 2022
    by Kevin Walsh November 19, 2022 7 comments

    WINFIELD, Queens was situated roughly in the area within the following borders: Woodside Avenue to the north, Mount Zion Cemetery, Calamus Road (Avenue, today) and Maurice Avenue to the south, the New…

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  • Walks

    SUNNYSIDE STROLL

    by Kevin Walsh October 23, 2022
    by Kevin Walsh October 23, 2022 5 comments

    FOR reasons the doctors are still unsure about, I’m unable to walk more than a mile or two without pain; I hope to get a diagnosis and treatment sometime soon,…

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  • One Shots

    NEW ROLES FOR POLES

    by Kevin Walsh October 17, 2022
    by Kevin Walsh October 17, 2022 5 comments

    THOUGH I do a lot of history in Forgotten New York, it’s ultimately a site about infrastructure…I have been taking a keen interest in things like stoplights and lampposts since…

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  • One ShotsRoads

    LAUREL HILL BOULEVARD, Woodside

    by Kevin Walsh April 21, 2022
    by Kevin Walsh April 21, 2022 4 comments

    THERE’S a two-block stretch of Laurel Hill Boulevard between 65th Place and 67th Street independent of the BQE, and the block between 66th and 67th Streets actually has residences and…

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  • One ShotsSigns

    ECONOMY-SIZE STREET SIGNS

    by Kevin Walsh December 15, 2021
    by Kevin Walsh December 15, 2021 3 comments

    In September 2021 I was making my unsteady and furtive way down 34th Avenue from Woodside to Jackson Heights when I spotted this extra-large 69th Street sign. Hard to see…

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  • One Shots

    QUEENS BLVD. RAILROAD BRIDGE

    by Kevin Walsh October 19, 2021
    by Kevin Walsh October 19, 2021 5 comments

    I don’t think I’ve mentioned the magnificent stone bridge that takes the NY Connecting Railroad over Queens Boulevard in Woodside. The NYCR, constructed in 1917 when the Hell Gate Bridge…

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  • AlleysOne Shots

    THE MYSTERIOUS WELLS PLACE, Woodside

    by Kevin Walsh June 17, 2021
    by Kevin Walsh June 17, 2021 14 comments

    A lot of Queens posts this week…what can I say, that’s where I’ve been lately. Don’t worry, there’s plenty of material “in the can” for the four other boroughs which…

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  • Cemeteries

    MOORE-JACKSON CEMETERY 2021

    by Kevin Walsh May 13, 2021
    by Kevin Walsh May 13, 2021 2 comments

    I have mentioned the Moore-Jackson Cemetery before — it’s located in Deep Woodside, on 54th Street between 31st and 32nd Avenues. When the trees are leaved out it appears to…

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  • One Shots

    WHITE TOWER 2021, Woodside

    by Kevin Walsh March 24, 2021
    by Kevin Walsh March 24, 2021 14 comments

    I was shuffling down Northern Boulevard en route to the LIRR after picking up some lightbulbs at Home Depot, one of the highlights of my week so far, when I…

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  • One ShotsSignsSubways & Trains

    WHERE IS ROWAN STREET?

    by Kevin Walsh March 22, 2021
    by Kevin Walsh March 22, 2021 5 comments

    I’ve always wanted a job in the MTA Sign Shop in Crown Heights, Brooklyn. That’s where every sign that you see in the subways is produced. I’m unclear whether street…

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  • Subways & Trains

    WOODSIDE PLATFORM LAMPS

    by Kevin Walsh December 11, 2020
    by Kevin Walsh December 11, 2020 4 comments

    Lately I’ve started getting enthusiastic about subway and elevated platform lighting. (Yeah, I know no one else is, really.) Why not? They’re lampposts, too. In NYC there’s a plethora of…

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