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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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  • Roads

    FISK AVENUE, Woodside

    by Kevin Walsh November 25, 2020
    by Kevin Walsh November 25, 2020 2 comments

    69th Street in Woodside and Maspeth hasn’t been known as Fisk Avenue for several decades…except on the 69th Street platform of the #7 Flushing Line el, where the ancient name…

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  • Walks

    WOODSIDE & SUNNYSIDE WALK

    by Kevin Walsh October 19, 2020
    by Kevin Walsh October 19, 2020 17 comments

    All was still normal on Saturday, March 14, 2020 as far as I was concerned, though during the previous week, coverage of the Covid-19 virus was suddenly ramped up to…

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  • One ShotsStreet LampsSubways & Trains

    WOODSIDE ENTRANCE

    by Kevin Walsh October 6, 2020
    by Kevin Walsh October 6, 2020 1 comment

    Today I was all set to write about Trimble Road, a little spit of a street running for one block along the Woodside Long Island Rail Road platform between 63rd…

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  • One ShotsSigns

    A PAIR OF EXCHANGES

    by Kevin Walsh October 5, 2020
    by Kevin Walsh October 5, 2020 16 comments

    There are quite a few ancient signs displaying former letter telephone exchanges around town used with dial rotary phones, which displayed letters as well as numbers; the first two characters…

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  • Roads

    HELLGATE FERRY ROAD, Part 2

    by Kevin Walsh September 27, 2020
    by Kevin Walsh September 27, 2020 4 comments

    Continued from Part 1 Restricted by the Covid crisis, or the Great Infection, In May and June, only camera foraging I did was in the neighborhoods surrounding my home in…

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