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PARADISE ALLEY
by Kevin Walsh May 18, 2021. May 18, 2021. This bar named “Paradise Alley” on 150th Street and 41st Avenue in Murray Hill always sounded vaguely familiar to me. The name has a long pedigree, but I can’t put my finger on where it originated. “Paradise Alley” was the name of a theater piece in 1897. It was the name of a Broadway musicalLITTLE NECK INN
by Kevin Walsh April 2, 2021. April 2, 2021. The Little Neck Inn and I coexisted in the northeastern Queens neighborhood for about 4 or 5 years (I arrived in 2007) and yet, I never got in. One by one, neighborhood staples have disappeared since I arrived, such as the Scobee Diner, the OTB, and the Subway sandwich joint a few doors away. ENGINE 55, LITTLE ITALY ENGINE 55, Little Italy. by Kevin Walsh March 21, 2013. March 21, 2013. FDNY Engine 55 at 363 Broome Street near Mott is especially reconizable because of its large terra cotta identifying label across the top of the front entrance. The firehouse was designed by R. H. Robertson and finished in 1899.CLASON POINT, BRONX
This is the 57-acre Shorehaven community, set apart from the rest of southern Bronx by its wall and security guards. Between 1949 and 1986, this property was the Shore Haven Beach Club, a member-only resort for working-class Bronxites. In 1949, Mal Deitch and Joseph Goodstein transformed the defunct Clason Point Bathing and Amusement Park, into BENSONHURST ARCHIVES The heart of NEW UTRECHT. by Kevin Walsh February 10, 2010. by Kevin Walsh February 10, 2010 27 comments. On the second leg of my quick Bensonhurst trip, I wandered down 84th Street into the heart of ancient New Utrecht. Brooklyn, now co-terminous with Kings County, was once just one, albeit the most. Read more.BAY RIDGE, BROOKLYN
The destruction of a Bay Ridge farmhouse. Forgotten Fan BrooklynKid87 witnessed the demolition of this Civil-War era building in 2001 and documented its death by bulldozer.There is a standard-issue multi-family brick box in its place now. Gelston Avenue is one of Bay Ridge’s oldest named streets; it turns up on maps from the 1870s.This farmhouse was one of its last links to its rural period. LACKAWANNA TERMINAL, HOBOKEN, NJ The Lackawanna Tower is a 2007 reconstruction copied as closely as possible from the original tower that was demolished in the 1950s. Eat your heart out Penn Station: here is the interior of Hoboken’s Beaux-Arts Lackawanna Railroad terminal, designed by Kenneth Murchison in 1907. Though it is almost 110 years old, it was preceded on thissite
JAMAICA ESTATES ODDITIES JAMAICA ESTATES ODDITIES. by Kevin Walsh January 11, 2016. January 11, 2016. By SERGEY KADINSKY. Forgotten NY correspondent. Stockholm Street isn’t the only yellow-bricked road in Queens — a short stretch of Foothill Avenue at 193rd Street in Jamaica Estates boasts bricks, as well. There are also a couple of red-bricked roads in Jamaica, as MANHATTAN'S ANCIENT FIREHOUSES MANHATTAN’S ANCIENT FIREHOUSES. Firehouses have been in the news in 2003, as many have been closed or have had closing threatened by a cash strapped New York City, infuriating residents who fear inadequate protection from disaster as well as the sense of helplessness in the face of a seemingly uncaring bureaucracy. AN ALTERNATIVE VIEW OF NEW YORK | by Kevin Walsh May 26, 2021 8 comments. In Corona, there’s a street that runs between two railroads that’s named for a racetrack. National Street, running diagonally in the Corona street grid, is the community’s main shopping strip,. Read more. One Shots Subways &Trains.
PARADISE ALLEY
by Kevin Walsh May 18, 2021. May 18, 2021. This bar named “Paradise Alley” on 150th Street and 41st Avenue in Murray Hill always sounded vaguely familiar to me. The name has a long pedigree, but I can’t put my finger on where it originated. “Paradise Alley” was the name of a theater piece in 1897. It was the name of a Broadway musicalLITTLE NECK INN
by Kevin Walsh April 2, 2021. April 2, 2021. The Little Neck Inn and I coexisted in the northeastern Queens neighborhood for about 4 or 5 years (I arrived in 2007) and yet, I never got in. One by one, neighborhood staples have disappeared since I arrived, such as the Scobee Diner, the OTB, and the Subway sandwich joint a few doors away. ENGINE 55, LITTLE ITALY ENGINE 55, Little Italy. by Kevin Walsh March 21, 2013. March 21, 2013. FDNY Engine 55 at 363 Broome Street near Mott is especially reconizable because of its large terra cotta identifying label across the top of the front entrance. The firehouse was designed by R. H. Robertson and finished in 1899.CLASON POINT, BRONX
This is the 57-acre Shorehaven community, set apart from the rest of southern Bronx by its wall and security guards. Between 1949 and 1986, this property was the Shore Haven Beach Club, a member-only resort for working-class Bronxites. In 1949, Mal Deitch and Joseph Goodstein transformed the defunct Clason Point Bathing and Amusement Park, into BENSONHURST ARCHIVES The heart of NEW UTRECHT. by Kevin Walsh February 10, 2010. by Kevin Walsh February 10, 2010 27 comments. On the second leg of my quick Bensonhurst trip, I wandered down 84th Street into the heart of ancient New Utrecht. Brooklyn, now co-terminous with Kings County, was once just one, albeit the most. Read more.BAY RIDGE, BROOKLYN
The destruction of a Bay Ridge farmhouse. Forgotten Fan BrooklynKid87 witnessed the demolition of this Civil-War era building in 2001 and documented its death by bulldozer.There is a standard-issue multi-family brick box in its place now. Gelston Avenue is one of Bay Ridge’s oldest named streets; it turns up on maps from the 1870s.This farmhouse was one of its last links to its rural period. LACKAWANNA TERMINAL, HOBOKEN, NJ The Lackawanna Tower is a 2007 reconstruction copied as closely as possible from the original tower that was demolished in the 1950s. Eat your heart out Penn Station: here is the interior of Hoboken’s Beaux-Arts Lackawanna Railroad terminal, designed by Kenneth Murchison in 1907. Though it is almost 110 years old, it was preceded on thissite
JAMAICA ESTATES ODDITIES JAMAICA ESTATES ODDITIES. by Kevin Walsh January 11, 2016. January 11, 2016. By SERGEY KADINSKY. Forgotten NY correspondent. Stockholm Street isn’t the only yellow-bricked road in Queens — a short stretch of Foothill Avenue at 193rd Street in Jamaica Estates boasts bricks, as well. There are also a couple of red-bricked roads in Jamaica, as MANHATTAN'S ANCIENT FIREHOUSES MANHATTAN’S ANCIENT FIREHOUSES. Firehouses have been in the news in 2003, as many have been closed or have had closing threatened by a cash strapped New York City, infuriating residents who fear inadequate protection from disaster as well as the sense of helplessness in the face of a seemingly uncaring bureaucracy.ROSE STREET
Rose Street isn’t much of a street and most New Yorkers don’t know it exists. Currently, it serves as a connector between Gold and Frankfort Streets and Peeral and Madison; the latter than travels up the Lower East Side to Corlears Hook. GRAVESEND - FORGOTTEN NEW YORK Till recently, Gravesend, like adjoining Bensonhurst, was a mainly Italian neighborhood. There are still remnants of that legacy such as Marconi Square (the true inventor of the telephone) at Avenue U and 86th Street, and Dairy Maid, which produces pasta and Italian delicacies and features some impressive signage.ROTARY CLUB
Rotary International bills itself as an organization dedicated “to bring together business and professional leaders in order to provide humanitarian service and to advance goodwill and peace around the world.” The service organization was founded by Paul Harris in Chicago in 1905. Though I had thought the name had something to do with the motor industry, the name came about simplyPLAYLAND REMAINS
PLAYLAND REMAINS. by Kevin Walsh June 10, 2020. June 10, 2020. Rockaway Playland, the Rockaway Peninsula’s answer to Coney Island, was in business between 1928 (as an amusement park in the classic sense; various amusement parks had operated at Rockaway Beach Boulevard, the boardwalk and Beach 98th Street since 1902) and theearly 1980s.
SANDS STREET
The Sands Street that was. Sands Street was a lively strip whose now-vanished saloons and gambling dens catered to sailors and workers from the neighboring Brooklyn Navy Yard. The WPA Guide to New York City, written in 1939, describes it thusly: “Today Sands Streetcaters to
CLASSIC 86TH
CLASSIC 86th. by Kevin Walsh May 29, 2020. May 29, 2020. Saturday was a busy day in the Walsh household. The mornings called for a thorough dusting and vacuuming of the entire apartment at 8302 6th Avenue. The old man did the bulk of it, and my mother and I, when I was a bit older, pitched in to some degree (when I moved to my new place in theCONCRETE PLANT PARK
Concrete Plant Park, built along the Bronx River between 2004 and 2009 for about 10 million dollars (much of which was spent in removing petroleum-tainted soil from the site), runs on the west side of the Bronx River replacing what used to be a concrete batch mix plant between Westchester Avenue and Bruckner Boulevard.IRVING PLACE
THE GRAMERCY, Irving Place and East 18th Street. Most of Irving Place’s buildings were originally two to four-story walkup buildings but interspersed are apartment buildinsg, such as this one built in 1899. It has since been converted to luxury apartments. The buildingon the left is a
HIGH ISLAND, LONG ISLAND SOUND A clear view of High Island is seen from Orchard Beach. This is a small, uninhabited island northeast of City Island that is owned by CBS Radio; its most prominent features are a pair of radio transmission towers for CBS’ primary NYC properties, WCBS-AM 880 and SportsRadio 66 WFAN. Prior to 1961 it was home to a group of summerrental cottages.
WHITESTONE'S FAR NORTH Whitestone is the northernmost neighborhood in Queens, situated between Whitestone Bridge and Throgs Neck Bridge. Its shoreline is largely comprised of upper income tract mansions and high rise apartments. An important ferry landing prior to the construction of Whitestone Bridge, the community was served by the Long Island Railroad until 1932. AN ALTERNATIVE VIEW OF NEW YORK | by Kevin Walsh May 26, 2021 8 comments. In Corona, there’s a street that runs between two railroads that’s named for a racetrack. National Street, running diagonally in the Corona street grid, is the community’s main shopping strip,. Read more. One Shots Subways &Trains.
PARADISE ALLEY
by Kevin Walsh May 18, 2021. May 18, 2021. This bar named “Paradise Alley” on 150th Street and 41st Avenue in Murray Hill always sounded vaguely familiar to me. The name has a long pedigree, but I can’t put my finger on where it originated. “Paradise Alley” was the name of a theater piece in 1897. It was the name of a Broadway musicalLITTLE NECK INN
by Kevin Walsh April 2, 2021. April 2, 2021. The Little Neck Inn and I coexisted in the northeastern Queens neighborhood for about 4 or 5 years (I arrived in 2007) and yet, I never got in. One by one, neighborhood staples have disappeared since I arrived, such as the Scobee Diner, the OTB, and the Subway sandwich joint a few doors away.CONCRETE PLANT PARK
Concrete Plant Park, built along the Bronx River between 2004 and 2009 for about 10 million dollars (much of which was spent in removing petroleum-tainted soil from the site), runs on the west side of the Bronx River replacing what used to be a concrete batch mix plant between Westchester Avenue and Bruckner Boulevard. JAMAICA ESTATES ODDITIES JAMAICA ESTATES ODDITIES. by Kevin Walsh January 11, 2016. January 11, 2016. By SERGEY KADINSKY. Forgotten NY correspondent. Stockholm Street isn’t the only yellow-bricked road in Queens — a short stretch of Foothill Avenue at 193rd Street in Jamaica Estates boasts bricks, as well. There are also a couple of red-bricked roads in Jamaica, asBAY RIDGE, BROOKLYN
The destruction of a Bay Ridge farmhouse. Forgotten Fan BrooklynKid87 witnessed the demolition of this Civil-War era building in 2001 and documented its death by bulldozer.There is a standard-issue multi-family brick box in its place now. Gelston Avenue is one of Bay Ridge’s oldest named streets; it turns up on maps from the 1870s.This farmhouse was one of its last links to its rural period. LACKAWANNA TERMINAL, HOBOKEN, NJ The Lackawanna Tower is a 2007 reconstruction copied as closely as possible from the original tower that was demolished in the 1950s. Eat your heart out Penn Station: here is the interior of Hoboken’s Beaux-Arts Lackawanna Railroad terminal, designed by Kenneth Murchison in 1907. Though it is almost 110 years old, it was preceded on thissite
ENGINE 55, LITTLE ITALY ENGINE 55, Little Italy. by Kevin Walsh March 21, 2013. March 21, 2013. FDNY Engine 55 at 363 Broome Street near Mott is especially reconizable because of its large terra cotta identifying label across the top of the front entrance. The firehouse was designed by R. H. Robertson and finished in 1899. DEUCE (42ND STREET), MANHATTAN DEUCE (42nd STREET), Manhattan. While “The Deuce” (as its friends and foes knew West 42nd Street between 6th and 8th Avenues) has become the New 42 (more or less, a stretch of New York City that has become the place that tourists flock, or are herded to, there’s still a remnant, or two, of its former highs and lows to be found there and MANHATTAN'S ANCIENT FIREHOUSES MANHATTAN’S ANCIENT FIREHOUSES. Firehouses have been in the news in 2003, as many have been closed or have had closing threatened by a cash strapped New York City, infuriating residents who fear inadequate protection from disaster as well as the sense of helplessness in the face of a seemingly uncaring bureaucracy. AN ALTERNATIVE VIEW OF NEW YORK | by Kevin Walsh May 26, 2021 8 comments. In Corona, there’s a street that runs between two railroads that’s named for a racetrack. National Street, running diagonally in the Corona street grid, is the community’s main shopping strip,. Read more. One Shots Subways &Trains.
PARADISE ALLEY
by Kevin Walsh May 18, 2021. May 18, 2021. This bar named “Paradise Alley” on 150th Street and 41st Avenue in Murray Hill always sounded vaguely familiar to me. The name has a long pedigree, but I can’t put my finger on where it originated. “Paradise Alley” was the name of a theater piece in 1897. It was the name of a Broadway musicalLITTLE NECK INN
by Kevin Walsh April 2, 2021. April 2, 2021. The Little Neck Inn and I coexisted in the northeastern Queens neighborhood for about 4 or 5 years (I arrived in 2007) and yet, I never got in. One by one, neighborhood staples have disappeared since I arrived, such as the Scobee Diner, the OTB, and the Subway sandwich joint a few doors away.CONCRETE PLANT PARK
Concrete Plant Park, built along the Bronx River between 2004 and 2009 for about 10 million dollars (much of which was spent in removing petroleum-tainted soil from the site), runs on the west side of the Bronx River replacing what used to be a concrete batch mix plant between Westchester Avenue and Bruckner Boulevard. JAMAICA ESTATES ODDITIES JAMAICA ESTATES ODDITIES. by Kevin Walsh January 11, 2016. January 11, 2016. By SERGEY KADINSKY. Forgotten NY correspondent. Stockholm Street isn’t the only yellow-bricked road in Queens — a short stretch of Foothill Avenue at 193rd Street in Jamaica Estates boasts bricks, as well. There are also a couple of red-bricked roads in Jamaica, asBAY RIDGE, BROOKLYN
The destruction of a Bay Ridge farmhouse. Forgotten Fan BrooklynKid87 witnessed the demolition of this Civil-War era building in 2001 and documented its death by bulldozer.There is a standard-issue multi-family brick box in its place now. Gelston Avenue is one of Bay Ridge’s oldest named streets; it turns up on maps from the 1870s.This farmhouse was one of its last links to its rural period. LACKAWANNA TERMINAL, HOBOKEN, NJ The Lackawanna Tower is a 2007 reconstruction copied as closely as possible from the original tower that was demolished in the 1950s. Eat your heart out Penn Station: here is the interior of Hoboken’s Beaux-Arts Lackawanna Railroad terminal, designed by Kenneth Murchison in 1907. Though it is almost 110 years old, it was preceded on thissite
ENGINE 55, LITTLE ITALY ENGINE 55, Little Italy. by Kevin Walsh March 21, 2013. March 21, 2013. FDNY Engine 55 at 363 Broome Street near Mott is especially reconizable because of its large terra cotta identifying label across the top of the front entrance. The firehouse was designed by R. H. Robertson and finished in 1899. DEUCE (42ND STREET), MANHATTAN DEUCE (42nd STREET), Manhattan. While “The Deuce” (as its friends and foes knew West 42nd Street between 6th and 8th Avenues) has become the New 42 (more or less, a stretch of New York City that has become the place that tourists flock, or are herded to, there’s still a remnant, or two, of its former highs and lows to be found there and MANHATTAN'S ANCIENT FIREHOUSES MANHATTAN’S ANCIENT FIREHOUSES. Firehouses have been in the news in 2003, as many have been closed or have had closing threatened by a cash strapped New York City, infuriating residents who fear inadequate protection from disaster as well as the sense of helplessness in the face of a seemingly uncaring bureaucracy. GRAVESEND - FORGOTTEN NEW YORK Till recently, Gravesend, like adjoining Bensonhurst, was a mainly Italian neighborhood. There are still remnants of that legacy such as Marconi Square (the true inventor of the telephone) at Avenue U and 86th Street, and Dairy Maid, which produces pasta and Italian delicacies and features some impressive signage.ROTARY CLUB
Rotary International bills itself as an organization dedicated “to bring together business and professional leaders in order to provide humanitarian service and to advance goodwill and peace around the world.” The service organization was founded by Paul Harris in Chicago in 1905. Though I had thought the name had something to do with the motor industry, the name came about simplyRICHMONDTOWN
Continued from Part 1. Historic Richmondtown, or Richmond Town (both ways seem correct) sits near the geographic center of Staten Island, far from any major parkways or expressways, but at the confluence of three major roads: Richmond Road, which points east toward the ferry to Manhattan; Arthur Kill Road, whcih gets you west to Tottenville; and Richmond Hill Road, which climbsPLAYLAND REMAINS
PLAYLAND REMAINS. by Kevin Walsh June 10, 2020. June 10, 2020. Rockaway Playland, the Rockaway Peninsula’s answer to Coney Island, was in business between 1928 (as an amusement park in the classic sense; various amusement parks had operated at Rockaway Beach Boulevard, the boardwalk and Beach 98th Street since 1902) and theearly 1980s.
SANDS STREET
The Sands Street that was. Sands Street was a lively strip whose now-vanished saloons and gambling dens catered to sailors and workers from the neighboring Brooklyn Navy Yard. The WPA Guide to New York City, written in 1939, describes it thusly: “Today Sands Streetcaters to
IRVING PLACE
THE GRAMERCY, Irving Place and East 18th Street. Most of Irving Place’s buildings were originally two to four-story walkup buildings but interspersed are apartment buildinsg, such as this one built in 1899. It has since been converted to luxury apartments. The buildingon the left is a
DYRE AVENUE
DYRE AVENUE 2012. by Kevin Walsh May 14, 2021. May 14, 2021. When conceived, it was assumed that the former New York, Westchester and Boston RR would eventually reach Boston, but instead at its lengthiest, it ran from southern Mott Haven in the Bronx to two terminals in Westchester County, at White Plains and at Port Chester.RIDGEWOOD, QUEENS
RIDGEWOOD, Queens. by Kevin Walsh July 28, 2005. July 28, 2005. By CHRISTINA WILKINSON. Forgotten NY correspondent. DURING the 17th and 18th centuries, Dutch farmers settled Newtown and Bushwick on the western end of Long Island. One of these farmers, Paulus Van Der Ende, built a house in Newtown in 1710. The restored farmhouse is located at WHITESTONE'S FAR NORTH Whitestone is the northernmost neighborhood in Queens, situated between Whitestone Bridge and Throgs Neck Bridge. Its shoreline is largely comprised of upper income tract mansions and high rise apartments. An important ferry landing prior to the construction of Whitestone Bridge, the community was served by the Long Island Railroad until 1932. HIGH ISLAND, LONG ISLAND SOUND A clear view of High Island is seen from Orchard Beach. This is a small, uninhabited island northeast of City Island that is owned by CBS Radio; its most prominent features are a pair of radio transmission towers for CBS’ primary NYC properties, WCBS-AM 880 and SportsRadio 66 WFAN. Prior to 1961 it was home to a group of summerrental cottages.
AN ALTERNATIVE VIEW OF NEW YORK | by Kevin Walsh May 26, 2021 8 comments. In Corona, there’s a street that runs between two railroads that’s named for a racetrack. National Street, running diagonally in the Corona street grid, is the community’s main shopping strip,. Read more. One Shots Subways &Trains.
PARADISE ALLEY
by Kevin Walsh May 18, 2021. May 18, 2021. This bar named “Paradise Alley” on 150th Street and 41st Avenue in Murray Hill always sounded vaguely familiar to me. The name has a long pedigree, but I can’t put my finger on where it originated. “Paradise Alley” was the name of a theater piece in 1897. It was the name of a Broadway musicalLITTLE NECK INN
by Kevin Walsh April 2, 2021. April 2, 2021. The Little Neck Inn and I coexisted in the northeastern Queens neighborhood for about 4 or 5 years (I arrived in 2007) and yet, I never got in. One by one, neighborhood staples have disappeared since I arrived, such as the Scobee Diner, the OTB, and the Subway sandwich joint a few doors away.CONCRETE PLANT PARK
Concrete Plant Park, built along the Bronx River between 2004 and 2009 for about 10 million dollars (much of which was spent in removing petroleum-tainted soil from the site), runs on the west side of the Bronx River replacing what used to be a concrete batch mix plant between Westchester Avenue and Bruckner Boulevard. JAMAICA ESTATES ODDITIES JAMAICA ESTATES ODDITIES. by Kevin Walsh January 11, 2016. January 11, 2016. By SERGEY KADINSKY. Forgotten NY correspondent. Stockholm Street isn’t the only yellow-bricked road in Queens — a short stretch of Foothill Avenue at 193rd Street in Jamaica Estates boasts bricks, as well. There are also a couple of red-bricked roads in Jamaica, asBAY RIDGE, BROOKLYN
The destruction of a Bay Ridge farmhouse. Forgotten Fan BrooklynKid87 witnessed the demolition of this Civil-War era building in 2001 and documented its death by bulldozer.There is a standard-issue multi-family brick box in its place now. Gelston Avenue is one of Bay Ridge’s oldest named streets; it turns up on maps from the 1870s.This farmhouse was one of its last links to its rural period. LACKAWANNA TERMINAL, HOBOKEN, NJ The Lackawanna Tower is a 2007 reconstruction copied as closely as possible from the original tower that was demolished in the 1950s. Eat your heart out Penn Station: here is the interior of Hoboken’s Beaux-Arts Lackawanna Railroad terminal, designed by Kenneth Murchison in 1907. Though it is almost 110 years old, it was preceded on thissite
ENGINE 55, LITTLE ITALY ENGINE 55, Little Italy. by Kevin Walsh March 21, 2013. March 21, 2013. FDNY Engine 55 at 363 Broome Street near Mott is especially reconizable because of its large terra cotta identifying label across the top of the front entrance. The firehouse was designed by R. H. Robertson and finished in 1899. DEUCE (42ND STREET), MANHATTAN DEUCE (42nd STREET), Manhattan. While “The Deuce” (as its friends and foes knew West 42nd Street between 6th and 8th Avenues) has become the New 42 (more or less, a stretch of New York City that has become the place that tourists flock, or are herded to, there’s still a remnant, or two, of its former highs and lows to be found there and MANHATTAN'S ANCIENT FIREHOUSES MANHATTAN’S ANCIENT FIREHOUSES. Firehouses have been in the news in 2003, as many have been closed or have had closing threatened by a cash strapped New York City, infuriating residents who fear inadequate protection from disaster as well as the sense of helplessness in the face of a seemingly uncaring bureaucracy. AN ALTERNATIVE VIEW OF NEW YORK | by Kevin Walsh May 26, 2021 8 comments. In Corona, there’s a street that runs between two railroads that’s named for a racetrack. National Street, running diagonally in the Corona street grid, is the community’s main shopping strip,. Read more. One Shots Subways &Trains.
PARADISE ALLEY
by Kevin Walsh May 18, 2021. May 18, 2021. This bar named “Paradise Alley” on 150th Street and 41st Avenue in Murray Hill always sounded vaguely familiar to me. The name has a long pedigree, but I can’t put my finger on where it originated. “Paradise Alley” was the name of a theater piece in 1897. It was the name of a Broadway musicalLITTLE NECK INN
by Kevin Walsh April 2, 2021. April 2, 2021. The Little Neck Inn and I coexisted in the northeastern Queens neighborhood for about 4 or 5 years (I arrived in 2007) and yet, I never got in. One by one, neighborhood staples have disappeared since I arrived, such as the Scobee Diner, the OTB, and the Subway sandwich joint a few doors away.CONCRETE PLANT PARK
Concrete Plant Park, built along the Bronx River between 2004 and 2009 for about 10 million dollars (much of which was spent in removing petroleum-tainted soil from the site), runs on the west side of the Bronx River replacing what used to be a concrete batch mix plant between Westchester Avenue and Bruckner Boulevard. JAMAICA ESTATES ODDITIES JAMAICA ESTATES ODDITIES. by Kevin Walsh January 11, 2016. January 11, 2016. By SERGEY KADINSKY. Forgotten NY correspondent. Stockholm Street isn’t the only yellow-bricked road in Queens — a short stretch of Foothill Avenue at 193rd Street in Jamaica Estates boasts bricks, as well. There are also a couple of red-bricked roads in Jamaica, asBAY RIDGE, BROOKLYN
The destruction of a Bay Ridge farmhouse. Forgotten Fan BrooklynKid87 witnessed the demolition of this Civil-War era building in 2001 and documented its death by bulldozer.There is a standard-issue multi-family brick box in its place now. Gelston Avenue is one of Bay Ridge’s oldest named streets; it turns up on maps from the 1870s.This farmhouse was one of its last links to its rural period. LACKAWANNA TERMINAL, HOBOKEN, NJ The Lackawanna Tower is a 2007 reconstruction copied as closely as possible from the original tower that was demolished in the 1950s. Eat your heart out Penn Station: here is the interior of Hoboken’s Beaux-Arts Lackawanna Railroad terminal, designed by Kenneth Murchison in 1907. Though it is almost 110 years old, it was preceded on thissite
ENGINE 55, LITTLE ITALY ENGINE 55, Little Italy. by Kevin Walsh March 21, 2013. March 21, 2013. FDNY Engine 55 at 363 Broome Street near Mott is especially reconizable because of its large terra cotta identifying label across the top of the front entrance. The firehouse was designed by R. H. Robertson and finished in 1899. DEUCE (42ND STREET), MANHATTAN DEUCE (42nd STREET), Manhattan. While “The Deuce” (as its friends and foes knew West 42nd Street between 6th and 8th Avenues) has become the New 42 (more or less, a stretch of New York City that has become the place that tourists flock, or are herded to, there’s still a remnant, or two, of its former highs and lows to be found there and MANHATTAN'S ANCIENT FIREHOUSES MANHATTAN’S ANCIENT FIREHOUSES. Firehouses have been in the news in 2003, as many have been closed or have had closing threatened by a cash strapped New York City, infuriating residents who fear inadequate protection from disaster as well as the sense of helplessness in the face of a seemingly uncaring bureaucracy. GRAVESEND - FORGOTTEN NEW YORK Till recently, Gravesend, like adjoining Bensonhurst, was a mainly Italian neighborhood. There are still remnants of that legacy such as Marconi Square (the true inventor of the telephone) at Avenue U and 86th Street, and Dairy Maid, which produces pasta and Italian delicacies and features some impressive signage.ROTARY CLUB
Rotary International bills itself as an organization dedicated “to bring together business and professional leaders in order to provide humanitarian service and to advance goodwill and peace around the world.” The service organization was founded by Paul Harris in Chicago in 1905. Though I had thought the name had something to do with the motor industry, the name came about simplyRICHMONDTOWN
Continued from Part 1. Historic Richmondtown, or Richmond Town (both ways seem correct) sits near the geographic center of Staten Island, far from any major parkways or expressways, but at the confluence of three major roads: Richmond Road, which points east toward the ferry to Manhattan; Arthur Kill Road, whcih gets you west to Tottenville; and Richmond Hill Road, which climbsPLAYLAND REMAINS
PLAYLAND REMAINS. by Kevin Walsh June 10, 2020. June 10, 2020. Rockaway Playland, the Rockaway Peninsula’s answer to Coney Island, was in business between 1928 (as an amusement park in the classic sense; various amusement parks had operated at Rockaway Beach Boulevard, the boardwalk and Beach 98th Street since 1902) and theearly 1980s.
SANDS STREET
The Sands Street that was. Sands Street was a lively strip whose now-vanished saloons and gambling dens catered to sailors and workers from the neighboring Brooklyn Navy Yard. The WPA Guide to New York City, written in 1939, describes it thusly: “Today Sands Streetcaters to
IRVING PLACE
THE GRAMERCY, Irving Place and East 18th Street. Most of Irving Place’s buildings were originally two to four-story walkup buildings but interspersed are apartment buildinsg, such as this one built in 1899. It has since been converted to luxury apartments. The buildingon the left is a
DYRE AVENUE
DYRE AVENUE 2012. by Kevin Walsh May 14, 2021. May 14, 2021. When conceived, it was assumed that the former New York, Westchester and Boston RR would eventually reach Boston, but instead at its lengthiest, it ran from southern Mott Haven in the Bronx to two terminals in Westchester County, at White Plains and at Port Chester.RIDGEWOOD, QUEENS
RIDGEWOOD, Queens. by Kevin Walsh July 28, 2005. July 28, 2005. By CHRISTINA WILKINSON. Forgotten NY correspondent. DURING the 17th and 18th centuries, Dutch farmers settled Newtown and Bushwick on the western end of Long Island. One of these farmers, Paulus Van Der Ende, built a house in Newtown in 1710. The restored farmhouse is located at WHITESTONE'S FAR NORTH Whitestone is the northernmost neighborhood in Queens, situated between Whitestone Bridge and Throgs Neck Bridge. Its shoreline is largely comprised of upper income tract mansions and high rise apartments. An important ferry landing prior to the construction of Whitestone Bridge, the community was served by the Long Island Railroad until 1932. HIGH ISLAND, LONG ISLAND SOUND A clear view of High Island is seen from Orchard Beach. This is a small, uninhabited island northeast of City Island that is owned by CBS Radio; its most prominent features are a pair of radio transmission towers for CBS’ primary NYC properties, WCBS-AM 880 and SportsRadio 66 WFAN. Prior to 1961 it was home to a group of summerrental cottages.
AN ALTERNATIVE VIEW OF NEW YORK | by Kevin Walsh May 26, 2021 8 comments. In Corona, there’s a street that runs between two railroads that’s named for a racetrack. National Street, running diagonally in the Corona street grid, is the community’s main shopping strip,. Read more. One Shots Subways &Trains.
LITTLE NECK INN
by Kevin Walsh April 2, 2021. April 2, 2021. The Little Neck Inn and I coexisted in the northeastern Queens neighborhood for about 4 or 5 years (I arrived in 2007) and yet, I never got in. One by one, neighborhood staples have disappeared since I arrived, such as the Scobee Diner, the OTB, and the Subway sandwich joint a few doors away.PLAYLAND REMAINS
PLAYLAND REMAINS. by Kevin Walsh June 10, 2020. June 10, 2020. Rockaway Playland, the Rockaway Peninsula’s answer to Coney Island, was in business between 1928 (as an amusement park in the classic sense; various amusement parks had operated at Rockaway Beach Boulevard, the boardwalk and Beach 98th Street since 1902) and theearly 1980s.
BENSONHURST ARCHIVES The heart of NEW UTRECHT. by Kevin Walsh February 10, 2010. by Kevin Walsh February 10, 2010 27 comments. On the second leg of my quick Bensonhurst trip, I wandered down 84th Street into the heart of ancient New Utrecht. Brooklyn, now co-terminous with Kings County, was once just one, albeit the most. Read more. ENGINE 55, LITTLE ITALY ENGINE 55, Little Italy. by Kevin Walsh March 21, 2013. March 21, 2013. FDNY Engine 55 at 363 Broome Street near Mott is especially reconizable because of its large terra cotta identifying label across the top of the front entrance. The firehouse was designed by R. H. Robertson and finished in 1899.OZONE PARK ARCHIVES
TUTIE’S, Ozone Park. by Kevin Walsh April 25, 2017. by Kevin Walsh April 25, 2017 14 comments. Two for the price of one on Liberty Avenue at 88-17, with ads for a former local tavern, Tutie’s, and Garcia Grande Cigars. Forgotten Fan James Burke remembers Tutie’s. He writes: Tutie’s was. ENGINE 252, BUSHWICK Engine 52 opened for business in 1897. For 22 years the firehouse employed horse-drawn wagons for calls; mechanized equipment was adopted in 1919. The firehouse joined the FDNY in January 1898, after Brooklyn consolidated into Greater New York. A close look at the shields on either side of the “Engine 252” entablature will revealthe number 52.
PARK AVENUE'S HIDDEN HISTORY Funding the 51 medians from 46 th to 97 th Streets; the five medians between 34 th and 39 th, and the 19 medians from 14 th to 33 rd Streets isn’t cheap. This is where the conservancy groups step in. For its last 10 blocks, Carnegie Hill Neighbors picks up the tab and further south it is the Fund for Park Avenue, both of which plant the tulips, light the Christmas trees, and install LACKAWANNA TERMINAL, HOBOKEN, NJ The Lackawanna Tower is a 2007 reconstruction copied as closely as possible from the original tower that was demolished in the 1950s. Eat your heart out Penn Station: here is the interior of Hoboken’s Beaux-Arts Lackawanna Railroad terminal, designed by Kenneth Murchison in 1907. Though it is almost 110 years old, it was preceded on thissite
HIGH ISLAND, LONG ISLAND SOUND A clear view of High Island is seen from Orchard Beach. This is a small, uninhabited island northeast of City Island that is owned by CBS Radio; its most prominent features are a pair of radio transmission towers for CBS’ primary NYC properties, WCBS-AM 880 and SportsRadio 66 WFAN. Prior to 1961 it was home to a group of summerrental cottages.
AN ALTERNATIVE VIEW OF NEW YORK | by Kevin Walsh May 26, 2021 8 comments. In Corona, there’s a street that runs between two railroads that’s named for a racetrack. National Street, running diagonally in the Corona street grid, is the community’s main shopping strip,. Read more. One Shots Subways &Trains.
LITTLE NECK INN
by Kevin Walsh April 2, 2021. April 2, 2021. The Little Neck Inn and I coexisted in the northeastern Queens neighborhood for about 4 or 5 years (I arrived in 2007) and yet, I never got in. One by one, neighborhood staples have disappeared since I arrived, such as the Scobee Diner, the OTB, and the Subway sandwich joint a few doors away.PLAYLAND REMAINS
PLAYLAND REMAINS. by Kevin Walsh June 10, 2020. June 10, 2020. Rockaway Playland, the Rockaway Peninsula’s answer to Coney Island, was in business between 1928 (as an amusement park in the classic sense; various amusement parks had operated at Rockaway Beach Boulevard, the boardwalk and Beach 98th Street since 1902) and theearly 1980s.
BENSONHURST ARCHIVES The heart of NEW UTRECHT. by Kevin Walsh February 10, 2010. by Kevin Walsh February 10, 2010 27 comments. On the second leg of my quick Bensonhurst trip, I wandered down 84th Street into the heart of ancient New Utrecht. Brooklyn, now co-terminous with Kings County, was once just one, albeit the most. Read more. ENGINE 55, LITTLE ITALY ENGINE 55, Little Italy. by Kevin Walsh March 21, 2013. March 21, 2013. FDNY Engine 55 at 363 Broome Street near Mott is especially reconizable because of its large terra cotta identifying label across the top of the front entrance. The firehouse was designed by R. H. Robertson and finished in 1899.OZONE PARK ARCHIVES
TUTIE’S, Ozone Park. by Kevin Walsh April 25, 2017. by Kevin Walsh April 25, 2017 14 comments. Two for the price of one on Liberty Avenue at 88-17, with ads for a former local tavern, Tutie’s, and Garcia Grande Cigars. Forgotten Fan James Burke remembers Tutie’s. He writes: Tutie’s was. ENGINE 252, BUSHWICK Engine 52 opened for business in 1897. For 22 years the firehouse employed horse-drawn wagons for calls; mechanized equipment was adopted in 1919. The firehouse joined the FDNY in January 1898, after Brooklyn consolidated into Greater New York. A close look at the shields on either side of the “Engine 252” entablature will revealthe number 52.
PARK AVENUE'S HIDDEN HISTORY Funding the 51 medians from 46 th to 97 th Streets; the five medians between 34 th and 39 th, and the 19 medians from 14 th to 33 rd Streets isn’t cheap. This is where the conservancy groups step in. For its last 10 blocks, Carnegie Hill Neighbors picks up the tab and further south it is the Fund for Park Avenue, both of which plant the tulips, light the Christmas trees, and install LACKAWANNA TERMINAL, HOBOKEN, NJ The Lackawanna Tower is a 2007 reconstruction copied as closely as possible from the original tower that was demolished in the 1950s. Eat your heart out Penn Station: here is the interior of Hoboken’s Beaux-Arts Lackawanna Railroad terminal, designed by Kenneth Murchison in 1907. Though it is almost 110 years old, it was preceded on thissite
HIGH ISLAND, LONG ISLAND SOUND A clear view of High Island is seen from Orchard Beach. This is a small, uninhabited island northeast of City Island that is owned by CBS Radio; its most prominent features are a pair of radio transmission towers for CBS’ primary NYC properties, WCBS-AM 880 and SportsRadio 66 WFAN. Prior to 1961 it was home to a group of summerrental cottages.
GRAVESEND - FORGOTTEN NEW YORK Till recently, Gravesend, like adjoining Bensonhurst, was a mainly Italian neighborhood. There are still remnants of that legacy such as Marconi Square (the true inventor of the telephone) at Avenue U and 86th Street, and Dairy Maid, which produces pasta and Italian delicacies and features some impressive signage.ROTARY CLUB
Rotary International bills itself as an organization dedicated “to bring together business and professional leaders in order to provide humanitarian service and to advance goodwill and peace around the world.” The service organization was founded by Paul Harris in Chicago in 1905. Though I had thought the name had something to do with the motor industry, the name came about simplyRICHMONDTOWN
Continued from Part 1. Historic Richmondtown, or Richmond Town (both ways seem correct) sits near the geographic center of Staten Island, far from any major parkways or expressways, but at the confluence of three major roads: Richmond Road, which points east toward the ferry to Manhattan; Arthur Kill Road, whcih gets you west to Tottenville; and Richmond Hill Road, which climbsPARADISE ALLEY
by Kevin Walsh May 18, 2021. May 18, 2021. This bar named “Paradise Alley” on 150th Street and 41st Avenue in Murray Hill always sounded vaguely familiar to me. The name has a long pedigree, but I can’t put my finger on where it originated. “Paradise Alley” was the name of a theater piece in 1897. It was the name of a Broadway musical FOREST HILLS ARCHIVES FOREST HILLS OLIVE. by Kevin Walsh November 9, 2017. by Kevin Walsh November 9, 2017 5 comments. This is obviously not a recent photo; it’s from January 2009, after the stoplights had been removed from this Olive post at 110th Street and 69th Road in Forest Hills.Traffic.
CHARLOTTE STREET
Charlotte Street, a three-block thoroughfare running from Crotona Park east across Boston Road to Jennings Street and Minford Place, was briefly the best-known, and most infamous, street in the Bronx in the late 1970s. The young Quaker lass named Charlotte Leggett would never know that by marrying into the prominent Fox landowning family in PARK AVENUE'S HIDDEN HISTORY Funding the 51 medians from 46 th to 97 th Streets; the five medians between 34 th and 39 th, and the 19 medians from 14 th to 33 rd Streets isn’t cheap. This is where the conservancy groups step in. For its last 10 blocks, Carnegie Hill Neighbors picks up the tab and further south it is the Fund for Park Avenue, both of which plant the tulips, light the Christmas trees, and installRICHMOND HILL
The building is the present home of Global Christian Ministries. A group of Lutheran pastors in Brooklyn met in the early 1900s, interested in founding a congregation in Richmond Hill. St. John’s English Lutheran Church was founded in 1903, with the presentstructure at
WEEHAWKEN STREET, GREENWICH VILLAGE The 2nd oldest building on Weehawken Street also fronts on West Street and is known as both #8 Weehawken and #392-392 West Street. By many accounts it is the only building left over from the old Weehawken Market and one of the few wood-frame buildings left in Manhattan.COW PARADE, 2000
COW PARADE, 2000. by Kevin Walsh March 29, 2017. March 29, 2017. Things were a little different in 2000. Bill Clinton was in the White House while the presidential race was shaping up to be Bush vs. Gore. The economy was on an even keel and had been for most of the past 8 years. The largest scandal had been the Big Dog’s adventures with an AN ALTERNATIVE VIEW OF NEW YORK | by Kevin Walsh May 26, 2021 8 comments. In Corona, there’s a street that runs between two railroads that’s named for a racetrack. National Street, running diagonally in the Corona street grid, is the community’s main shopping strip,. Read more. One Shots Subways &Trains.
LITTLE NECK INN
by Kevin Walsh April 2, 2021. April 2, 2021. The Little Neck Inn and I coexisted in the northeastern Queens neighborhood for about 4 or 5 years (I arrived in 2007) and yet, I never got in. One by one, neighborhood staples have disappeared since I arrived, such as the Scobee Diner, the OTB, and the Subway sandwich joint a few doors away.PLAYLAND REMAINS
PLAYLAND REMAINS. by Kevin Walsh June 10, 2020. June 10, 2020. Rockaway Playland, the Rockaway Peninsula’s answer to Coney Island, was in business between 1928 (as an amusement park in the classic sense; various amusement parks had operated at Rockaway Beach Boulevard, the boardwalk and Beach 98th Street since 1902) and theearly 1980s.
BENSONHURST ARCHIVES The heart of NEW UTRECHT. by Kevin Walsh February 10, 2010. by Kevin Walsh February 10, 2010 27 comments. On the second leg of my quick Bensonhurst trip, I wandered down 84th Street into the heart of ancient New Utrecht. Brooklyn, now co-terminous with Kings County, was once just one, albeit the most. Read more. ENGINE 55, LITTLE ITALY ENGINE 55, Little Italy. by Kevin Walsh March 21, 2013. March 21, 2013. FDNY Engine 55 at 363 Broome Street near Mott is especially reconizable because of its large terra cotta identifying label across the top of the front entrance. The firehouse was designed by R. H. Robertson and finished in 1899.OZONE PARK ARCHIVES
TUTIE’S, Ozone Park. by Kevin Walsh April 25, 2017. by Kevin Walsh April 25, 2017 14 comments. Two for the price of one on Liberty Avenue at 88-17, with ads for a former local tavern, Tutie’s, and Garcia Grande Cigars. Forgotten Fan James Burke remembers Tutie’s. He writes: Tutie’s was. ENGINE 252, BUSHWICK Engine 52 opened for business in 1897. For 22 years the firehouse employed horse-drawn wagons for calls; mechanized equipment was adopted in 1919. The firehouse joined the FDNY in January 1898, after Brooklyn consolidated into Greater New York. A close look at the shields on either side of the “Engine 252” entablature will revealthe number 52.
PARK AVENUE'S HIDDEN HISTORY Funding the 51 medians from 46 th to 97 th Streets; the five medians between 34 th and 39 th, and the 19 medians from 14 th to 33 rd Streets isn’t cheap. This is where the conservancy groups step in. For its last 10 blocks, Carnegie Hill Neighbors picks up the tab and further south it is the Fund for Park Avenue, both of which plant the tulips, light the Christmas trees, and install LACKAWANNA TERMINAL, HOBOKEN, NJ The Lackawanna Tower is a 2007 reconstruction copied as closely as possible from the original tower that was demolished in the 1950s. Eat your heart out Penn Station: here is the interior of Hoboken’s Beaux-Arts Lackawanna Railroad terminal, designed by Kenneth Murchison in 1907. Though it is almost 110 years old, it was preceded on thissite
HIGH ISLAND, LONG ISLAND SOUND A clear view of High Island is seen from Orchard Beach. This is a small, uninhabited island northeast of City Island that is owned by CBS Radio; its most prominent features are a pair of radio transmission towers for CBS’ primary NYC properties, WCBS-AM 880 and SportsRadio 66 WFAN. Prior to 1961 it was home to a group of summerrental cottages.
AN ALTERNATIVE VIEW OF NEW YORK | by Kevin Walsh May 26, 2021 8 comments. In Corona, there’s a street that runs between two railroads that’s named for a racetrack. National Street, running diagonally in the Corona street grid, is the community’s main shopping strip,. Read more. One Shots Subways &Trains.
LITTLE NECK INN
by Kevin Walsh April 2, 2021. April 2, 2021. The Little Neck Inn and I coexisted in the northeastern Queens neighborhood for about 4 or 5 years (I arrived in 2007) and yet, I never got in. One by one, neighborhood staples have disappeared since I arrived, such as the Scobee Diner, the OTB, and the Subway sandwich joint a few doors away.PLAYLAND REMAINS
PLAYLAND REMAINS. by Kevin Walsh June 10, 2020. June 10, 2020. Rockaway Playland, the Rockaway Peninsula’s answer to Coney Island, was in business between 1928 (as an amusement park in the classic sense; various amusement parks had operated at Rockaway Beach Boulevard, the boardwalk and Beach 98th Street since 1902) and theearly 1980s.
BENSONHURST ARCHIVES The heart of NEW UTRECHT. by Kevin Walsh February 10, 2010. by Kevin Walsh February 10, 2010 27 comments. On the second leg of my quick Bensonhurst trip, I wandered down 84th Street into the heart of ancient New Utrecht. Brooklyn, now co-terminous with Kings County, was once just one, albeit the most. Read more. ENGINE 55, LITTLE ITALY ENGINE 55, Little Italy. by Kevin Walsh March 21, 2013. March 21, 2013. FDNY Engine 55 at 363 Broome Street near Mott is especially reconizable because of its large terra cotta identifying label across the top of the front entrance. The firehouse was designed by R. H. Robertson and finished in 1899.OZONE PARK ARCHIVES
TUTIE’S, Ozone Park. by Kevin Walsh April 25, 2017. by Kevin Walsh April 25, 2017 14 comments. Two for the price of one on Liberty Avenue at 88-17, with ads for a former local tavern, Tutie’s, and Garcia Grande Cigars. Forgotten Fan James Burke remembers Tutie’s. He writes: Tutie’s was. ENGINE 252, BUSHWICK Engine 52 opened for business in 1897. For 22 years the firehouse employed horse-drawn wagons for calls; mechanized equipment was adopted in 1919. The firehouse joined the FDNY in January 1898, after Brooklyn consolidated into Greater New York. A close look at the shields on either side of the “Engine 252” entablature will revealthe number 52.
PARK AVENUE'S HIDDEN HISTORY Funding the 51 medians from 46 th to 97 th Streets; the five medians between 34 th and 39 th, and the 19 medians from 14 th to 33 rd Streets isn’t cheap. This is where the conservancy groups step in. For its last 10 blocks, Carnegie Hill Neighbors picks up the tab and further south it is the Fund for Park Avenue, both of which plant the tulips, light the Christmas trees, and install LACKAWANNA TERMINAL, HOBOKEN, NJ The Lackawanna Tower is a 2007 reconstruction copied as closely as possible from the original tower that was demolished in the 1950s. Eat your heart out Penn Station: here is the interior of Hoboken’s Beaux-Arts Lackawanna Railroad terminal, designed by Kenneth Murchison in 1907. Though it is almost 110 years old, it was preceded on thissite
HIGH ISLAND, LONG ISLAND SOUND A clear view of High Island is seen from Orchard Beach. This is a small, uninhabited island northeast of City Island that is owned by CBS Radio; its most prominent features are a pair of radio transmission towers for CBS’ primary NYC properties, WCBS-AM 880 and SportsRadio 66 WFAN. Prior to 1961 it was home to a group of summerrental cottages.
GRAVESEND - FORGOTTEN NEW YORK Till recently, Gravesend, like adjoining Bensonhurst, was a mainly Italian neighborhood. There are still remnants of that legacy such as Marconi Square (the true inventor of the telephone) at Avenue U and 86th Street, and Dairy Maid, which produces pasta and Italian delicacies and features some impressive signage.ROTARY CLUB
Rotary International bills itself as an organization dedicated “to bring together business and professional leaders in order to provide humanitarian service and to advance goodwill and peace around the world.” The service organization was founded by Paul Harris in Chicago in 1905. Though I had thought the name had something to do with the motor industry, the name came about simplyRICHMONDTOWN
Continued from Part 1. Historic Richmondtown, or Richmond Town (both ways seem correct) sits near the geographic center of Staten Island, far from any major parkways or expressways, but at the confluence of three major roads: Richmond Road, which points east toward the ferry to Manhattan; Arthur Kill Road, whcih gets you west to Tottenville; and Richmond Hill Road, which climbsPARADISE ALLEY
by Kevin Walsh May 18, 2021. May 18, 2021. This bar named “Paradise Alley” on 150th Street and 41st Avenue in Murray Hill always sounded vaguely familiar to me. The name has a long pedigree, but I can’t put my finger on where it originated. “Paradise Alley” was the name of a theater piece in 1897. It was the name of a Broadway musical FOREST HILLS ARCHIVES FOREST HILLS OLIVE. by Kevin Walsh November 9, 2017. by Kevin Walsh November 9, 2017 5 comments. This is obviously not a recent photo; it’s from January 2009, after the stoplights had been removed from this Olive post at 110th Street and 69th Road in Forest Hills.Traffic.
CHARLOTTE STREET
Charlotte Street, a three-block thoroughfare running from Crotona Park east across Boston Road to Jennings Street and Minford Place, was briefly the best-known, and most infamous, street in the Bronx in the late 1970s. The young Quaker lass named Charlotte Leggett would never know that by marrying into the prominent Fox landowning family in PARK AVENUE'S HIDDEN HISTORY Funding the 51 medians from 46 th to 97 th Streets; the five medians between 34 th and 39 th, and the 19 medians from 14 th to 33 rd Streets isn’t cheap. This is where the conservancy groups step in. For its last 10 blocks, Carnegie Hill Neighbors picks up the tab and further south it is the Fund for Park Avenue, both of which plant the tulips, light the Christmas trees, and installRICHMOND HILL
The building is the present home of Global Christian Ministries. A group of Lutheran pastors in Brooklyn met in the early 1900s, interested in founding a congregation in Richmond Hill. St. John’s English Lutheran Church was founded in 1903, with the presentstructure at
WEEHAWKEN STREET, GREENWICH VILLAGE The 2nd oldest building on Weehawken Street also fronts on West Street and is known as both #8 Weehawken and #392-392 West Street. By many accounts it is the only building left over from the old Weehawken Market and one of the few wood-frame buildings left in Manhattan.COW PARADE, 2000
COW PARADE, 2000. by Kevin Walsh March 29, 2017. March 29, 2017. Things were a little different in 2000. Bill Clinton was in the White House while the presidential race was shaping up to be Bush vs. Gore. The economy was on an even keel and had been for most of the past 8 years. The largest scandal had been the Big Dog’s adventures with an AN ALTERNATIVE VIEW OF NEW YORK | by Kevin Walsh May 26, 2021 8 comments. In Corona, there’s a street that runs between two railroads that’s named for a racetrack. National Street, running diagonally in the Corona street grid, is the community’s main shopping strip,. Read more. One Shots Subways &Trains.
ENGINE 55, LITTLE ITALY ENGINE 55, Little Italy. by Kevin Walsh March 21, 2013. March 21, 2013. FDNY Engine 55 at 363 Broome Street near Mott is especially reconizable because of its large terra cotta identifying label across the top of the front entrance. The firehouse was designed by R. H. Robertson and finished in 1899.OZONE PARK ARCHIVES
TUTIE’S, Ozone Park. by Kevin Walsh April 25, 2017. by Kevin Walsh April 25, 2017 14 comments. Two for the price of one on Liberty Avenue at 88-17, with ads for a former local tavern, Tutie’s, and Garcia Grande Cigars. Forgotten Fan James Burke remembers Tutie’s. He writes: Tutie’s was. JANE STREET, WEST VILLAGE Jane Street, West 4th Street, and 8th Avenue is another of Greenwich Village’s multi-angled intersections. 8th Avenue was extended south from West 14th to Hudson Street in the 1800s. Li-Lac Chocolates, at #40 8th Avenue and Jane Street, was founded in 1923 and claims to be NYC’s oldest chocolatier. However, it wasn’t always at this SPUYTEN DUYVIL IN THE DETAILS Manhattan and Spuyten Duyvil are bridged by the tolled Henry Hudson Bridge that carries the similarly-named Parkway, by the Amtrak swing railroad bridge (probably NYC’s busiest swing bridge; the Harlem is a busy waterway) and by the Broadway Bridge, that connects Manhattan withManhattan, carrying the IRT elevated from Inwood to Marble Hill and beyond to Van Cortlandt Park. CONEY'S LAST BATHHOUSE CONEY’S LAST BATHHOUSE. On the windswept block of West 24 th Street between Surf Avenue and the Riegelmann Boardwalk in Coney Island stands the Parks Department’s Coney Island Garage and Dispatcher’s Office. The building appears worn from decades of battering by storms but its thick concrete walls give it the look of something military.EASTCHESTER, BRONX
Eastchester is a neighborhood in the northeast Bronx that actually used to belong to Westchester County and didn’t become a part of New York City until 1895. It’s a quiet neighborhood of one and two family homes, a few apartment buildings and massive Co-Op City, and some of the ugliest junkyards you could ever hope for. CATHEDRAL PREP, BROOKLYN Cathedral Prep, 555 Washington Avenue on the border of Clinton Hill and Bedford-Stuyvesant, is another matter; I have always looked back on it with fondness. I graduated in 1975 in the middle of a class of 35. It’s a magnificent Flemish Gothic pile at Washington and Atlantic Avenues, festooned with concrete crosses, gargoyles and twoFLETCHER'S CASTORIA
FLETCHER’S CASTORIA. by Kevin Walsh May 11, 1998. May 11, 1998. Ads for this children’s stomach remedy can be found all over the five boroughs. Most date back to the Teens or Twenties. The now-vanished Third Avenue El is at right. Charles H. Fletcher began selling his Castoria, a mild stomach remedy for children, in 1871. PELHAM BAY PART 2, BRONX PELHAM BAY PART 2, Bronx. by Kevin Walsh July 18, 2010. July 18, 2010. CONTINUED FROM PART 1. Back in June I was dazedly puttering around the Middletown and Pelham Bay neighborhoods in the northeast Bronx, the kinds of New York City areas the AAA Guide or Time Out New York choose to ignore. Yet, thousands of people live and work there AN ALTERNATIVE VIEW OF NEW YORK | by Kevin Walsh May 26, 2021 8 comments. In Corona, there’s a street that runs between two railroads that’s named for a racetrack. National Street, running diagonally in the Corona street grid, is the community’s main shopping strip,. Read more. One Shots Subways &Trains.
ENGINE 55, LITTLE ITALY ENGINE 55, Little Italy. by Kevin Walsh March 21, 2013. March 21, 2013. FDNY Engine 55 at 363 Broome Street near Mott is especially reconizable because of its large terra cotta identifying label across the top of the front entrance. The firehouse was designed by R. H. Robertson and finished in 1899.OZONE PARK ARCHIVES
TUTIE’S, Ozone Park. by Kevin Walsh April 25, 2017. by Kevin Walsh April 25, 2017 14 comments. Two for the price of one on Liberty Avenue at 88-17, with ads for a former local tavern, Tutie’s, and Garcia Grande Cigars. Forgotten Fan James Burke remembers Tutie’s. He writes: Tutie’s was. JANE STREET, WEST VILLAGE Jane Street, West 4th Street, and 8th Avenue is another of Greenwich Village’s multi-angled intersections. 8th Avenue was extended south from West 14th to Hudson Street in the 1800s. Li-Lac Chocolates, at #40 8th Avenue and Jane Street, was founded in 1923 and claims to be NYC’s oldest chocolatier. However, it wasn’t always at this SPUYTEN DUYVIL IN THE DETAILS Manhattan and Spuyten Duyvil are bridged by the tolled Henry Hudson Bridge that carries the similarly-named Parkway, by the Amtrak swing railroad bridge (probably NYC’s busiest swing bridge; the Harlem is a busy waterway) and by the Broadway Bridge, that connects Manhattan withManhattan, carrying the IRT elevated from Inwood to Marble Hill and beyond to Van Cortlandt Park. CONEY'S LAST BATHHOUSE CONEY’S LAST BATHHOUSE. On the windswept block of West 24 th Street between Surf Avenue and the Riegelmann Boardwalk in Coney Island stands the Parks Department’s Coney Island Garage and Dispatcher’s Office. The building appears worn from decades of battering by storms but its thick concrete walls give it the look of something military.EASTCHESTER, BRONX
Eastchester is a neighborhood in the northeast Bronx that actually used to belong to Westchester County and didn’t become a part of New York City until 1895. It’s a quiet neighborhood of one and two family homes, a few apartment buildings and massive Co-Op City, and some of the ugliest junkyards you could ever hope for. CATHEDRAL PREP, BROOKLYN Cathedral Prep, 555 Washington Avenue on the border of Clinton Hill and Bedford-Stuyvesant, is another matter; I have always looked back on it with fondness. I graduated in 1975 in the middle of a class of 35. It’s a magnificent Flemish Gothic pile at Washington and Atlantic Avenues, festooned with concrete crosses, gargoyles and twoFLETCHER'S CASTORIA
FLETCHER’S CASTORIA. by Kevin Walsh May 11, 1998. May 11, 1998. Ads for this children’s stomach remedy can be found all over the five boroughs. Most date back to the Teens or Twenties. The now-vanished Third Avenue El is at right. Charles H. Fletcher began selling his Castoria, a mild stomach remedy for children, in 1871. PELHAM BAY PART 2, BRONX PELHAM BAY PART 2, Bronx. by Kevin Walsh July 18, 2010. July 18, 2010. CONTINUED FROM PART 1. Back in June I was dazedly puttering around the Middletown and Pelham Bay neighborhoods in the northeast Bronx, the kinds of New York City areas the AAA Guide or Time Out New York choose to ignore. Yet, thousands of people live and work thereROTARY CLUB
Rotary International bills itself as an organization dedicated “to bring together business and professional leaders in order to provide humanitarian service and to advance goodwill and peace around the world.” The service organization was founded by Paul Harris in Chicago in 1905. Though I had thought the name had something to do with the motor industry, the name came about simplyRICHMONDTOWN
Continued from Part 1. Historic Richmondtown, or Richmond Town (both ways seem correct) sits near the geographic center of Staten Island, far from any major parkways or expressways, but at the confluence of three major roads: Richmond Road, which points east toward the ferry to Manhattan; Arthur Kill Road, whcih gets you west to Tottenville; and Richmond Hill Road, which climbs GREENWICH VILLAGE, MANHATTAN Let’s take a brief look at the Village, Forgotten-style. We’ll begin with a triangle on a sidewalk. This is the oldest house in Greenwich Village, at the corner of 77 Bedford Street and Commerce Street. Known as the Isaacs-Hendricks House, it was built in 1799 (before most of the Village streets had been laid out), although largesections
FORMER STATIONHOUSES The former 75th Precinct building, a small fortress on Liberty and Miller Avenues in East New York, served a second stint beginning in the 70s as the People’s First Baptist Church (when it probably acquired its stained glass in the windows).But the church also had several gargoyles and green men – pagan symbols anathema to a Christian church. It is presently unoccupied; can it survive muchQUEENS 1930S
QUEENS 1930s. by Kevin Walsh May 19, 2019. May 19, 2019. I’ve begun to think about “stuff” lately. Forgotten New York celebrated its 20th anniversary this year, and I didn’t start on it until 1998, when I was 40 years old. This was just a few years after the World Wide Web started getting really popular; had the internet been aroundin
NORTH ASTORIA, QUEENS, PART 2 A short street spanning the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway formerly called 26th Avenue was renamed Bulova Avenue about 40 years ago to honor Bulova Watch, which is headquartered here.The company was formed in 1875 by Czech immigrant Joseph Bulova (1851-1936). The company has had numerous innovations over the years: first national radio commercial (1926), the first TV commercial THE RUINS OF ROSSVILLE The Rossville Boatyard. Vessels from all decades of the 20th Century lie, not exactly in state, but in a state of decomposition and rust at this former boatyard at Arthur Kill Road and Rossville Avenue. Most are tugs or cargo ships. The former piers have collapsed and are for the most part impassible, which makes them a magnet for daredevil ENGINE 252, BUSHWICK Engine 52 opened for business in 1897. For 22 years the firehouse employed horse-drawn wagons for calls; mechanized equipment was adopted in 1919. The firehouse joined the FDNY in January 1898, after Brooklyn consolidated into Greater New York. A close look at the shields on either side of the “Engine 252” entablature will revealthe number 52.
COW PARADE, 2000
COW PARADE, 2000. by Kevin Walsh March 29, 2017. March 29, 2017. Things were a little different in 2000. Bill Clinton was in the White House while the presidential race was shaping up to be Bush vs. Gore. The economy was on an even keel and had been for most of the past 8 years. The largest scandal had been the Big Dog’s adventures with an WOODSIDE, QUEENS, PART 1 WOODSIDE, Queens, Part 1. IN THE 17th and 18th centuries, the area known today as Woodside was filled with swamps, meadows, ponds and forests. A few colonial roads leading from the area’s waterways were forged through by those on their way to better places. A small number of brave souls decided to settle along the way. AN ALTERNATIVE VIEW OF NEW YORK | by Kevin Walsh May 26, 2021 8 comments. In Corona, there’s a street that runs between two railroads that’s named for a racetrack. National Street, running diagonally in the Corona street grid, is the community’s main shopping strip,. Read more. One Shots Subways &Trains.
ENGINE 55, LITTLE ITALY ENGINE 55, Little Italy. by Kevin Walsh March 21, 2013. March 21, 2013. FDNY Engine 55 at 363 Broome Street near Mott is especially reconizable because of its large terra cotta identifying label across the top of the front entrance. The firehouse was designed by R. H. Robertson and finished in 1899.OZONE PARK ARCHIVES
TUTIE’S, Ozone Park. by Kevin Walsh April 25, 2017. by Kevin Walsh April 25, 2017 14 comments. Two for the price of one on Liberty Avenue at 88-17, with ads for a former local tavern, Tutie’s, and Garcia Grande Cigars. Forgotten Fan James Burke remembers Tutie’s. He writes: Tutie’s was. JANE STREET, WEST VILLAGE Jane Street, West 4th Street, and 8th Avenue is another of Greenwich Village’s multi-angled intersections. 8th Avenue was extended south from West 14th to Hudson Street in the 1800s. Li-Lac Chocolates, at #40 8th Avenue and Jane Street, was founded in 1923 and claims to be NYC’s oldest chocolatier. However, it wasn’t always at this SPUYTEN DUYVIL IN THE DETAILS Manhattan and Spuyten Duyvil are bridged by the tolled Henry Hudson Bridge that carries the similarly-named Parkway, by the Amtrak swing railroad bridge (probably NYC’s busiest swing bridge; the Harlem is a busy waterway) and by the Broadway Bridge, that connects Manhattan withManhattan, carrying the IRT elevated from Inwood to Marble Hill and beyond to Van Cortlandt Park. CONEY'S LAST BATHHOUSE CONEY’S LAST BATHHOUSE. On the windswept block of West 24 th Street between Surf Avenue and the Riegelmann Boardwalk in Coney Island stands the Parks Department’s Coney Island Garage and Dispatcher’s Office. The building appears worn from decades of battering by storms but its thick concrete walls give it the look of something military.EASTCHESTER, BRONX
Eastchester is a neighborhood in the northeast Bronx that actually used to belong to Westchester County and didn’t become a part of New York City until 1895. It’s a quiet neighborhood of one and two family homes, a few apartment buildings and massive Co-Op City, and some of the ugliest junkyards you could ever hope for. CATHEDRAL PREP, BROOKLYN Cathedral Prep, 555 Washington Avenue on the border of Clinton Hill and Bedford-Stuyvesant, is another matter; I have always looked back on it with fondness. I graduated in 1975 in the middle of a class of 35. It’s a magnificent Flemish Gothic pile at Washington and Atlantic Avenues, festooned with concrete crosses, gargoyles and twoFLETCHER'S CASTORIA
FLETCHER’S CASTORIA. by Kevin Walsh May 11, 1998. May 11, 1998. Ads for this children’s stomach remedy can be found all over the five boroughs. Most date back to the Teens or Twenties. The now-vanished Third Avenue El is at right. Charles H. Fletcher began selling his Castoria, a mild stomach remedy for children, in 1871. PELHAM BAY PART 2, BRONX PELHAM BAY PART 2, Bronx. by Kevin Walsh July 18, 2010. July 18, 2010. CONTINUED FROM PART 1. Back in June I was dazedly puttering around the Middletown and Pelham Bay neighborhoods in the northeast Bronx, the kinds of New York City areas the AAA Guide or Time Out New York choose to ignore. Yet, thousands of people live and work there AN ALTERNATIVE VIEW OF NEW YORK | by Kevin Walsh May 26, 2021 8 comments. In Corona, there’s a street that runs between two railroads that’s named for a racetrack. National Street, running diagonally in the Corona street grid, is the community’s main shopping strip,. Read more. One Shots Subways &Trains.
ENGINE 55, LITTLE ITALY ENGINE 55, Little Italy. by Kevin Walsh March 21, 2013. March 21, 2013. FDNY Engine 55 at 363 Broome Street near Mott is especially reconizable because of its large terra cotta identifying label across the top of the front entrance. The firehouse was designed by R. H. Robertson and finished in 1899.OZONE PARK ARCHIVES
TUTIE’S, Ozone Park. by Kevin Walsh April 25, 2017. by Kevin Walsh April 25, 2017 14 comments. Two for the price of one on Liberty Avenue at 88-17, with ads for a former local tavern, Tutie’s, and Garcia Grande Cigars. Forgotten Fan James Burke remembers Tutie’s. He writes: Tutie’s was. JANE STREET, WEST VILLAGE Jane Street, West 4th Street, and 8th Avenue is another of Greenwich Village’s multi-angled intersections. 8th Avenue was extended south from West 14th to Hudson Street in the 1800s. Li-Lac Chocolates, at #40 8th Avenue and Jane Street, was founded in 1923 and claims to be NYC’s oldest chocolatier. However, it wasn’t always at this SPUYTEN DUYVIL IN THE DETAILS Manhattan and Spuyten Duyvil are bridged by the tolled Henry Hudson Bridge that carries the similarly-named Parkway, by the Amtrak swing railroad bridge (probably NYC’s busiest swing bridge; the Harlem is a busy waterway) and by the Broadway Bridge, that connects Manhattan withManhattan, carrying the IRT elevated from Inwood to Marble Hill and beyond to Van Cortlandt Park. CONEY'S LAST BATHHOUSE CONEY’S LAST BATHHOUSE. On the windswept block of West 24 th Street between Surf Avenue and the Riegelmann Boardwalk in Coney Island stands the Parks Department’s Coney Island Garage and Dispatcher’s Office. The building appears worn from decades of battering by storms but its thick concrete walls give it the look of something military.EASTCHESTER, BRONX
Eastchester is a neighborhood in the northeast Bronx that actually used to belong to Westchester County and didn’t become a part of New York City until 1895. It’s a quiet neighborhood of one and two family homes, a few apartment buildings and massive Co-Op City, and some of the ugliest junkyards you could ever hope for. CATHEDRAL PREP, BROOKLYN Cathedral Prep, 555 Washington Avenue on the border of Clinton Hill and Bedford-Stuyvesant, is another matter; I have always looked back on it with fondness. I graduated in 1975 in the middle of a class of 35. It’s a magnificent Flemish Gothic pile at Washington and Atlantic Avenues, festooned with concrete crosses, gargoyles and twoFLETCHER'S CASTORIA
FLETCHER’S CASTORIA. by Kevin Walsh May 11, 1998. May 11, 1998. Ads for this children’s stomach remedy can be found all over the five boroughs. Most date back to the Teens or Twenties. The now-vanished Third Avenue El is at right. Charles H. Fletcher began selling his Castoria, a mild stomach remedy for children, in 1871. PELHAM BAY PART 2, BRONX PELHAM BAY PART 2, Bronx. by Kevin Walsh July 18, 2010. July 18, 2010. CONTINUED FROM PART 1. Back in June I was dazedly puttering around the Middletown and Pelham Bay neighborhoods in the northeast Bronx, the kinds of New York City areas the AAA Guide or Time Out New York choose to ignore. Yet, thousands of people live and work thereROTARY CLUB
Rotary International bills itself as an organization dedicated “to bring together business and professional leaders in order to provide humanitarian service and to advance goodwill and peace around the world.” The service organization was founded by Paul Harris in Chicago in 1905. Though I had thought the name had something to do with the motor industry, the name came about simplyRICHMONDTOWN
Continued from Part 1. Historic Richmondtown, or Richmond Town (both ways seem correct) sits near the geographic center of Staten Island, far from any major parkways or expressways, but at the confluence of three major roads: Richmond Road, which points east toward the ferry to Manhattan; Arthur Kill Road, whcih gets you west to Tottenville; and Richmond Hill Road, which climbs GREENWICH VILLAGE, MANHATTAN Let’s take a brief look at the Village, Forgotten-style. We’ll begin with a triangle on a sidewalk. This is the oldest house in Greenwich Village, at the corner of 77 Bedford Street and Commerce Street. Known as the Isaacs-Hendricks House, it was built in 1799 (before most of the Village streets had been laid out), although largesections
FORMER STATIONHOUSES The former 75th Precinct building, a small fortress on Liberty and Miller Avenues in East New York, served a second stint beginning in the 70s as the People’s First Baptist Church (when it probably acquired its stained glass in the windows).But the church also had several gargoyles and green men – pagan symbols anathema to a Christian church. It is presently unoccupied; can it survive muchQUEENS 1930S
QUEENS 1930s. by Kevin Walsh May 19, 2019. May 19, 2019. I’ve begun to think about “stuff” lately. Forgotten New York celebrated its 20th anniversary this year, and I didn’t start on it until 1998, when I was 40 years old. This was just a few years after the World Wide Web started getting really popular; had the internet been aroundin
NORTH ASTORIA, QUEENS, PART 2 A short street spanning the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway formerly called 26th Avenue was renamed Bulova Avenue about 40 years ago to honor Bulova Watch, which is headquartered here.The company was formed in 1875 by Czech immigrant Joseph Bulova (1851-1936). The company has had numerous innovations over the years: first national radio commercial (1926), the first TV commercial THE RUINS OF ROSSVILLE The Rossville Boatyard. Vessels from all decades of the 20th Century lie, not exactly in state, but in a state of decomposition and rust at this former boatyard at Arthur Kill Road and Rossville Avenue. Most are tugs or cargo ships. The former piers have collapsed and are for the most part impassible, which makes them a magnet for daredevil ENGINE 252, BUSHWICK Engine 52 opened for business in 1897. For 22 years the firehouse employed horse-drawn wagons for calls; mechanized equipment was adopted in 1919. The firehouse joined the FDNY in January 1898, after Brooklyn consolidated into Greater New York. A close look at the shields on either side of the “Engine 252” entablature will revealthe number 52.
COW PARADE, 2000
COW PARADE, 2000. by Kevin Walsh March 29, 2017. March 29, 2017. Things were a little different in 2000. Bill Clinton was in the White House while the presidential race was shaping up to be Bush vs. Gore. The economy was on an even keel and had been for most of the past 8 years. The largest scandal had been the Big Dog’s adventures with an WOODSIDE, QUEENS, PART 1 WOODSIDE, Queens, Part 1. IN THE 17th and 18th centuries, the area known today as Woodside was filled with swamps, meadows, ponds and forests. A few colonial roads leading from the area’s waterways were forged through by those on their way to better places. A small number of brave souls decided to settle along the way.__
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with SERGEY KADINSKYForgotten NY correspondent I imagine that you weren’t aware that there’s a neighborhood called Mapleton in Brooklyn. It’s barely there anymore, as the larger neighborhoods ofBensonhurst and…
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February 27, 2020
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February 27, 2020 8 comments A short while ago I wrote a piece that showed you all the streets that carry presidential names in NYC, whether or not they were actually named for presidents. This…Read more__
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February 26, 2020
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February 25, 2020
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February 25, 2020 3 comments The northwest corner of East 14th Street and Irving Place is currently dominated by a combined residential-commercial complex, Zeckendorf Towers, completed in 1987. The complex includes entrances to thelarge…
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February 24, 2020
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February 23, 2020
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February 23, 2020 5 comments Continued from Part 1 To amuse myself before the football games came on, I decided to walk from my home in Little Neck all the way to 71st/Continental Avenue in…Read more__
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February 21, 2020
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February 20, 2020
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