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INSIDE ASTROLAND'S ROCKET The Coney Island History Project had it painted, installed new seats, historical signs, and a short film depicting Astroland

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20.10.2025 22:35 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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108TH STREET, FOREST HILLS, CORONA In mid-August I was looking for a walk that wasn’t too taxing yet would get my steps in. I have been undergoing PT since early August and will be wrapping…

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19.10.2025 22:15 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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PUTNAM BRIDGE, HARLEM One of Boller's bridges is truly lost, the Putnam Bridge that spanned the Harlem River between the northern end of 8th Avenue and Sedgwick Avenue in the Bronx.

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18.10.2025 03:08 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Forgotten New York's Tour Legacy - Forgotten New York While western Queens is the primary focus of its activities, GAHS has a hand (and a foot) in every neighborhood in NYC since 2011

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16.10.2025 21:05 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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St. George's Astoria Village - Forgotten New York There has been a St. George Episcopal parish in Astoria since 1825 when its site was donated by landowner Robert Blackwell

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16.10.2025 03:26 — 👍 3    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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Inwood Sampler In and around Inwood Park at the top of Manhattan. || Kevin Walsh

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15.10.2025 12:00 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Street Name Relics - Forgotten New York Today, I'll concentrate on 30th Avenue in Astoria, which before it was 30th Avenue, was once Grand Avenue.

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15.10.2025 04:01 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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SHRADY PLACE Shrady Place has probably been called "Shady Place" over the years but the name is indeed Shrady, with an "R."

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13.10.2025 23:45 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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EAST NEW YORK STATION The Long Island Rail Road Brooklyn branch runs from Jamaica west to Flatbush Avenue. I'm surprised the LIRR has retained it

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13.10.2025 03:51 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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A LOOK AT SEWARD PARK The park was the first public urban playground when it opened. It had a maypole and seesaws, which are distant memories for parkgoers

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11.10.2025 16:22 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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PERTH AMBOY FERRY SLIP A few wooden pilings and some crumbling concrete are all that remains of the Perth Amboy ferry landing in Tottenville

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11.10.2025 00:08 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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FLUSHING BAY 1932 I came upon this shot labeled Astoria Boulevard 4/12/32 but nowhere today does Astoria Boulevard border a body of water

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09.10.2025 23:58 — 👍 5    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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MEET ME AT THE PARAMOUNT Paramount Theatre, at 560 Bay Street near Prospect, is now likely Staten Island’s premier ‘ghost theater’

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08.10.2025 19:00 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Where? Over There! As a native Brooklynite, I protest the notion of a Manhattan Ave. || Kevin Walsh

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08.10.2025 13:01 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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TOMPKINS LODGE 471, STAPLETON Tompkins Lodge 471, #514 Bay Street at Sands Street, is a classical-style Masonic Temple

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08.10.2025 00:01 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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ISHAM PHARMACY The name "Isham " is closely associated with Inwood, the northernmost neighborhood on Manhattan Island, though not the most northerly

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06.10.2025 23:45 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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42ND STREET WHAT, you were expecting 42nd Street in Manhattan? That’s probably the least-Forgotten street in New York City, though it would be interesting to find “forgotten” aspects of it. I’d have…

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05.10.2025 13:41 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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PAERDEGATS OF BROOKLYN THERE are no less than 20 place names in Brooklyn named “Paerdegat.” There’s Paerdegat Park, shown below; Paerdegat Basin, which separates the communities of Bergen Beach/Georgetown and Canarsie; Paer...

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02.10.2025 21:17 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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KINGSBRIDGE HEIGHTS CASTLE Schill filed plans for a stone house with a tile roof to plans by Rudolph F. Knochenhauer, developed as a Bavarian-style mini castle

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02.10.2025 03:01 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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One's photo of Corona Yards last December beat out the competition and will appear on the back cover of Tracks of the NYC Subway by Peter Dougherty.

Ordering goes live on October 10 at nyctrackbook.com.

02.10.2025 01:59 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Yznaga Saga, and Other Bronx Names There were a number of Yznagas in Cuba, and it’s there we discover the origin of this unusual street name. || Kevin Walsh

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01.10.2025 13:11 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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FORMAN BUILDING, WILLIAMSBURG Among the many architectural marvels found along Broadway in Williamsburg, Brooklyn is the magnificent cast iron Forman Building

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30.09.2025 23:42 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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THE LATEST ON CHUMLEY'S Chumley’s is probably the only major bar or restaurant in New York City that never had a sign of any sort on its exterior

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30.09.2025 23:41 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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BUSHWICK AND KNICKERBOCKER Bogart Street is indeed named for the Dutch colonial immigrants whose later descendants included famed actor Humphrey Bogart

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28.09.2025 19:12 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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MUSKRAT COVE, WAKEFIELD The section of the Bronx River at the East 238th Street Bridge is designated as Muskrat Cove, named for a resident animal

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26.09.2025 03:26 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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KLEIN & LEONARD, WILLIAMSBURG Like many haberdashers in the era, buildings featured large block lettering and illustrations of suits on the exterior brickwork

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25.09.2025 21:39 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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MYRTLE AVENUE ART Ridgewood and Bushwick have been premier locales for art on buildings, a cut above the usual spray can offerings by the local youth

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24.09.2025 18:12 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Dyker Beach Golf Course Growing up next to Dyker Beach Golf Course, I never swung a golf club. Who can afford golf clubs? || Kevin Walsh

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24.09.2025 12:14 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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GWINNETT STREET, WILLIAMSBURG Gwinnett was killed in a duel by Lachlan McIntosh who was given a plum command in the Georgia militia that Gwinnett had desired

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24.09.2025 04:22 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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CORNER DELI, UPPER EAST SIDE It turns out that this is an uptown branch of La Esquina at Kenmare and Lafayette, which also has a movie theatre-style marquee

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23.09.2025 00:03 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

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