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Disregarding the arrests of Yovanni “NyQuil” Rivera and Marcos Polanco, who went on a violent mugging spree in the fall and winter of 2006-07, and ignoring the story about the five homeless men who robbed, beat and raped a woman in the park in 2002 — your webmaster has been a frequent hiker in Flushing Meadows Corona Park, taking in [...]
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As much as any other neighborhood in Brooklyn, Windsor Terrace’s boundaries are rather easily defined: it’s that narrow strip, about 8 or 9 blocks at the widest, between the vast greenswards of Green-Wood Cemetery and Prospect Park. Prospect Park West (which 9th Avenue is inexplicably called here — the stretch doesn’t border the park) is [...]
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It was a deep and dark December as the song goes, and I had just a couple of hours before I lost the light. I decided to walk the scarp that divides Sunnyside and Woodside, through Sunnyside Gardens, and into Astoria… He’s called the Woodside Doughboy and while there are 9 other figures in NYC, such [...]
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CONTINUED FROM PART 5 That Totten Town Tottenville can unofficially be called New York State’s southernmost town (officially, New York City is). British naval officer captain Christopher Billopp was its first European settler in 1678, and within a couple of years, had built a stone mansion at the foot of today’s Hylan Boulevard that would figure [...]
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CONTINUED FROM PART 4 Your webmaster made fitful forays into extreme southwestern Staten Island (the old town of Westfield) in the 1960s (I seem to remember a bus ride with my parents past endless fields of nothing (likely Arthur Kill Road, which still has a lot of empty stretches) and a two-lane roadway (that was probably [...]
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