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WAVE HILL, Riverdale

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EAST NEW YORK, Long Island Rail Road

July 2, 2022 5 comments

MOTHER JONES, Brighton Beach

June 30, 2022 3 comments
  • Signs

    SUNNYSIDE NAMES

    by Kevin Walsh June 29, 2022
    by Kevin Walsh June 29, 2022 1 comment

    I’LL admit it. I’d like to get my name on an honorific New York City street sign. However, if I do I’ll never be able to see it because the…

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  • One Shots

    SAMUEL HUBBARD HOUSE, Gravesend

    by Kevin Walsh June 28, 2022
    by Kevin Walsh June 28, 2022 1 comment

    THIS is the Samuel Hubbard House, which may now justifiably be called the John Antonides House, at #2138 McDonald Avenue north of Avenue T. The right side of the house…

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  • One Shots

    ST. AUGUSTINE’S, Lower East Side

    by Kevin Walsh June 27, 2022
    by Kevin Walsh June 27, 2022 2 comments

    THE original name of St. Augustine’s Episcopal Chapel at #290 Henry near Jackson Street on the Lower East Side was All Saints Free Church, which is still carved over the…

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  • FNY CROSSTOWN

    GRAND STREET, Soho-Chinatown, Part 2

    by Kevin Walsh June 26, 2022
    by Kevin Walsh June 26, 2022 10 comments

    Continued from Part 1 In the late winters and springs of 2021-2022 I found I was walking through Soho and its bordering neighborhoods, Chinatown and the Lower East Side. Already,…

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  • One Shots

    EDWIN B. STIMPSON, Clinton Hill

    by Kevin Walsh June 25, 2022
    by Kevin Walsh June 25, 2022 7 comments

    I had known about this building on Park and Franklin Avenues in Clinton Hill marked with the name “Stimpson” for some time. A recent walk by there again led me…

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  • One ShotsSubways & Trains

    SPRING AHEAD, Soho

    by Kevin Walsh June 23, 2022
    by Kevin Walsh June 23, 2022 3 comments

    I had a rare foray on the #6 line running south on Lafayette Street recently and got out at Spring Street to see how one of my favorite stations is…

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  • Street Lamps

    CITY HALL TWINS

    by Kevin Walsh June 22, 2022
    by Kevin Walsh June 22, 2022 4 comments

    ALAS, I have never been able to get a decent photo of the two vintage Twinlamps that light the plaza in front of the NYC City Hall entrance; that’s because…

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  • One Shots

    13TH AVENUE and GANSEVOORT MARKET

    by Kevin Walsh June 21, 2022
    by Kevin Walsh June 21, 2022 3 comments

    THE former West Washington Market was enclosed in ten two-story-tall red brick and terra cotta buildings, completed in 1889, set on four streets and one avenue. In 1939, the WPA…

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  • FNY CROSSTOWN

    GRAND STREET, Soho-Chinatown, Part 1

    by Kevin Walsh June 19, 2022
    by Kevin Walsh June 19, 2022 3 comments

    In the late winters and springs of 2022 I found I was walking through Soho and its bordering neighborhoods, Chinatown and the Lower East Side. Already, I have assembled pages…

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  • Neighborhoods

    CAROUSEL FOR ALL CHILDREN, Willowbrook Park

    by Kevin Walsh June 16, 2022
    by Kevin Walsh June 16, 2022 3 comments

    I fancy myself something of a connoisseur of carousels. Whenever I know one is around wherever I happen to be, I seek it out. I admire the calliope music (fie…

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  • You'd Never Believe You're in NYC

    WILLOWBROOK PARK

    by Kevin Walsh June 15, 2022
    by Kevin Walsh June 15, 2022 3 comments

    MENTION “Willowbrook” to anyone over 50, and the groundbreaking reports aired by reporter Geraldo Rivera in 1972 during his stint at WABC-TV, uncovering the brutal conditions inflicted on patients at…

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  • One ShotsStreet Lamps

    BROOKLYN’S OLDEST CROOK

    by Kevin Walsh June 14, 2022
    by Kevin Walsh June 14, 2022 3 comments

    PASSING by Court and Remsen Street always stirs up some feelings of reminiscence for me because between 1975 and 1980, I passed the corner thousands of times as a student…

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