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  • Roads

    UNEXPECTED TUNNELS

    by Kevin Walsh January 1, 2022
    by Kevin Walsh January 1, 2022 47 comments

    I have mentioned NYC’s major tunnels only tangentially in Forgotten New York. Over more than 20 years, the site has become about NYC’s built infrastructure (at least the parts I…

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  • Subways & Trains

    MONUMENTAL ELS

    by Kevin Walsh September 19, 2021
    by Kevin Walsh September 19, 2021 19 comments

    I have written often about the stationhouses found on the NYC subway’s old BMT division, mostly along the Sea Beach line (for younger readers, the N train between 59th Street…

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  • Street Scenes

    NYC’s TRAFFIC CIRCLES, PART 2

    by Kevin Walsh November 30, 2019
    by Kevin Walsh November 30, 2019 2 comments

    Continued from Part 1 I was puttering around up in Melrose, Bronx a week or two ago and I spotted a true roundabout, in the British sense. NYC has a number…

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    ROCKAWAY FREEWAY, Queens

    by Kevin Walsh May 20, 2018
    by Kevin Walsh May 20, 2018 21 comments

    I remember it pretty clearly. It was in October, 1975 and it was the first time I had ever ridden my bicycle across Jamaica Bay on the Marine Parkway, since…

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  • Tours

    FORGOTTENTOUR #82, Westchester Square to Parkchester

    by Kevin Walsh August 12, 2014
    by Kevin Walsh August 12, 2014 10 comments

    On yet another perfect weather day ForgottenTour #82 assembled at “The Chair” sculpture in Westchester Square, the intersection of Westchester, East Tremont and Lane Avenues in the Bronx, on Saturday,…

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  • Walks

    CONCOURSE TO PARKCHESTER

    by Kevin Walsh January 2, 2012
    by Kevin Walsh January 2, 2012 28 comments

    In October 2011 I walked through the mid-Bronx from the Grand Concourse to Parkchester, east through Mount Hope, Tremont, Belmont, Bronx Park South and West Farms, pretty much the center…

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    WESTCHESTER AVENUE Part 2

    by Kevin Walsh April 4, 2011
    by Kevin Walsh April 4, 2011 18 comments

    It’s about time I finished my Westchester Avenue walk, which I began in the summer of 2009 from Parkchester, the 1942 apartment complex created by the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company…

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  • NeighborhoodsRoadsStreet Scenes

    WESTCHESTER AVENUE, Bronx, Part 1

    by Kevin Walsh September 6, 2009
    by Kevin Walsh September 6, 2009 0 comment

    I love els. From Brooklyn’s New Utrecht Ave., Livonia Avenue, Broadway of Brooklyn (Manhattan’s Broadway is elled too) to Queens’ Liberty and Jamaica Avenues, Roosevelt Avenue and Queens Boulevard (that…

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  • Forgotten Slices

    PARKCHESTER’S SCULPTURES

    by Kevin Walsh September 25, 2008
    by Kevin Walsh September 25, 2008 35 comments

    If you haven’t been to Parkchester you’re in for a treat. Visiting the Bronx’ s premier apartment complex is an experience that will delight anyone with an interest in urban planning and…

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  • Street Lamps

    THROWIN’ EM A CURVE. Lamppost designs at the dawn of the modern era.

    by Kevin Walsh July 17, 2002
    by Kevin Walsh July 17, 2002 0 comment

      It’s 1950 and on Third Avenue, the el trains rumbling overhead, like the Triceratops and Tyrannosaurs of the Cretaceous, are blissfully unmindful of their upcoming doom. The shrews, rats…

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  • Signs

    COLOR CODED STREET SIGNS OF THE 60s

    by Kevin Walsh June 25, 2000
    by Kevin Walsh June 25, 2000 3 comments

    There used to be a time, not too long ago, when you could recognize what borough you were in by looking at the color of the street sign. This state…

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