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    NYC PORTAL SPRING 2024

    by Kevin Walsh December 5, 2024
    by Kevin Walsh December 5, 2024 0 comment

    SINCE I have never been to Dublin, Ireland, and have only seen it by surfing on Google Street View, I thought I would head over to Madison Square in June…

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    INTERNATIONAL MOVING PICTURES, CARROLL GARDENS

    by Kevin Walsh December 1, 2024
    by Kevin Walsh December 1, 2024 11 comments

    HERE’S 101-103 Union Street between Columbia and Van Brunt, at the west end of a very long street that goes all the way to Brownsville. The building currently serves as…

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    CABLE-STAYED AT THE ROCK

    by Kevin Walsh November 29, 2024
    by Kevin Walsh November 29, 2024 3 comments

    ROCKEFELLER University’s pedestrian cable-stayed bridge, designed by Weidlinger Associates, connects the university’s south campus and residence halls, spanning busy East 63rd Street, which here is an on and off ramp…

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    INSIDE THE ONDERDONK

    by Kevin Walsh November 26, 2024
    by Kevin Walsh November 26, 2024 9 comments

    I have shown the exterior of the Van Der Ende-Onderdonk House at Flushing and Onderdonk Avenues on the undefended Brooklyn and Queens boundary a number of times on FNY, so…

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    SITE OF BAY RIDGE LANES, SUNSET PARK

    by Kevin Walsh November 21, 2024
    by Kevin Walsh November 21, 2024 3 comments

    HERE’S the Fei Long Market on 8th Avenue between 63rd and 64th Street. If you’re of a certain age you recall 8th Avenue and 64th Street for the 2001 Odyssey…

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    PEPSI, DEAD HORSE INLET

    by Kevin Walsh November 15, 2024
    by Kevin Walsh November 15, 2024 6 comments

    BARREN Island, at one point, was an actual island at the south end of today’s Marine Park, but was landfilled to create what is now the Floyd Bennett airfield. In…

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    ALARM BRACKET, CANARSIE

    by Kevin Walsh November 12, 2024
    by Kevin Walsh November 12, 2024 1 comment

    TAKE a look at the detailing on this lamp bracket found at Avenue L and East 99th Street in Canarsie. It once held a lightbulb surrounded by a conical orange…

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    LIDGERWOOD BUILDING 2024

    by Kevin Walsh November 7, 2024
    by Kevin Walsh November 7, 2024 2 comments

    RED HOOK is usually fairly decent at preserving its relics (despite the lack of action by the Landmarks Preservation Commission), with the exception of the dry docks since replaced by…

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    TRINITY LUTHERAN, STAPLETON

    by Kevin Walsh November 5, 2024
    by Kevin Walsh November 5, 2024 1 comment

    On the day after the 4th of July 2024 I made my only visit to Staten Island all year and puttered around the Stapleton area, specifically Van Duzer Street and…

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    A GLIMPSE OF VICTORY

    by Kevin Walsh October 30, 2024
    by Kevin Walsh October 30, 2024 14 comments

    VICTORY Boulevard, one of Staten Island’s longest roads, has a history that goes back to a 19th Century US Vice President. The village of Tompkinsville, founded by a future Vice…

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    NEW UTRECHT IN DAYLIGHT

    by Kevin Walsh October 29, 2024
    by Kevin Walsh October 29, 2024 3 comments

    THREE blocks of New Utrecht Avenue are uncovered by an elevated train. When riding the buses all over southern Brooklyn as a kid, I was on the B35 one day…

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    HANAN SHOE FACTORY, DUMBO

    by Kevin Walsh October 24, 2024
    by Kevin Walsh October 24, 2024 1 comment

    In December 2023 I entered Brooklyn for the first time in what I estimate was three years, a borough I lived in for 35 years; Covid-19 and then a succession…

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