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    NEWARK LIGHT RAIL

    by Kevin Walsh June 5, 2025
    by Kevin Walsh June 5, 2025 12 comments

    NEW York City’s subway system is among the world’s largest but is largely stuck in time, like a fly in amber. Because of construction safety precautions, environmental concerns, $$$ and…

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  • One ShotsOut of Town

    BAYLIS HOUSE, FLORAL PARK

    by Kevin Walsh March 11, 2025
    by Kevin Walsh March 11, 2025 0 comment

    In early 2020, while Covid-19 was raging, I had some idle months. One day in July I took the Q36 bus down Little Neck Parkway to Floral Park, just south…

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  • Out of TownStreet Lamps

    COVINGTON WHEELIES

    by Kevin Walsh February 26, 2025
    by Kevin Walsh February 26, 2025 6 comments

    LARGE cast-iron stoplights I call “Wheelies” first began to show up in the late 1920s as wide boulevards began to appear and traffic got heavier. They appeared on narrower roads as…

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    PENN STATION EAGLE, PHILADELPHIA

    by Kevin Walsh November 13, 2024
    by Kevin Walsh November 13, 2024 6 comments

    THIS is one of 22 nearly three-ton eagles that appeared on Penn Station’s exterior, now in Philadelphia. Lorraine B. Diehl, in her comprehensive history The Late Great Pennsylvania Station, in her description…

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    UNEEDA, SYRACUSE

    by Kevin Walsh August 17, 2024
    by Kevin Walsh August 17, 2024 2 comments

    If you know where to look, some old Uneeda Biscuit painted ads can still be seen around town, or out of town: in this case, Syracuse. A fire at a…

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  • Out of TownSigns

    LOS ANGELES STREETS

    by Kevin Walsh March 3, 2024
    by Kevin Walsh March 3, 2024 9 comments

    I have been to Los Angeles twice in my lifetime, to visit family (on my mother’s side) in 1962, when I was four; I have virtually no memory of my…

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  • Out of Town

    GOLD STREET

    by Kevin Walsh February 6, 2024
    by Kevin Walsh February 6, 2024 2 comments

    TWO decades ago while meandering about  in the rain down Maiden Lane in the eastern Financial District downtown in May 2003 I came across an unmarked street issuing north. I ascertained…

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  • Out of TownStreet Lamps

    NEWARK RETRO

    by Kevin Walsh January 28, 2024
    by Kevin Walsh January 28, 2024 11 comments

    I don’t have much to say today except to say my explorations of Newark, NJ have been shamefully few over the years, paling, for example, next to Jersey City or…

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  • Out of TownSigns

    TRENTON’S ANCIENT STREET SIGNS

    by Kevin Walsh August 16, 2022
    by Kevin Walsh August 16, 2022 7 comments

    My visits to New Jersey have been sporadic. For 30 years, on occasion, I have spent a lot of time in Hoboken and even worked there for a year in…

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  • One ShotsOut of Town

    RIP DENTON AVENUE BRIDGE, Garden City Park

    by Kevin Walsh April 19, 2022
    by Kevin Walsh April 19, 2022 16 comments

    WHEN I moved to fabulous Flushing in 1993, I was still bicycling far distances in roadways, ranging as far west as Ridgewood and as far east as Garden City; these…

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    BASEBALL STREETS, Commack

    by Kevin Walsh March 31, 2022
    by Kevin Walsh March 31, 2022 26 comments

    It surprises me somewhat that New York City doesn’t have more streets named for baseball players, as there have been four MLB teams playing in NYC since the start of…

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    ROBERT R. DOUGLASS BRIDGE, Battery Park City

    by Kevin Walsh January 28, 2022
    by Kevin Walsh January 28, 2022 0 comment

    THIS sort of escaped my notice as I had no idea that a new pedestrian bridge spanning the pedal-to-the-metal West Street (formerly the West Side Highway) opened during 2021; like…

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