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    CHARLES STREET POLICE HQ

    by Kevin Walsh September 15, 2010
    by Kevin Walsh September 15, 2010 1 comment

    Desperate from some surcease from the baking, broiling madness that was the summer of 2010 in New York, a summer that saw over a month total lof plus-90 degree weather, a…

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    COUGH TRIANGLE, Gowanus

    by Kevin Walsh September 14, 2010
    by Kevin Walsh September 14, 2010 1 comment

    I had just crossed the miasmic, fetid Gowanus Canal one recent flaccid, sweat-inducing Sunday, on an August in one of the hottest, most humid New York summers in an uncountable string of them,…

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    FOREST HILLS TENNIS STADIUM

    by Kevin Walsh September 7, 2010
    by Kevin Walsh September 7, 2010 12 comments

    The Who, the Beatles, Jimi Hendrix, Elvis Costello, Don Budge, Rod Laver, Billie Jean King and Jimmy Connors have all held court at Forest Hills Tennis Stadium at 69th Avenue and…

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    CAR-FREE SATURDAY Part 7: East 46th-East 72nd Street

    by Kevin Walsh August 31, 2010
    by Kevin Walsh August 31, 2010 0 comment

    On the first three Saturdays in August the Department of Transportation shuts down Lafayette Street, 4th Avenue, Park Avenue South, Park Avenue and part of West 72nd Street in theSummer Streets…

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    CAR-FREE SATURDAY Part 6: Park Avenue Viaduct

    by Kevin Walsh August 26, 2010
    by Kevin Walsh August 26, 2010 0 comment

    On the first three Saturdays in August the Department of Transportation shuts down Lafayette Street, 4th Avenue, Park Avenue South, Park Avenue and part of West 72nd Street in the Summer Streets…

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    CAR-FREE SATURDAY Part 5: 34th to 42nd Streets

    by Kevin Walsh August 25, 2010
    by Kevin Walsh August 25, 2010 0 comment

    On the first three Saturdays in August the Department of Transportation shuts down Lafayette Street, 4th Avenue, Park Avenue South, Park Avenue and part of West 72nd Street in theSummer Streets…

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    CAR-FREE SATURDAY Part 4: Union Square to East 32nd

    by Kevin Walsh August 18, 2010
    by Kevin Walsh August 18, 2010 0 comment

    On the first three Saturdays in August the Department of Transportation shuts down Lafayette Street, 4th Avenue, Park Avenue South, Park Avenue and part of West 72nd Street in theSummer Streets…

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    CAR-FREE SATURDAY Part 3: Cooper Square to Union Square

    by Kevin Walsh August 18, 2010
    by Kevin Walsh August 18, 2010 0 comment

    On the first three Saturdays in August the Department of Transportation shuts down Lafayette Street, 4th Avenue, Park Avenue South, Park Avenue and part of West 72nd Street in theSummer Streets…

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    CAR-FREE SATURDAY Part 2: Canal Street to West 4th

    by Kevin Walsh August 11, 2010
    by Kevin Walsh August 11, 2010 0 comment

    On the first three Saturdays in August the Department of Transportation shuts down Lafayette Street, 4th Avenue, Park Avenue South, Park Avenue and part of West 72nd Street in theSummer Streets…

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    CAR-FREE SATURDAY Part 1: City Hall to Canal Street

    by Kevin Walsh August 9, 2010
    by Kevin Walsh August 9, 2010 1 comment

    On the first three Saturdays in August the Department of Transportation shuts down Lafayette Street, 4th Avenue, Park Avenue South, Park Avenue and part of West 72nd Street in theSummer Streets…

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    LEXINGTON AVENUE curved-mast lampposts

    by Kevin Walsh August 4, 2010
    by Kevin Walsh August 4, 2010 1 comment

    I was desultorily ambling south on Lexington Avenue on the Monday afternoon of August 2, 2010 after a meeting with the director of the Museum of the City of New York on 5th…

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    BOROUGH PARK LOSSES

    by Kevin Walsh August 2, 2010
    by Kevin Walsh August 2, 2010 0 comment

    I was slowly and furtively making my way on a looping route from Bartel-Pritchard Square (really a traffic roundabout) at the western end of Prospect Park south and southwest to Borough…

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