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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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  • Forgotten SlicesSubways & Trains

    THE HIGH LINE section that won’t be a park

    by Kevin Walsh July 27, 2010
    by Kevin Walsh July 27, 2010 2 comments

    The West Side Freight Elevated, colloquially known as the High Line (shouldn’t all elevated trains be High Lines?) has seen its share of coverage in Forgotten New York, from 1999, when the…

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    PELHAM BAY’S “B STREET”

    by Kevin Walsh July 26, 2010
    by Kevin Walsh July 26, 2010 5 comments

    While skulking through Pelham Bay in the Bronx in July 2010, I once again pondered the origin of the heretofore mysterious B Street, which runs south to a dead end…

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    CITY RELIQUARY LAMPPOST EXHIBIT

    by Kevin Walsh July 20, 2010
    by Kevin Walsh July 20, 2010 1 comment

    In the summer of 2009 I was on Metropolitan Avenue in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, having just completed another 40 or 50 blocks in my drawn-out survey of Bedford Avenue in Brooklyn (two segments of…

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    FRESH KILLS, Staten Island

    by Kevin Walsh July 19, 2010
    by Kevin Walsh July 19, 2010 0 comment

    BY CHRISTINA WILKINSON Forgotten NY correspondent Today we visit Staten Island to take a tour of the Fresh Kills Landfill.  Well, that’s what many of us knew it as growing up. …

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