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    QUEENS BOULEVARD VIADUCT, Sunnyside

    by Kevin Walsh March 4, 2021
    by Kevin Walsh March 4, 2021 4 comments

    I don’t have any particularly new historic information to impart about the Queens Boulevard Flushing Line Viaduct in Sunnyside, except that I thought this photo I got in late 2020…

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    TRACK INDICATOR, Moynihan Train Hall

    by Kevin Walsh March 3, 2021
    by Kevin Walsh March 3, 2021 2 comments

    One of the welcomer features of the new Moynihan Train Hall, which opened January 1, 2021 in the former James Farley US Post Office distribution center, is the use of…

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    ROCKAWAY TRACKS, Edgemere

    by Kevin Walsh February 26, 2021
    by Kevin Walsh February 26, 2021 13 comments

    My mission was simple in October 2018—I was going to walk the entire length of the Rockaway peninsula, from Riis Park all the way east to Far Rockaway. I nearly…

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    ROCKAWAY LINE TRACKS, Forest Park

    by Kevin Walsh January 20, 2021
    by Kevin Walsh January 20, 2021 6 comments

    The Long Island Railroad’s Rockaway Beach Branch diverged from the LIRR’s Main Line in Rego Park at about 66th Ave. at what was called Whitepot Junction. It ran south through the…

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    MOYNIHAN TRAIN HALL, Penn Station

    by Kevin Walsh January 3, 2021
    by Kevin Walsh January 3, 2021 14 comments

    On January 1, 2021 I resolved to do exactly what I had done 4 years earlier in 2017, when I visited the four new Second Avenue Subway stations, walking between…

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    WOODSIDE PLATFORM LAMPS

    by Kevin Walsh December 11, 2020
    by Kevin Walsh December 11, 2020 4 comments

    Lately I’ve started getting enthusiastic about subway and elevated platform lighting. (Yeah, I know no one else is, really.) Why not? They’re lampposts, too. In NYC there’s a plethora of…

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    HOWARD BEACH STATION

    by Kevin Walsh November 22, 2020
    by Kevin Walsh November 22, 2020 2 comments

    I confess, this week it’ll be a bit shorter Sunday page than usual, but I’ve been trying to shorten them lately, anyway. A couple of weeks ago Joanna and I…

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    RIVERSIDE STATIONS

    by Kevin Walsh November 15, 2020
    by Kevin Walsh November 15, 2020 21 comments

    I’m happy to be an East Coast guy. Wherever I go in the NYC area, I’m not far from water. I’m happy about that, even though I have never swum…

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    ATLANTIC AND FLATBUSH, Part 2

    by Kevin Walsh November 13, 2020
    by Kevin Walsh November 13, 2020 13 comments

    The other day, I posted a photo of Atlantic and Flatbush Avenues in about 1910, remarking on what has changed and what has stayed the same since then. Today I…

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    ATLANTIC and FLATBUSH AVENUE

    by Kevin Walsh November 10, 2020
    by Kevin Walsh November 10, 2020 13 comments

    In downtown Brooklyn, Atlantic and Flatbush Avenues meet at a triangle, with the third side filled by 4th Avenue. The triangle was formerly known as Times Plaza, after a long-defunct…

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    DUMBO’S DISAPPEARING TRACKS

    by Kevin Walsh November 8, 2020
    by Kevin Walsh November 8, 2020 3 comments

    I am drawn to DUMBO quite a bit, from its stolid brick factory and warehouse buildings…to its water views…to its Belgian blocked streets suffused with ancient railroad tracks. I have…

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    14th STREET EAGLES

    by Kevin Walsh October 28, 2020
    by Kevin Walsh October 28, 2020 14 comments

    In October 2020 FNY featured the 34th Street station complex at Herald and Greeley Squares, where the Broadway (BMT), 6th Avenue (IND) and PATH trains to New Jersey all come…

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