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    HOLIDAY TRAIN 2023

    by Kevin Walsh December 17, 2023
    by Kevin Walsh December 17, 2023 23 comments

    Title card photo by Peter Dougherty, whose Tracks of the NYC Subway’s new edition is available. THIS weekend is particularly busy with holiday stuff and freelance work, so I’ll do…

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    M3 CARS, LONG ISLAND RAIL ROAD

    by Kevin Walsh December 4, 2023
    by Kevin Walsh December 4, 2023 12 comments

    UNTIL just recently, M3 electric-powered rail cars employed on the Long Island Rail Road, were still in use as delivery of new M9 cars was delayed. (As MTA subway cars…

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    ORIGINAL CANAL

    by Kevin Walsh November 28, 2023
    by Kevin Walsh November 28, 2023 2 comments

    WANT to check out some NYC history but don’t want to ferret it out in a museum? Ride the subway instead. This plaque, designed by Jay Van Everen and located…

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    BMT LIGHTING…RIGHT AND WRONG

    by Kevin Walsh November 24, 2023
    by Kevin Walsh November 24, 2023 5 comments

    As I’ve learned from decades of experience, there’s the right way to do things, and there’s the wrong way (of which I freely admit my occasional guilt) which is usually…

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    ATLANTIC AVENUE BOAT

    by Kevin Walsh October 23, 2023
    by Kevin Walsh October 23, 2023 11 comments

    In downtown Brooklyn, Flatbush, Atlantic Avenue, and 4th Avenue all come together at a triangle called Times Plaza after a newspaper, long defunct, that had its offices nearby. In 1908…

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    BACK AT THE HIGH LINE, AGAIN

    by Kevin Walsh October 22, 2023
    by Kevin Walsh October 22, 2023 9 comments

    I have always been fascinated with the High Line (or High Line Park), the linear park opened in stages beginning in 2009 on what was built in 1934 as the…

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    H&M TUNNELS, 14th STREET

    by Kevin Walsh September 23, 2023
    by Kevin Walsh September 23, 2023 13 comments

    THE Port Authority Trans-Hudson Railroad, or the PATH train, is NYC’s “other” subway, running under 6th Avenue, Christopher Street, Greenwich Street and Morton Street and from Church Street at the World…

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    8TH AVENUE STATION, BMT

    by Kevin Walsh September 14, 2023
    by Kevin Walsh September 14, 2023 4 comments

    In November 2017, Thanksgiving to be exact, I embarked on one of my lengthiest forays, walking from Sunset Park to Maspeth. The family had informed me that the Thanksgiving stuff…

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    168th STREET STATION, JAMAICA

    by Kevin Walsh September 11, 2023
    by Kevin Walsh September 11, 2023 24 comments

    HERE’S a look at the 168th Street elevated train platform in Jamaica sometime in the late 1960s or early 1970s. We are probably looking at a fan trip as there…

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    ROCKAWAY LINE

    by Kevin Walsh September 7, 2023
    by Kevin Walsh September 7, 2023 6 comments

    WITH proponents of the so-called QueensLink, a proposed rail line revival that would link subways or LIRR lines in Rego Park to a subway in Woodhaven, rallying once more at…

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    CULVER WHO? MIDWOOD

    by Kevin Walsh August 23, 2023
    by Kevin Walsh August 23, 2023 9 comments

    THIS auto collision repair shop at #1552 McDonald Avenue near Avenue M in Midwood likely does not have a proprietor named Culver. Instead, it is found under the only elevated…

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    ORIGINAL SOUTH FERRY PLAQUE

    by Kevin Walsh August 14, 2023
    by Kevin Walsh August 14, 2023 5 comments

    THE original South Ferry station at the tip of Manhattan is a very complex operation that comprises no less than four separate platforms that serve, or served, the IRT 7th…

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