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    42ND STREET SHUTTLE CHANGES

    by Kevin Walsh October 3, 2021
    by Kevin Walsh October 3, 2021 26 comments

    I just want to do a quick Sunday feature page this week, as I got plenty of walking in and watched plenty of baseball and football. A few weeks ago…

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    MONUMENTAL ELS

    by Kevin Walsh September 19, 2021
    by Kevin Walsh September 19, 2021 19 comments

    I have written often about the stationhouses found on the NYC subway’s old BMT division, mostly along the Sea Beach line (for younger readers, the N train between 59th Street…

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    LOST STREETS THE EL REMEMBERS

    by Kevin Walsh June 13, 2021
    by Kevin Walsh June 13, 2021 4 comments

    On two recent days, braving ungodly heat in the upper 80s with matching humidity, I marched around with the camera in Ozone Park, specifically up and down Liberty Avenue and…

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  • One ShotsSubways & Trains

    96TH STREET SIDE PLATFORM

    by Kevin Walsh June 2, 2021
    by Kevin Walsh June 2, 2021 7 comments

    96th Street is one of the Original 28 IRT subway stations that opened on October 27, 1904 between the old City Hall station and 145th Street, #1, 2, 3 trains…

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    4th STREET SIGN

    by Kevin Walsh May 31, 2021
    by Kevin Walsh May 31, 2021 13 comments

    The West 4th Street station is the nexus point of the IND, the point where the 6th and 8th Avenues lines come together on two separate levels. From here, trains…

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    CORONA PLAZA STATION

    by Kevin Walsh May 25, 2021
    by Kevin Walsh May 25, 2021 10 comments

    After a walk from Flushing straight through Flushing Meadows-Corona Park and into Corona, which I’ll discuss on a separate FNY page, it was time to get the #7 back to…

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  • One ShotsStreet LampsSubways & Trains

    DYRE AVENUE 2012

    by Kevin Walsh May 14, 2021
    by Kevin Walsh May 14, 2021 13 comments

    When conceived, it was assumed that the former New York, Westchester and Boston RR would eventually reach Boston, but instead at its lengthiest, it ran from southern Mott Haven in…

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    HIGH LINE 2021

    by Kevin Walsh May 2, 2021
    by Kevin Walsh May 2, 2021 18 comments

    From 1929-1934, NYC built two metal viaducts, the West Side Elevated Freight Railroad to carry train traffic, and the Miller Elevated Highway to carry automobiles; the Miller was more commonly known…

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    WEST 4TH STREET SIGNS

    by Kevin Walsh April 11, 2021
    by Kevin Walsh April 11, 2021 13 comments

    *I’m doing something a bit different this Sunday; instead of the usual longform page, I’m doing a shorter page because I was just hired part time at Marquis Who’s Who…

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  • One ShotsSubways & Trains

    PROSPECT PARK STATION

    by Kevin Walsh April 6, 2021
    by Kevin Walsh April 6, 2021 4 comments

    The NYC subway has its share of “station houses” originally built to let people wait for trains, if they didn’t want to do so on the platforms, if they chose.…

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    METS-WILLETS POINT STATION

    by Kevin Walsh April 4, 2021
    by Kevin Walsh April 4, 2021 17 comments

    2020 marked the first year I hadn’t attended any Mets games at Citifield or Shea Stadium in many years, to my knowledge, but there were just 30 games all year,…

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    R-40 SUBWAY CAR, Rockaway Park

    by Kevin Walsh March 23, 2021
    by Kevin Walsh March 23, 2021 8 comments

    Scouting a Forgotten Tour in Rockaway Park in June 2012, I found a pair of R-40 cars in the subway yard, #4393 and what was likely 4392. Introduced on March…

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