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    WILD IN THE COUNTRY, Fresh Meadows

    by Kevin Walsh August 6, 2020
    by Kevin Walsh August 6, 2020 14 comments

    Where can this Queens scene be, which looks to be way out in the countryside with a few scattered houses near the horizon and a single railroad track in the…

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    TROLLEY POLE, Cobble Hill

    by Kevin Walsh September 25, 2018
    by Kevin Walsh September 25, 2018 1 comment

    Here’s a remaining trolley pole at Atlantic Avenue and a Brooklyn-Queens Expressway exit, just west of Hicks Street. It once had a partner across the street and electric cable was…

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    QUEENSBORO BRIDGE TROLLEY REMNANTS

    by Kevin Walsh December 23, 2016
    by Kevin Walsh December 23, 2016 1 comment

    This was one of what was originally five exquisite entrance and exit kiosks, rendered in beautiful Beaux Arts terra cotta, that used to stand at 2nd Avenue and East 60th…

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    FULTON TRACKS, Clinton Hill

    by Kevin Walsh April 28, 2016
    by Kevin Walsh April 28, 2016 3 comments

    By GARY FONVILLE Forgotten NY correspondent I had great pleasure in doing two entries concerning trolley tracks that were breaking through many levels of asphalt that made them seemingly disappear from NYC’s streets.  …

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    TROLLEY POLE, Canarsie

    by Kevin Walsh December 1, 2015
    by Kevin Walsh December 1, 2015 14 comments

    This massive, rusty pole with a pair of crossbars at the top has been in place on Glenwood Road near Rockaway Parkway for almost a hundred years, and pure inertia…

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    BROOKLYN CITY RAILROAD, Sunset Park

    by Kevin Walsh August 10, 2015
    by Kevin Walsh August 10, 2015 9 comments

    This stolid, 3-story brick building, which takes up the entire block between 2nd and 3rd Avenue and 58th and 59th Street in Sunset Park, now occupied by a variety of…

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    TROLLEY REMNANT, Norwood

    by Kevin Walsh June 1, 2015
    by Kevin Walsh June 1, 2015 5 comments

    On the FNY Norwood tour on May 31st, 2014, we  ran across this tall, iron post at Webster Avenue and East 204th. My feeling is that it used to hold…

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    TROLLEY POLE, East Flatbush

    by Kevin Walsh April 6, 2015
    by Kevin Walsh April 6, 2015 3 comments

    I haven’t been down this stretch of Church Avenue in East Flatbush since I was a kid, when my parents and I would take the B35 bus almost all the…

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    ONDERDONK TROLLEY POLE, Ridgewood

    by Kevin Walsh January 31, 2015
    by Kevin Walsh January 31, 2015 0 comment

    Outside the circa 1710 Onderdonk House on Flushing and Onderdonk Avenues , the seat of the Greater Ridgewood Historical Society (which is recommended for a visit) amid glass wholesalers, auto…

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    GRAND STREET BRIDGE, Williamsburg-Maspeth

    by Kevin Walsh December 10, 2014
    by Kevin Walsh December 10, 2014 4 comments

    Of the many bridges that cross the noxious and noisome Newtown Creek, which includes the Pulaski (McGuiness Boulevard), J.J. Byrne (Greenpoint Avenue) Kosciuszko (Brooklyn-Queens Expressway), the Metropolitan Avenue bridge, and…

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    WILLIAMSBURG TROLLEY REMNANT

    by Kevin Walsh October 1, 2014
    by Kevin Walsh October 1, 2014 8 comments

    I was desultorily trudging through Williamsburg on January 1, 2014 when I was reminded of the power of trolley tracks to preserve ancient streets. Johnson Avenue is a relatively busy…

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    ROOSEVELT ISLAND’S TROLLEY KIOSK

    by Kevin Walsh August 21, 2014
    by Kevin Walsh August 21, 2014 13 comments

    Even though Manhattan is an island, Roosevelt Island is an island in the borough of Manhattan. I was slouching around the southern end of the island this past week, as…

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