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Continued from Avenue B FROM late 2024-early 2025, I decided to walk Manhattan’s lettered avenues from A to D (Brooklyn has the full panoply, with a few exceptions, from A…
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FOLLOWING Sergey’s piece on the Marty Supreme set on Eldridge Street in December, I thought I would do a quick walk on Eldridge Street and its partner Forsyth, as I…
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FOUR of the five NYC boroughs have lettered streets, though only Brooklyn carries the idea all the way through. As far as lettered streets go in the USA, Washington, DC’s…
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After 4 out of 5 weekends when I handed the reins over to Sergey Kadinsky, I’m returning to weekend longform this week and I have a large backlog to get…
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Continued from Part Two In March 2018, I marched from the Tremont Ave. IND subway station at the Grand Concourse east on its titular avenue all the way to the…
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In March 2018, I marched from the Tremont Ave. IND subway station at the Grand Concourse east on its titular avenue all the way to the Bruckner Expressway, where I…
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FOLLOWING my revisit of upper 5th Avenue in Park Slope in early 2024 I decided to stalk south on 19th Street into the heart of Windsor Terrace, as I had…
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In September 2024 I had to take shorter walks because a chronic sore back condition arose, and my journeys totaled 4 miles or less. Thus things were near “perfect” for…
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In May 2023, I walked Humboldt Street’s near-entire length, from Flushing Avenue north to Greenpoint Avenue. In many ways it’s the north-south axis of East Williamsburg. I remember my very…
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EARLY December 2023 was mild, in the 50s and 60s, foretelling a winter that was milder than usual…again. In the era of climate change, no winter has been below normal…
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Continued from Part 1 5th Avenue in Brooklyn is merely one of a sequence of numbered avenues in western Brooklyn that run from 1st to 28th Avenues. While some like…
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RETURNING to a well-worn route in my experience, 5th Avenue. Five happens to be my favorite number for some reason, as I have spent considerable time on 5th Avenue. Not…