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THERE are a few remaining streets in Greenwich Village I haven’t walked, or at least purposefully walked from beginning to end. The Village is known for its Washingtons: Washington Street,…
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REALLY, I could have sworn I hadn’t been back in the Bushwick and Ridgewood area for a couple of years, but the internet doesn’t lie (well, some of it does),…
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What follows is an expansion of a piece that recently appeared in SpliceToday. I added more information and photos taken during a recent walk in Astoria’s northern end. After fur…
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In late June I was stalking around Greenpoint again. Over the past 6-8 months or so, my visits have been frequent, as the northern Brooklyn neighborhood is easy for me…
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The following is an expansion of an article that appeared in SpliceToday, December 30, 2020. I walked from the 71st/Continental Avenue station (E/F/M/R) to the Jamaica LIRR station. In the…
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Jane Street wasn’t my original thinking today. My original plan called for a ride on the PATH train all the way to Newark and then a ride on the Newark…
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In November 2020 I was in the mood for a compact voyage of discovery on a crisp fall day and I recognized I had not yet walked the entire length…
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I braved the ice floes in the first week of February 2021 and hit the 7 and G trains to the Broadway stop at Union Avenue. I had a desire…
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During the summer, I did something a bit different — I took NYC Ferry to DUMBO in Brooklyn, which I had always accessed with the F train. I think I…
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This article is an expanded version of a SpliceToday post from December 9, 2020. A post-Thanksgiving trip saw me heading up Vernon Boulevard from Hunters Point to Ravenswood. At the…
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Back in October I was roving Brooklyn, Queens and Manhattan quite a bit. In the year of Covid, I resumed roaming about, including riding the subways, at first fitfully in…
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It had been quite a while since I walked Hudson River Park at the southwest end of Manhattan. In fact it had not been since November 2011, when I led…