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    EMPIRE THEATRE, Bedford-Stuyvesant

    by Kevin Walsh August 18, 2020
    by Kevin Walsh August 18, 2020 7 comments

    Unfortunately I don’t get into eastern Bedford-Stuyvesant much, but a couple of structures at Ralph Avenue and Quincy Street recently attracted my notice. The dilapidated building shown above is the…

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    SHEFFIELD FARMS — RESTORATION PLAZA, Bedford-Stuyvesant

    by Kevin Walsh June 18, 2020
    by Kevin Walsh June 18, 2020 0 comment

    Remarkably, the former Sheffield Farms bottling plant in the heart of Bedford-Stuyvesant on Fulton Street at Marcy Avenue has not been protected by the Landmarks Preservation Society and thus I…

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    HARMONY IN WEEKSVILLE

    by Kevin Walsh February 24, 2017
    by Kevin Walsh February 24, 2017 1 comment

    By SERGEY KADINSKY Forgotten NY correspondent In November 2013, Kevin Walsh set out to document every street in the city that uses a full name. The list excluded honorific co-named…

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    B.F. GOODRICH, Bedford-Stuyvesant

    by Kevin Walsh May 14, 2016
    by Kevin Walsh May 14, 2016 0 comment

    Barely discernible at this point on a garage wall on Patchen Avenue between Putnam Avenue and Madison Street is an ad for B.F. Goodrich tires. The company was founded by…

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    BROOKLYN CURSIVE

    by Kevin Walsh May 5, 2016
    by Kevin Walsh May 5, 2016 5 comments

    I admit, I learned cursive writing in grade school but I haven’t used it since, except to write my name (I am one of those people who try to make…

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    LOWRY TRIANGLE, Bedford-Stuyvesant

    by Kevin Walsh April 2, 2016
    by Kevin Walsh April 2, 2016 4 comments

    A small traffic triangle is formed on the border of Bedford-Stuyvesant and Clinton Hill by long-ago cvil engineers’ insistence on letting Washington Avenue go its own way. South of Atlantic…

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    FREEDOM’S GATE, Bedford-Stuyvesant

    by Kevin Walsh March 12, 2016
    by Kevin Walsh March 12, 2016 2 comments

    Looking somewhat like a horseshoe or, perhaps, Star Trek’s Guardian of Forever is Freedom’s Gate, a sculpture by Philadelphia- based Charles Searles (1937-2004) at Fulton Street and Ralph Avenue at…

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    THE HOWARD, Bedford-Stuyvesant

    by Kevin Walsh March 12, 2016
    by Kevin Walsh March 12, 2016 2 comments

    Howard Avenue runs in Bedford-Stuyvesant and Brownsville. The avenue was named for tavern keeper William Howard (1725-1777) who ran the Rising Sun Tavern at the Jamaica and Cripplebush roads, now…

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    PRUDENTIAL SAVINGS BANK, Bedford-Stuyvesant

    by Kevin Walsh March 5, 2016
    by Kevin Walsh March 5, 2016 0 comment

    The former Prudential Savings Bank on Stuyvesant and Vernon Avenues, just south of Broadway, the border of Bushwick, is a worthy sentinel at the uneasy line separating the two deep-Brooklyn…

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    KRASNER’S PHARMACY, Bedford-Stuyvesant

    by Kevin Walsh October 14, 2015
    by Kevin Walsh October 14, 2015 6 comments

    Vinyl signs that had been installed on a drugstore on the corner of Ralph Avenue and Park Place have recently been removed, revealing a pair of signs from different eras:…

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    CLAVER PLACE, Bedford-Stuyvesant

    by Kevin Walsh September 22, 2015
    by Kevin Walsh September 22, 2015 1 comment

    Claver Place runs for two blocks from Fulton Street north to Putnam Avenue just east of Classon Avenue. Nothing really unusual about it… until you spot the small sign on…

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    MOUNT LEBANON BAPTIST CHURCH, Bedford-Stuyvesant

    by Kevin Walsh August 17, 2015
    by Kevin Walsh August 17, 2015 0 comment

    I had gotten on a C train at Franklin Avenue and I was heading east when I wanted to head west (I rarely make that mistake but transferring from the…

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