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    ALONG THE (OTHER) BROOKLYN WATERFRONT, Part 1

    by Kevin Walsh August 16, 2015
    by Kevin Walsh August 16, 2015 23 comments

    This week I was looking at some photos of the Brooklyn waterfront that I took in 2011 along Furman Street. At that time, Brooklyn Bridge Park had been built out…

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    CLOCKWISE ON 17th AVENUE

    by Kevin Walsh January 12, 2012
    by Kevin Walsh January 12, 2012 8 comments

    I was dazedly shambling about in Bensonhurst in August, mad with the unbearable 82-degree heat, and in a momentary spark of lucidity, I noticed a tailor shop across from the…

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    86th STREET in Bensonhurst

    by Kevin Walsh December 25, 2011
    by Kevin Walsh December 25, 2011 534 comments

    I mean, one of these days, to walk 86th Street from the Narrows to Gravesend. It is the main east-west street in southwest Brooklyn, and contains many secrets of old.…

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    The heart of NEW UTRECHT

    by Kevin Walsh February 10, 2010
    by Kevin Walsh February 10, 2010 28 comments

    On the second leg of my quick Bensonhurst trip, I wandered down 84th Street into the heart of ancient New Utrecht. Brooklyn, now co-terminous with Kings County, was once just one, albeit the most…

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    BENSONHURST BRIEFLY

    by Kevin Walsh February 8, 2010
    by Kevin Walsh February 8, 2010 2 comments

    I lived in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn for 35 years, the last time in 1993 when I gravitated to Queens. I now live on the borderline of Queens and Nassau County. I…

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    18th AVENUE, Brooklyn

    by Kevin Walsh February 10, 2008
    by Kevin Walsh February 10, 2008 1 comment

    Your webmaster lived in Bay Ridge between 1957 and 1993 (with an neighborhoodus interruptus in Dyker Heights in 1990-1991) and yet, the adjacent region to the east, Bensonhurst, the vast…

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