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    PULASKI BRIDGE, Newtown Creek

    by Kevin Walsh February 10, 2021
    by Kevin Walsh February 10, 2021 3 comments

    Andrzej Tadeusz Bonawentura Kościuszko isn’t the only Polish Revolutionary-era patriot honored with a bridge across Newtown Creek. Manhattan Avenue formerly connected with Vernon Avenue (now Boulevard) in Long Island City via a…

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    TWO BRIDGES, Harlem River

    by Kevin Walsh November 17, 2020
    by Kevin Walsh November 17, 2020 4 comments

    I have written about Manhattan between the Manhattan and Brooklyn Bridges previously, and way uptown there is also a pair of bridges fairly close to each other that connect two…

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    PENNY BRIDGE STATION, Laurel Hill

    by Kevin Walsh February 28, 2019
    by Kevin Walsh February 28, 2019 0 comment

    When I snapped this shot looking east at Review Avenue and Laurel Hill Boulevard opposite Calvary Cemetery in 2011 I knew that I was taking a photo of one historic…

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  • Forgotten Slices

    SQUIBB BRIDGE, Brooklyn Heights

    by Kevin Walsh January 9, 2019
    by Kevin Walsh January 9, 2019 5 comments

    Squibb Park at Columbia Heights and the BQE overpass was named for Dr. E.R. Squibb (1819-1900), a pharmacologist whose lab was located nearby. Squibb became a major commercial manufacturer; its slogan…

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  • NeighborhoodsWalks

    MANHATTANVILLE TO MOTT HAVEN

    by Kevin Walsh December 30, 2018
    by Kevin Walsh December 30, 2018 4 comments

    I took a quick stroll east on 125th Street, crossing the 3rd Avenue Bridge into Mott Haven, west across the Madison Avenue Bridge back into Harlem again. Got some air…

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  • Forgotten Slices

    OUT WITH THE OLD K

    by Kevin Walsh April 27, 2017
    by Kevin Walsh April 27, 2017 8 comments

    The fifth bridge to cross the noxious and noisome Newtown Creek between the unglamorous neighborhoods of Greenpoint and Blissville opens to traffic as the rickety bucket of bolts known as…

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  • Walks

    PORT MORRIS TO UPPER EAST SIDE via Randalls Island, Part One

    by Kevin Walsh April 3, 2016
    by Kevin Walsh April 3, 2016 10 comments

    During the waning light of November 2015, we had a spectacular midweek day — it could have been the day after Thanksgiving — and word had come about a brand…

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  • Forgotten Slices

    BRIDGING FURMAN STREET, Brooklyn Heights

    by Kevin Walsh August 31, 2015
    by Kevin Walsh August 31, 2015 3 comments

    Furman Street runs north from Atlantic Avenue to Fulton Street along the East River waterfront in Brooklyn Heights. It has undergone two separate areas of feverish activity, separated by an…

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  • One Shots

    MANHATTAN BRIDGE, FNY Tour June 2008

    by Kevin Walsh April 10, 2014
    by Kevin Walsh April 10, 2014 2 comments

    Urban explorer Moses Gates was on hand to tell us how he got to the top of the Manhattan Bridge in FNY’s Two Bridges tour in June 2008. 4/10/14

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    VERNON BOULEVARD BRIDGE

    by Kevin Walsh December 23, 2012
    by Kevin Walsh December 23, 2012 2 comments

    This truss bridge formerly  carried Vernon Boulevard over a Long Island Rail Road open cut at 48th Avenue in Hunters Point. It was torn down in the early 1990s, and…

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    ForgottenTour 34, Manhattan/Brooklyn Bridges, Manhattan/Brooklyn

    by maggiemel June 8, 2008
    by maggiemel June 8, 2008 0 comment

    Your webmaster has a history with the Manhattan Bridge — much more than the Brooklyn, as it turns out. As a kid I lived along the BMT 4th Avenue line, the…

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  • Street Lamps

    ANCIEN REGIME: Before the Corvingtons and Crooks took over, there were all kinds of weird lampposts on the scene

    by Kevin Walsh February 17, 2007
    by Kevin Walsh February 17, 2007 0 comment

    Streetlamps powered by electricity first appeared on New York City streets in 1892, and while from about (as far as your webmaster can tell) the 1930s on, they fell into…

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