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    KOSCIUSZKO BRIDGE, 1939

    by Kevin Walsh November 6, 2022
    by Kevin Walsh November 6, 2022 4 comments

    WHAT was originally called the Meeker Avenue Bridge when it opened in 1939 was renamed the Tadeusz Kościuszko Bridge for the Polish general who aided George Washington during the American Revolution on 9/22/1940;…

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    UNEXPECTED BRIDGES

    by Kevin Walsh January 19, 2022
    by Kevin Walsh January 19, 2022 13 comments

    AWHILE back, Forgotten NY noted some unexpected vehicular tunnels around town on a page that got good response. It got me to thinking about some unexpected traffic bridges around town…

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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 7 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 1 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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    SQUIBB BRIDGE, Brooklyn Heights

    by Kevin Walsh January 9, 2019
    by Kevin Walsh January 9, 2019 6 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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