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    WALK THE PLANKS, Broad Channel

    by Kevin Walsh November 5, 2021
    by Kevin Walsh November 5, 2021 15 comments

    YOU can walk the planks to get home in Broad Channel, as 12th Road is actually a plank walk to a group of homes on stilts in this very marshy…

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  • You'd Never Believe You're in NYC

    BROAD CHANNEL, 2016

    by Kevin Walsh March 27, 2016
    by Kevin Walsh March 27, 2016 28 comments

    I’ll admit it. Broad Channel, other than damage caused by Hurricane Sandy in 2012, or a couple of businesses closing here and there, is the pretty much the same Broad…

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  • Subways & Trains

    COME ON IN More subway oddities

    by Kevin Walsh October 4, 2009
    by Kevin Walsh October 4, 2009 0 comment

    My fascination with the NYC subway’s infrastructure continues unabated and my love affair with the subways remains unrequited. That is made clear every weekend, when the MTA runs most lines completely…

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  • Neighborhoods

    BROAD CHANNEL, Queens

    by Kevin Walsh March 16, 2008
    by Kevin Walsh March 16, 2008 0 comment

    March 2008: Believe it or not we’re beginning to consider Forgotten NY in terms of decades. Your webmaster first conceived of FNY in 1998 and did a lot of principal photography…

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  • NeighborhoodsYou'd Never Believe You're in NYC

    BROAD CHANNEL. Queens’ island neighborhood

    by Kevin Walsh September 27, 1998
    by Kevin Walsh September 27, 1998 0 comment

    Nestled in the middle of Jamaica Bay is an island community known as Broad Channel. It is the province of seagulls, roaring jets taking off from Kennedy Airport, The Jamaica…

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