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  • Alleys

    MARGARET COURT, HOMECREST

    by Kevin Walsh May 17, 2024
    by Kevin Walsh May 17, 2024 12 comments

    FOR years I had hunted Margaret Court. No, not the famed Australian tennis champion in the 1960s and 1970s. I was seeking a short alley in Homecrest, a subdivision of…

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  • Neighborhoods

    BRIGHTON INTERRUPTION

    by Kevin Walsh May 15, 2024
    by Kevin Walsh May 15, 2024 7 comments

    In 1877, the Brooklyn, Flatbush and Coney Island Railway was incorporated, opening the next year in 1878. It originally ran from the Prospect Park entrance at Flatbush and Ocean Avenues…

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  • MAP ROOM

    TOWN OF NEW UTRECHT 1852

    by Kevin Walsh May 13, 2024
    by Kevin Walsh May 13, 2024 8 comments

    ANCIENT New Utrecht, Brooklyn, now co-terminous with Kings County, was once just one of six towns that made up Kings County, delineated by British rulers in 1683. “Kings” refers to the…

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  • Walks

    BAY PARKWAY, BENSONHURST

    by Kevin Walsh May 12, 2024
    by Kevin Walsh May 12, 2024 10 comments

    BAY Parkway, which slots in between 21st and 23rd in the list of southwest Brooklyn avenues from 1 to 28, and I have had an off and on relationship. Oddly…

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  • Signs

    ORIGINAL STREET SIGN, BROOKLYN HEIGHTS

    by Kevin Walsh May 9, 2024
    by Kevin Walsh May 9, 2024 3 comments

    GRADUALLY, my photos of Livingston Street that I fired off at the end of my Nevins Street walk are leaching out. This is at the very beginning of Livingston, at…

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  • One Shots

    REMEMBERING WEST WOOD

    by Kevin Walsh May 7, 2024
    by Kevin Walsh May 7, 2024 3 comments

    UNTIL 2015, this had been a very special sidewalk on the west side of West between Milton and Noble, since it was the only sidewalk paved with wood blocks embedded…

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  • Neighborhoods

    BAY PARKWAY STATION, BENSONHURST

    by Kevin Walsh May 6, 2024
    by Kevin Walsh May 6, 2024 2 comments

    I don’t have a lot of time before heading to bed around midnight as usual, but here’s a preview of my Bay Parkway page, which will appear soon, perhaps as…

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  • MAP ROOM

    OLD ROADS OF BROWNSVILLE

    by Kevin Walsh May 1, 2024
    by Kevin Walsh May 1, 2024 9 comments

    TIME once again to look at some ancient maps depicting the New York City of long ago. Here’s a map excerpt of the area where East Flatbush, Brownsville and East…

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  • Subways & Trains

    CONNECTING RAILROAD TRACKS, DUMBO

    by Kevin Walsh April 30, 2024
    by Kevin Walsh April 30, 2024 5 comments

    On December 31, 2023 I ventured into DUMBO, north of downtown Brooklyn, a formerly chiefly industrial region now a hotbed of expensive residences, retail and even a branch of the…

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  • One Shots

    WILLAMSBURG(H) LIBRARY

    by Kevin Walsh April 25, 2024
    by Kevin Walsh April 25, 2024 3 comments

    In 1901, the Scottish philanthropist/industrialist Andrew Carnegie Foundation gave $5.2 million to New York City for its libraries across the five boroughs. This started a remarkable project that would go…

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  • Street Lamps

    THE WILLIAMSBURGS

    by Kevin Walsh April 24, 2024
    by Kevin Walsh April 24, 2024 1 comment

    IT’S been donkey’s years since I’ve done an in-depth look at the lamps I call The Williamsburgs, or The Willies for short. They are colored blue (no other NYC lamppost…

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  • One Shots

    TRIANGLE SPORTS, 2024

    by Kevin Walsh April 22, 2024
    by Kevin Walsh April 22, 2024 10 comments

    FLATBUSH Avenue cuts across the Park Slope grid on a diagonal, making it a convenient place to put a subway line and indeed, two separate subway lines employ it, the…

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