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    COLES STREET, Carroll Gardens

    by Kevin Walsh November 26, 2021
    by Kevin Walsh November 26, 2021 7 comments

    As a rule, I am a passing observer on the daily scene. I don’t discuss politics either here or on social media, as my opinions will infuriate everyone, and today,…

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    LUSO-AMERICAN CULTURAL CENTER, Carroll Gardens

    by Kevin Walsh July 28, 2021
    by Kevin Walsh July 28, 2021 5 comments

    THERE I was, half crazy from the heat and humidity, stumbling around Carroll Gardens on a July weekday, yet another neighborhood that because of income disparity I had no business…

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    MAGIC TOUCH COCKTAIL LOUNGE, Carroll Gardens

    by Kevin Walsh January 4, 2021
    by Kevin Walsh January 4, 2021 1 comment

    The Marvelettes once sang, “My baby must be a magician, ’cause he sure got the magic touch.” It’s possible this former Carroll Gardens hotspot at Hoyt and 3rd Streets was…

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    JOHN RANKIN HOUSE, Carroll Gardens

    by Kevin Walsh August 11, 2020
    by Kevin Walsh August 11, 2020 2 comments

    Just a quickie today, while other pages are in the works… You could do worse than be laid out at the F.G. Guido Funeral Home at #440 Clinton Street, at…

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    JOHN RANKIN HOUSE, Carroll Gardens

    by Kevin Walsh September 27, 2018
    by Kevin Walsh September 27, 2018 0 comment

    Even by Carroll Gardens, Brooklyn, standards, the John Rankin House at #440 Clinton Street at Carroll is impressive. It looks to be a cube-shaped Greek Revival brick building with tasteful ornamentation such…

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    NYC’s RETURN TO HIGHWAY GOTHIC

    by Kevin Walsh December 19, 2016
    by Kevin Walsh December 19, 2016 0 comment

    NYC’s Department of Transportation is gradually — very gradually — replacing its street signs, as many of them go back to the 1980s and are quite sun-bleached (though it seems…

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    KNOW YOUR EILEEN DUG(G)ANS, Carroll Gardens, Woodside

    by Kevin Walsh November 20, 2014
    by Kevin Walsh November 20, 2014 1 comment

    Two otherwise unconnected women whose names are separated by a single letter are remembered on street signs in Woodside, Queens and Carroll Gardens, Brooklyn. In 1995 the corner of 31st…

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  • Walks

    CARROLL GARDENS to PARKVILLE, Part 1

    by Kevin Walsh May 26, 2014
    by Kevin Walsh May 26, 2014 12 comments

    There’s about a 2-week window in the spring and another in the fall when New York City is tolerably walkable. Of course, I will walk in all weather except below…

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    CARROLL PARK WAR MONUMENT

    by Kevin Walsh October 28, 2013
    by Kevin Walsh October 28, 2013 0 comment

    While scuttling through Carroll Gardens last winter, attempting to remain unnoticed with my camera, I found this large war memorial in Carroll Park (between President, Carroll, Court and Smith Streets).…

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    SCENES FROM FORGOTTENTOUR #64, Cobble Hill, Carroll Gardens

    by Kevin Walsh May 1, 2013
    by Kevin Walsh May 1, 2013 1 comment

    On Sunday, April 21, 2013, nearly 35 ForgottenFans gathered for a tour in Cobble Hill and Carroll Gardens, Brooklyn and with sunny, 55 degree conditions, the recent weather winning streak…

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    Center Court: the spine of Cobble Hill and Carroll Gardens

    by Kevin Walsh June 14, 2009
    by Kevin Walsh June 14, 2009 0 comment

    Brooklyn’s Court Street, named for the courthouse buildings downtown, runs from Montague Street and Cadman Plaza West (which was once Fulton Street and was shadowed by the rumblings of that…

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    SMITH STREET, Brooklyn

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

    I recently got an angry note from a ForgottenFan that, as far as I understood it, excoriated me for not yet making it down to Gerritsen Beach for a FNY…

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