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    101st AVENUE, Brooklyn

    by Kevin Walsh June 22, 2021
    by Kevin Walsh June 22, 2021 12 comments

    For my purposes the one-block stretch of 101st Avenue between Forbell and Drew Streets is one of the most unusual in the city. Why? Well, it’s the only street in…

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  • One Shots

    WILHELMUS STOOTHOFF HOUSE, Cypress Hills

    by Kevin Walsh July 11, 2018
    by Kevin Walsh July 11, 2018 1 comment

    The oldest house on Jamaica Avenue is at #494, between Elton and Linwood Streets. The house was built a short time after 1800 and was located on the farm belonging…

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  • Street Scenes

    MIXED BAG Part 3

    by Kevin Walsh July 3, 2017
    by Kevin Walsh July 3, 2017 5 comments

    I had fun doing FNY’s second Mixed Bag page from two weeks ago, which featured photos taken in January 2017 on my IPhone, so I decided to do another one…

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  • Forgotten Slices

    WHAT BECAME OF CYPRESS HILLS’ TAXIDERMIST?

    by Kevin Walsh April 28, 2015
    by Kevin Walsh April 28, 2015 7 comments

    There are some parts of town that your ancient Webmaster doesn’t get around to all that much. Cypress Hills is one of those; I do visit National Cemetery from time…

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  • Walks

    FULTON STREET: East New York to Woodhaven, Part 3

    by Kevin Walsh April 12, 2015
    by Kevin Walsh April 12, 2015 7 comments

    Continued from Part 2 I’ve been on Fulton Street a lot. Over a decade ago I learned that the classic restaurant Gage & Tollner, at Fulton and Smith, had just closed,…

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  • Walks

    FULTON STREET: East New York to Woodhaven, Part 2

    by Kevin Walsh April 5, 2015
    by Kevin Walsh April 5, 2015 14 comments

    Continued from Part 1 I’ve been on Fulton Street a lot. Over a decade ago I learned that the classic restaurant Gage & Tollner, at Fulton and Smith, had just closed,…

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  • Walks

    FULTON STREET: East New York to Woodhaven, Part 1

    by Kevin Walsh March 29, 2015
    by Kevin Walsh March 29, 2015 16 comments

    I’ve been on Fulton Street a lot. Over a decade ago I learned that the classic restaurant Gage & Tollner, at Fulton and Smith, had just closed, so I did…

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  • Cemeteries

    NATIONAL CEMETERY

    by Kevin Walsh May 26, 2012
    by Kevin Walsh May 26, 2012 33 comments

    There are a total of seventeen cemeteries in Cypress Hills on either side of the Brooklyn-Queens border. It’s a hilly area, where thousands of years ago a glacier was stopped…

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  • Walks

    WOODHAVEN, Queens to WILLIAMSBURG, Brooklyn Part 2

    by Kevin Walsh January 23, 2011
    by Kevin Walsh January 23, 2011 3 comments

    CONTINUED FROM PART 1     The Road to Ridgewood At Jamaica and Euclid Avenues, a four-lane road, Cypress Hills Street, climbs the glacier-born hills, connecting the vast gulfs that…

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  • Neighborhoods

    WOODHAVEN, Queens to EAST WILLIAMSBURG, Brooklyn

    by Kevin Walsh January 23, 2011
    by Kevin Walsh January 23, 2011 5 comments

    It was a day of crystalline cold in December 2010. The streets were still barren of snow, and no one in NYC yet knew that almost five feet and counting…

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  • Street Scenes

    ELDERT LANE: BROOKLYN-QUEENS LINE

    by Kevin Walsh July 3, 2005
    by Kevin Walsh July 3, 2005 68 comments

    THE BRONX borders Nassau County.Manhattan borders Queens. The Bronx borders Queens, too. Staten Island borders Middlesex County, New Jersey. Suffolk County borders Rhode Island! But these worlds never truly come…

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  • Alleys

    MID- AND EASTERN BROOKLYN ALLEYS

    by Kevin Walsh September 16, 2000
    by Kevin Walsh September 16, 2000 0 comment

    More than any other borough, Brooklyn pretty much adheres to the strict checkerboard grid system that was devised when its six towns coalesced into one city in the late 1800s.…

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