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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 72 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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  • Street Lamps

    MID-PERIOD LAMPS. NYC lamppost scene, 1940-1965

    by Kevin Walsh October 8, 1998
    by Kevin Walsh October 8, 1998 0 comment

    In New York City, between the golden age of cast-iron lampposts, approximately 1895 and 1950, and prior to the brave new world of green-white fluorescent bulbs (which held sway between…

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