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    DYKER HEIGHTS STROLL

    by Kevin Walsh April 21, 2021
    by Kevin Walsh April 21, 2021 7 comments

    In mid-February 2021, I was once again at my dentist’s office in Bay Ridge for some routine X-rays (no cavities were detected). There’s been a change there. I have been…

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  • One Shots

    ANGEL GUARDIAN HOME, Dyker Heights

    by Kevin Walsh November 11, 2020
    by Kevin Walsh November 11, 2020 1 comment

    Occasionally Dyker Heights will surprise you with an aged building like this one, between 63rd and 64th on 12th Avenue, the Angel Guardian Home (later Mercy First) which sheltered unwed mothers…

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    DYKER AND EIRIK, Bay Ridge

    by Kevin Walsh December 14, 2018
    by Kevin Walsh December 14, 2018 6 comments

    Between 1959-1964, when I was just being formatted, the city bruited the Gowanus Expressway through my neighborhood, which connected the BQE and the Belt Parkway junction at 65th Street and…

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  • Forgotten SlicesRoads

    KINGS HIGHWAY, Bensonhurst

    by Kevin Walsh October 16, 2018
    by Kevin Walsh October 16, 2018 2 comments

    Kings Highway in Bensonhurst? For over a century, Kings Highway has run through a lot of different neighborhoods, but Bensonhurst isn’t one of them. Well, it isn’t anymore. Today, Kings…

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  • One Shots

    DYKER BEACH 1922

    by Kevin Walsh January 3, 2018
    by Kevin Walsh January 3, 2018 6 comments

    The map of Brooklyn has changed surprisingly little, at least on paper, since 1922. One exception to this is in the Dyker Beach Park area, where a number of streets…

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  • One Shots

    FORTWAY THEATRE, Dyker Heights

    by Kevin Walsh December 4, 2015
    by Kevin Walsh December 4, 2015 4 comments

    Though my usual movie theater growing up in Bay Ridge was the Dyker on 86th Street and Gelston Avenue, as a kid I had four theaters to choose from: the…

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    FORGOTTENTOUR #101: DYKER HEIGHTS – LIEF ERICSON SQUARE

    by Kevin Walsh November 9, 2015
    by Kevin Walsh November 9, 2015 8 comments

    ForgottenTour #101, the last of the 2015 season, was held on a brisk Sunday, November 8th, 2015 in what was one of your webmaster’s neighborhoods in earlier days.   Ovington…

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  • One ShotsSigns

    FRENCH CLEANERS, Dyker Heights

    by Kevin Walsh December 25, 2014
    by Kevin Walsh December 25, 2014 3 comments

    I can’t believe I hadn’t noticed this classic awning sign on 8th Avenue and Bay Ridge Avenue in Dyker Heights, since I must have passed it every day on the…

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    DYKER HEIGHTS, in search of the dwindling Blimpie

    by Kevin Walsh April 6, 2014
    by Kevin Walsh April 6, 2014 27 comments

    It’s well-known, at least by me, that among franchised lengthy sandwiches (known by different names in different parts of the country) the Blimpie sandwich is vastly superior to the Subway…

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  • One Shots

    ST. ROCH, Dyker Heights

    by Kevin Walsh March 29, 2014
    by Kevin Walsh March 29, 2014 3 comments

    I was fooled the other day when, stumbling through Dyker Heights, I spotted a lawn icon showing a bit of leg. I was reminded of St. Peregrine of the Friar…

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  • Forgotten Slices

    FIRE ALARMS in Dyker Heights

    by Kevin Walsh March 28, 2014
    by Kevin Walsh March 28, 2014 5 comments

    This decommissioned NYC FDNY fire alarm has stood on the corner of 6th Avenue and 77th Street in Bay Ridge for eons, or at least since I was a wee…

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  • Forgotten SlicesRoads

    DE RUSSY DRIVE, Dyker Heights

    by Kevin Walsh May 14, 2013
    by Kevin Walsh May 14, 2013 1 comment

    Even though I grew up mere blocks away from Dyker Beach Golf Course in Dyker Heights, I have never swung a golf club in my life. Who can afford golf…

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