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    AMERSFORT PARK, East Flatbush

    by Kevin Walsh January 21, 2021
    by Kevin Walsh January 21, 2021 13 comments

    “Amersfort” is a fairly well-used Brooklyn name. Like Utrecht, it is Dutch in origin. It’s also used for Amersfort Park, a full city block in East Flatbush defined by Avenues…

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    KOUWENHOVEN LANES

    by Kevin Walsh October 13, 2020
    by Kevin Walsh October 13, 2020 18 comments

    There are plenty of Dutch place names around town … Spuyten Duyvil, Knickerbocker, Onderdonk, and just about every name with a “Van” in front of it from Van Buren to…

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  • Roads

    LINDEN BOULEVARD

    by Kevin Walsh May 26, 2020
    by Kevin Walsh May 26, 2020 22 comments

    From beginning to end, from Brooklyn through Queens and into Nassau County, Linden Boulevard is one of NYC’s lengthiest thoroughfares, running a total of 12.3 miles. However it’s also unique…

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  • Walks

    PARKVILLE TO BROWNSVILLE Part 2

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

    Continued from Part 1 I took a number of walks in mid-December before a 2+ week deep freeze set in after Christmas, and a few of these occurred on some…

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  • One ShotsSigns

    ECONOMY-SIZE STREET SIGNS, East Flatbush

    by Kevin Walsh December 6, 2017
    by Kevin Walsh December 6, 2017 7 comments

    I am planning a feature on a walk I undertook from Parkville to Brownsville, Brooklyn soon enough, but here is a curiosity I couldn’t keep to myself for too long:…

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  • Walks

    CHURCH AVENUE, Flatbush, Part 2

    by Kevin Walsh January 17, 2016
    by Kevin Walsh January 17, 2016 66 comments

    CONTINUED FROM PART 1 When I left off… I had just arrived at the former Kenmore Theater and Beverly Hills Bridal at East 21st Street, a mere block west of…

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  • Walks

    CHURCH AVENUE, Flatbush, Part 1

    by Kevin Walsh January 10, 2016
    by Kevin Walsh January 10, 2016 64 comments

    Brooklyn’s Church Avenue runs from 37th Street between 13th and 14th Avenues on the Borough Park-Kensington border east and northeast to East 98th Street near Brookdale Hospital in Brownsville. The…

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  • One ShotsSigns

    ECONOMY-SIZE STREET SIGNS, East Flatbush

    by Kevin Walsh May 13, 2015
    by Kevin Walsh May 13, 2015 4 comments

    Extra-large Department of Transportation street signs appear at intervals along fast and furious Kings Highway in East Flatbush. I can’t really say, but I imagine the DOT devised this method…

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  • One ShotsTrolleys

    TROLLEY POLE, East Flatbush

    by Kevin Walsh April 6, 2015
    by Kevin Walsh April 6, 2015 3 comments

    I haven’t been down this stretch of Church Avenue in East Flatbush since I was a kid, when my parents and I would take the B35 bus almost all the…

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  • One Shots

    EMMA LAZARUS SCHOOL, East Flatbush

    by Kevin Walsh January 22, 2015
    by Kevin Walsh January 22, 2015 4 comments

    PS 268, on East 53rd Street between Clarkson Avenue and Winthrop Street, bears an image of the Statue of Liberty on its front door, quite fitting because its namesake poet’s…

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  • Street Lamps

    DEMISE OF JAMAICA’S LAMP/STOPLIGHT COMBOS

    by Kevin Walsh February 3, 2013
    by Kevin Walsh February 3, 2013 12 comments

    It’s not surprising, to me at least, that while the Brutalist, unadorned lamppost designs of the 1970s and 1980s are increasingly falling out of favor, their more ornate, scrolled cast…

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  • One ShotsSigns

    BLACK & WHITE

    by Kevin Walsh August 17, 2012
    by Kevin Walsh August 17, 2012 13 comments

    A pair of black and white Brooklyn street signs in East Flatbush. These were standard issue between 1964 and about 1984.

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