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    BORO HALL TO BARCLAYS, Brooklyn – Part 2

    by Kevin Walsh September 1, 2014
    by Kevin Walsh September 1, 2014 13 comments

    CONTINUED FROM PART 1 In this preternaturally mild summer [2014] only the exorbitantly high transit fares and my volunteer work at Greater Astoria Historical Society are keeping me from roving…

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    BORO HALL TO BARCLAYS, Brooklyn – Part 1

    by Kevin Walsh August 25, 2014
    by Kevin Walsh August 25, 2014 6 comments

    In this preternaturally mild summer [2014] only the exorbitantly high transit fares and my volunteer work at Greater Astoria Historical Society are keeping me from roving all over town most…

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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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  • CobblestonesOne Shots

    SACKETT, Gowanus

    by Kevin Walsh September 25, 2013
    by Kevin Walsh September 25, 2013 1 comment

    Sackett Street, which is usually found in the pleasant stretches of Cobble Hill and the increasingly tonified Park Slope, also has this dead end stretch off Bond, the at ends…

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  • One ShotsSigns

    KENTILE, Park Slope

    by Kevin Walsh February 15, 2013
    by Kevin Walsh February 15, 2013 3 comments

    The massive Kentile Floors neon sign, built to attract business from the passing IND trains on the viaduct, looms over 9th Street near the Gowanus Canal. It is one of a…

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  • RoadsWalks

    UNION STREET, Brooklyn

    by Kevin Walsh July 3, 2011
    by Kevin Walsh July 3, 2011 1 comment

    New York is full of Unions — not only labor unions, but streets and squares called Union. While Manhattan’s Union Square was named in the 19th Century for the encounter of…

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  • NeighborhoodsRoadsStreet Scenes

    3RD AVENUE: Gowanus, Boerum Hill, Downtown Part 3

    by Kevin Walsh September 19, 2010
    by Kevin Walsh September 19, 2010 0 comment

    One evening in July I had just gotten out of the dentist in downtown Brooklyn — and I am going in and getting out of oral surgeons’ and dentists’ offices…

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  • Forgotten Slices

    COUGH TRIANGLE, Gowanus

    by Kevin Walsh September 14, 2010
    by Kevin Walsh September 14, 2010 1 comment

    I had just crossed the miasmic, fetid Gowanus Canal one recent flaccid, sweat-inducing Sunday, on an August in one of the hottest, most humid New York summers in an uncountable string of them,…

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  • Forgotten Slices

    GOIN’ TO GOWANUS, Brooklyn’s lower Third

    by Kevin Walsh January 23, 2008
    by Kevin Walsh January 23, 2008 0 comment

    Way back in November 2005 I went wandering about the part of Brooklyn that’s not quite Cobble Hill and not quite Park Slope, that was dangerous in the 60s and 70s…

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  • Street Scenes

    THIRD MAN: the Litchfield legacy

    by Kevin Walsh March 8, 2007
    by Kevin Walsh March 8, 2007 2 comments

    It all goes back to those bus rides I used to take with my mother, father or grandmother on the B63 bus in Brooklyn that runs, then as now, all the…

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  • Street Scenes

    LAVENDER LAKE: THE GOWANUS CANAL

    by Kevin Walsh December 3, 2005
    by Kevin Walsh December 3, 2005 10 comments

    Manhattan may have its Canal Street, built over a former waterway draining the equally lost Collect Pond, but Brooklyn has its very own waterway known as the Gowanus Canal bisecting the neighborhood…

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  • Signs

    O BROTHER, WHERE “R” THOU? Neon billboards along the Gowanus Canal.

    by Kevin Walsh May 11, 2001
    by Kevin Walsh May 11, 2001 1 comment

    NEON BILLBOARDS OF FORGOTTEN BUSINESSES So there’s this building in Red Hook with a gigantic neon billboard framework on it, and the other letters of the ad are long gone…

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