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    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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    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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    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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    A MAJOR LEAGUE WALL

    by Kevin Walsh November 14, 1999
    by Kevin Walsh November 14, 1999 4 comments

    There’s a pretty boring-looking, undistinguished building painted gray along Third Avenue between First and Third Streets at the end of Park Slope, where it meets the Gowanus Canal. Walking past,…

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