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    PULASKI BRIDGE, Newtown Creek

    by Kevin Walsh February 10, 2021
    by Kevin Walsh February 10, 2021 3 comments

    Andrzej Tadeusz Bonawentura Kościuszko isn’t the only Polish Revolutionary-era patriot honored with a bridge across Newtown Creek. Manhattan Avenue formerly connected with Vernon Avenue (now Boulevard) in Long Island City via a…

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    FRANKLIN STREET, Greenpoint

    by Kevin Walsh December 13, 2020
    by Kevin Walsh December 13, 2020 6 comments

    Last week I recounted meandering on Meserole Avenue, one of Greenpoint’s east-west routes, where there were several interesting things to see. The same day, I meandered north up Franklin as…

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  • Walks

    MESEROLE AVENUE, Greenpoint

    by Kevin Walsh December 6, 2020
    by Kevin Walsh December 6, 2020 15 comments

    I can get to Greenpoint pretty easily from Little Neck. Surprisingly easily. All I do is get the LIRR to Woodside, take the #7 to Court Square, go downstairs to…

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  • Neighborhoods

    CROSSING THE K, QUEENS-BROOKLYN Part 2

    by Kevin Walsh September 23, 2019
    by Kevin Walsh September 23, 2019 27 comments

    Continued from Part 1 GOOGLE MAP: WALKING THE NEW K FROM SUNNYSIDE TO GREENPOINT On August 28, 2019, I did something I had never done before: I stood in the…

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  • Walks

    HUNTERS POINT TO GREENPOINT

    by Kevin Walsh August 11, 2019
    by Kevin Walsh August 11, 2019 12 comments

    I was desperate for a ramble with the camera. I have actually been working this summer at a small design shop in the Columbus Circle area, in the building Tommy…

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    FORMAL IN GREENPOINT

    by Kevin Walsh July 2, 2019
    by Kevin Walsh July 2, 2019 1 comment

    For a couple of decades, the Jungle Cafe with its modern green and white facade occupied the corner of 996 Manhattan Avenue at Huron Street, with a clock perpetually stopped…

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  • One Shots

    PINQUIST TOOL & DIE, Greenpoint

    by Kevin Walsh January 11, 2019
    by Kevin Walsh January 11, 2019 0 comment

    Tool manufacturers have been moving away from New York City in recent years as rents rise. Tool and die makers produce jigs, fixtures, dies, molds, machine tools, cutting tools, gauges, and other tools used in manufacturing…

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  • NeighborhoodsStreet Scenes

    WALKING IN NORTH BROOKLYN

    by Kevin Walsh December 23, 2018
    by Kevin Walsh December 23, 2018 9 comments

    Something about North Brooklyn attracts me during the Christmas season. I have done surveys of both Manhattan and Graham Avenues in December. Today, I chose Humboldt Street, as I have a…

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  • One Shots

    50 DIAMOND, Greenpoint

    by Kevin Walsh December 10, 2018
    by Kevin Walsh December 10, 2018 1 comment

    I took a walk from Williamsburg, up the Humboldt Street spine into Greenpoint, enjoying one of the rare clear fall days in December. Pictures from this walk will show up…

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  • One Shots

    GREENPOINT BEND

    by Kevin Walsh November 16, 2018
    by Kevin Walsh November 16, 2018 1 comment

    Seekers of beautiful architecture visit Greenpoint’s India, Kent, Milton, and Noble Streets for their concentrations of classic 19th-century buildings. But my favorite cross street in Greenpoint is Oak, which also…

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  • One Shots

    PENNY BRIDGE ABUTMENT, Hunters Point

    by Kevin Walsh August 7, 2018
    by Kevin Walsh August 7, 2018 5 comments

    Until March 16, 1998 the LIRR stopped at Penny Bridge…admittedly, only three times daily. Trains had stopped at Penny Bridge since 1878; at one time it had a busy Calvary…

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  • Street Scenes

    MEEKER AVENUE, Williamsburg-Greenpoint

    by Kevin Walsh April 22, 2018
    by Kevin Walsh April 22, 2018 9 comments

    By SERGEY KADINSKY Forgotten NY correspondent Whenever a boulevard or highway slashes through the street grid, triangular parcels that are too small to develop are assigned to the Parks Department,…

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