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    GREEN LANTERNS, GREENWOOD HEIGHTS

    by Kevin Walsh October 17, 2024
    by Kevin Walsh October 17, 2024 6 comments

    MOST police precincts in NYC display two green lamps at the entrance. The tradition of green lights dates back to colonial times.

 According to the NYPD website, “It is believed…

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    BRIQ BUILDING, GREENWOOD HEIGHTS

    by Kevin Walsh October 16, 2024
    by Kevin Walsh October 16, 2024 1 comment

    MAN, I’m digging the old brick factory buildings in “South Brooklyn” that have since been repurposed. 132 32nd Street between 3rd and 4th Avenues is just such a building, a…

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    EMPIRE SWITCHBOARD, GREENWOOD HEIGHTS

    by Kevin Walsh October 15, 2024
    by Kevin Walsh October 15, 2024 7 comments

    PLAIN, unadorned brick buildings, as Bernie Taupin/Elton John would put it, say so much. They are gradually disappearing around town, with those that haven’t been adapted for residential use are…

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  • One Shots

    ST. MARK’S CHAPEL, Greenwood Heights

    by Kevin Walsh October 16, 2020
    by Kevin Walsh October 16, 2020 10 comments

    Today I have another mystery in Greenwood Heights, matching FNY’s earlier one regarding blue pavings stones from Spain. Like many mysteries, its secret is given up but grudgingly and I’ve…

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  • Cobblestones

    SPANISH BRICKS, Greenwood Heights

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

    Surprisingly, there’s a lot for me to write about on 37th Street between 4th and 5th Avenue, a street on the borders of both Sunset Park and Greenwood Heights, that…

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  • One Shots

    WEIR GREENHOUSE, Greenwood Heights

    by Kevin Walsh September 29, 2020
    by Kevin Walsh September 29, 2020 5 comments

    Work continues — albeit at what seems to be a snail’s pace — at rehabilitating the landmarked Weir Greenhouse at 5th Avenue and 25th Street, opposite Green-Wood Cemetery’s main entrance;…

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    WEMPLE WINDOW SHADES, Greenwood Heights

    by Kevin Walsh September 28, 2020
    by Kevin Walsh September 28, 2020 4 comments

    I was wandering around in that nebulous area of Brooklyn between the waterfront and Green-Wood Cemetery, between about 24th and 36th Streets. This area had never been identified as part…

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  • Walks

    BEFORE THE SUNSET: 4th Avenue and 39th Street

    by Kevin Walsh February 12, 2017
    by Kevin Walsh February 12, 2017 3 comments

    Sunset Park’s boundaries are under dispute (like any other Brooklyn neighborhood) but to me it’s rather simple: Upper New York Bay waterfront, 39th Street, 9th Avenue, the Bay Ridge Branch…

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  • CemeteriesTours

    FORGOTTENTOUR 49: GREEN-WOOD CEMETERY

    by Kevin Walsh October 19, 2011
    by Kevin Walsh October 19, 2011 9 comments

    Green-Wood Cemetery, in Brooklyn between the neighborhoods of Park Slope, Sunset Park, Windsor Terrace and Kensington, has proven to be a Forgotten favorite — this was the 3rd such Green-Wood…

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  • Neighborhoods

    GREEN-WOOD HEIGHTS, Brooklyn Part 2

    by Kevin Walsh May 13, 2006
    by Kevin Walsh May 13, 2006 3 comments

    CONTINUED FROM GREEN-WOOD HEIGHTS PART 1 5th Avenue The stretch of Fifth Avenue along Green-Wood cemetery is by far its quietest, sandwiched between its incredibly bustling areas on either end: Park…

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    GREEN-WOOD HEIGHTS, Brooklyn

    by Kevin Walsh May 13, 2006
    by Kevin Walsh May 13, 2006 0 comment

    I confess. “Green-Wood Heights” is a name concocted by real-estaters stumped about what to call the area on the NW side of Green-Wood Cemetery between Park Slope and Sunset Park. Some…

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