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    PARKWAY VILLAGE, Kew Gardens Hills

    by Kevin Walsh July 23, 2020
    by Kevin Walsh July 23, 2020 9 comments

    About 13 years ago, when I was looking around for a new place in Queens after 14 years on the Flushing-Auburndale border, I took a look at Parkway Village, which…

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    PARSONS BOULEVARD, Flushing-Jamaica

    by Kevin Walsh April 16, 2018
    by Kevin Walsh April 16, 2018 24 comments

    Parsons Boulevard is one of Queens’ lengthier roads, although NYC’s various traffic agencies and city planners haven’t shown it a great amount of respect. It begins way up north in…

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    WESTINGHOUSE AK-10, Kew Gardens Hills, 1999

    by Kevin Walsh March 27, 2017
    by Kevin Walsh March 27, 2017 4 comments

    In 1999 I was walking on the north side of Union Turnpike where it splits in two and becomes the service road for the Interborough (Jackie Robinson) Parkway and then…

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    KISSENA BOULEVARD, Part 2

    by Kevin Walsh March 8, 2015
    by Kevin Walsh March 8, 2015 33 comments

    Continued from Part One On a late winter Sunday in February 2015, cabin-fevered from weeks of cold and ice (I complain equally bitterly about summers when they are hot and…

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    KISSENA BOULEVARD, Part 1

    by Kevin Walsh March 1, 2015
    by Kevin Walsh March 1, 2015 4 comments

    On a late winter Sunday in February 2015, cabin-fevered from weeks of cold and ice (I complain equally bitterly about summers when they are hot and humid for weeks on…

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    UNION TURNPIKE LAMP SURVIVOR

    by Kevin Walsh December 26, 2012
    by Kevin Walsh December 26, 2012 0 comment

    Octagonal-shafted lampposts didn’t appear on NYC streets until 1950. They are now the predominant, go-to lampposts of NYC and have supported a flock of different luminaires over the years. They…

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