I have been thinking about the Interborough Express, a proposed mass transit line connecting Bay Ridge and Jackson Heights running mainly along the rights of way of the NY &…
Midwood
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THERE’S only one street in NYC officially named Walsh (my name) in NYC, the one-block Walsh Court between East 3rd and 5th (East 4th does not intersect) along the LIRR…
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WHEN I lived in Bay Ridge, I would frequently bicycle down Ocean Parkway from Church Avenue to Coney Island. It boasts a world-class bike path and it’s flat as a…
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In 1877, the Brooklyn, Flatbush and Coney Island Railway was incorporated, opening the next year in 1878. It originally ran from the Prospect Park entrance at Flatbush and Ocean Avenues…
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BAY Parkway, which slots in between 21st and 23rd in the list of southwest Brooklyn avenues from 1 to 28, and I have had an off and on relationship. Oddly…
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THIS auto collision repair shop at #1552 McDonald Avenue near Avenue M in Midwood likely does not have a proprietor named Culver. Instead, it is found under the only elevated…
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Continued from Part One EMPLOYING a backlog of photos from the spring of 2019, when I got on the #2 train and took it all the way down to the…
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OLEAN Street, in the heart of Brooklyn in Midwood, runs for two diagonal blocks between East 22nd and East 24th Streets between Avenues N and O. In a confusing situation…
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Once upon a time, telephone customers were assigned alphanumeric telephone numbers. For example, the numbers were such as FOundation 8-3556 (now 368-2556), MOnument 2-2491 (now 662-2491) or NEvins 8-3886 (now 638-3886). The…
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Forgotten Fan Bill Mangahas passed along this photo taken a few years ago by Jay Bendersky of a painted building ad on Avenue J just east of Coney Island Avenue.…
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An unusual item turned up while I was attending a wake on Tuesday (April 16th). I disdain wakes, and I’ll have to make sure I don’t get one. I understand…
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I was fresh from the “Parade of Trains,” an MTA event in which BRT Brooklyn Union Elevated cars from 1900-1910, BRT/BMT Standards and BMT Triplex Cars from the 1920s, and R1/R9…