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    ADIOS CLASSIC NEON DRUGSTORE SIGNS, Midwood

    by Kevin Walsh May 9, 2016
    by Kevin Walsh May 9, 2016 7 comments

    On a recent jaunt in Midwood, Brooklyn I made sure to check on a pair of classic neon drugstore signs I’ve been aware of for quite some time. Unfortunately the…

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    FDR’S MISSING MONUMENT, Midwood

    by Kevin Walsh December 9, 2014
    by Kevin Walsh December 9, 2014 7 comments

    President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, the only President elected for four terms, served from 1933 to 1945, seeing the USA through the Great Depression and most of World War II. He…

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  • CemeteriesOne Shots

    WASHINGTON CEMETERY, Borough Park — Midwood

    by Kevin Walsh May 20, 2014
    by Kevin Walsh May 20, 2014 8 comments

    While Green-Wood and perhaps Evergreens get all the Brooklyn cemetery publicity, there’s another one smack in the center of the borough that’s fairly unnoticed, except if you are looking out…

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    DIME SAVINGS BANK, Midwood

    by Kevin Walsh May 15, 2014
    by Kevin Walsh May 15, 2014 4 comments

    There was a time when banks were considered to be impenetrable fortresses where our hard-earned savings were kept, insured against robberies, eminently trustworthy and impregnable. Bank architecture reflected that belief…

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  • Subways & Trains

    AVENUE H, Brighton Line

    by Kevin Walsh April 30, 2014
    by Kevin Walsh April 30, 2014 13 comments

    I’m perhaps late with this one, but word recently trickled back to me that a Forgotten New York favorite, the Avenue H stationhouse, had had a makeover, after it survived a…

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    OCEAN AVENUE, Midwood

    by Kevin Walsh May 21, 2013
    by Kevin Walsh May 21, 2013 11 comments

    I should really do more on Ocean Avenue in Brooklyn. It runs continuously from Flatbush Avenue at Prospect Park all the way south to Sheepshead Bay, standing in for East…

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  • One ShotsSubways & Trains

    THE KINGS OF MANHATTAN and BROOKLYN

    by Kevin Walsh March 25, 2012
    by Kevin Walsh March 25, 2012 6 comments

    Shot from the Kings Highway platform in Midwood, an F train “passes under” the King of All Buildings. The Williamsburg Bank Tower, now One Hanson Place, is seen at right.

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  • One ShotsStreet Lamps

    IT NEEDS A LITTLE SOMETHING

    by Kevin Walsh March 25, 2012
    by Kevin Walsh March 25, 2012 10 comments

    This new Corvington longarm lamp at Avenue R and Kings Highway in Brooklyn was installed missing some scrollwork.

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  • Walks

    CONEY ISLAND to MIDWOOD, Brooklyn Part 1

    by Kevin Walsh December 19, 2010
    by Kevin Walsh December 19, 2010 1 comment

    I head for Coney Island at least once per winter. I like to roam around in the cold wind and hear it whistling in that Astroland tower, the one that…

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  • Walks

    CONEY ISLAND to MIDWOOD, Brooklyn Part 2

    by Kevin Walsh December 19, 2010
    by Kevin Walsh December 19, 2010 2 comments

    CONTINUED FROM PART 1 WAYFARING: CONEY ISLAND TO MIDWOOD  At East 14th Street, the BMT Brighton Line bridges over the Belt Parkway and in an unusual arrangement, a pedestrian walkway…

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  • Forgotten SlicesNeighborhoods

    MIDWOOD, Brooklyn

    by Kevin Walsh March 31, 2010
    by Kevin Walsh March 31, 2010 97 comments

    A quick look at a map of southeastern Brooklyn reveals a nearly unbroken grid of unrelenting monotony, as city planners slavishly copied the Manhattan grid here and in most of Brooklyn. We’re…

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    DAHILL ROAD, Brooklyn

    by Kevin Walsh September 22, 2008
    by Kevin Walsh September 22, 2008 17 comments

    Dahill Road runs in four separate sections in the heart of Brooklyn, in Kensington, Borough Park, Parkville and Mapleton, and serves as the dividing line between two separate street grid systems…

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