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    MORRIS PARK, Queens

    by Kevin Walsh August 2, 2020
    by Kevin Walsh August 2, 2020 10 comments

    By SERGEY KADINSKYForgotten NY correspondent A great avenue deserves a great gateway and some of New York’s famous roads have iconic monuments or parks at their starting points. But most…

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    WILLIAMSBRIDGE WALK

    by Kevin Walsh July 5, 2020
    by Kevin Walsh July 5, 2020 12 comments

    Little did I know that my February 2020 foray into the mid-Bronx (Morris Park, Allerton, and Williamsbridge) would be my final Bronx walk for what appears will be at least…

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    MORRIS PARK, Bronx

    by Kevin Walsh January 27, 2019
    by Kevin Walsh January 27, 2019 26 comments

    I hadn’t sallied up Morris Park Avenue in the Bronx for some time — not since 2006-7 or so, and on this sort of hangdog afternoon on either side of…

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  • Subways & TrainsWalks

    MORRIS PARK to CROTONA EAST

    by Kevin Walsh July 7, 2013
    by Kevin Walsh July 7, 2013 30 comments

    I decided to check out the new East 180th Street subway stop on the White Plains/Dyre Avenue Line (#2/#5 lines in the Bronx — after a couple of years’ construction,…

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  • AdsOne Shots

    NOTHING COUND BE FINO, Morris Park

    by Kevin Walsh June 14, 2013
    by Kevin Walsh June 14, 2013 4 comments

    US Representative Paul Fino (1913-2009) was elected to the State Senate from 1946-1950 and elected to Congress in 1952, where he served 8 terms, and then the State Supreme Court in…

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  • One ShotsStreet Lamps

    AN UNHOLY ALLIANCE

    by Kevin Walsh December 25, 2012
    by Kevin Walsh December 25, 2012 3 comments

    Since the Corvington Longarm Type 24M — and other old forms such as the bishop crook and Type F lights — were reintroduced to NYC streets beginning in the 1980s,…

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  • Neighborhoods

    MORRIS PARK, Bronx

    by Kevin Walsh August 20, 2006
    by Kevin Walsh August 20, 2006 104 comments

    As a neighborhood, Morris Park, located in what’s about the exact center of the Bronx, appears to be one of the borough’s most stable and long-standing, but it’s actually only a…

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  • Street Lamps

    TALES OF THE T-POLES. NYC’s variety of telephone pole lighting fixtures over the decades.

    by Kevin Walsh March 18, 2002
    by Kevin Walsh March 18, 2002 0 comment

    Heavy snow in NYC winters is unpredictable.  A series of winters with little snow can be followed by years of blizzardy winters.  But a fearsome, freak blizzard in early March 1888…

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  • Subways & Trains

    STATION HOUSES of the Dyre Avenue Line

    by Kevin Walsh October 13, 2001
    by Kevin Walsh October 13, 2001 0 comment

    STATIONS OF THE N.Y.W.B (Dyre Avenue Line) Between East 180th Street and Dyre Avenue near the Westchester county line, the IRT #5 runs along an abandoned railroad, the New York, Westchester…

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  • Subways & Trains

    ABANDONED RAILROAD STATIONS of the Bronx

    by Kevin Walsh March 1, 2001
    by Kevin Walsh March 1, 2001 8 comments

    The Bronx is the only mainland borough in New York City, and in the golden age of railroads it had plenty of freight and passenger routes that served upstate New…

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  • Alleys

    SHADY SHRADY and other Bronx lanes

    by Kevin Walsh June 10, 1999
    by Kevin Walsh June 10, 1999 0 comment

    The Bronx is not to be outdone when it comes to obscure alleys and lanes. Some are in leaf-filled enclaves like Riverdale and others are to be found in teeming…

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  • Subways & Trains

    THE NEW YORK, WESTCHESTER and BOSTON RAILROAD

    by Kevin Walsh May 3, 1999
    by Kevin Walsh May 3, 1999 5 comments

    Bargain of the Century The #2 and #5 north from East 180th Street to Dyre Avenue wasn’t always a subway. It used to be a full fledged railroad.   The impressive…

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