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

    by Kevin Walsh March 18, 2002
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    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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    ABANDONED RAILROAD STATIONS of the Bronx

    by Kevin Walsh March 1, 2001
    by Kevin Walsh March 1, 2001 10 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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    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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