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    PLATFORM LAMP CHANGES

    by Kevin Walsh September 21, 2020
    by Kevin Walsh September 21, 2020 1 comment

    Change is coming to elevated train platform lamps, and for me, esthetically at least, not for the better. Here’s a decades-old view of the Myrtle Avenue elevated platform on the…

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    MYRTLE AVENUE AT JAY STREET, 1971

    by Kevin Walsh May 20, 2019
    by Kevin Walsh May 20, 2019 5 comments

    Bill Newkirk of Newkirk Images sent this photo over of Myrtle Avenue at Jay Street looking east. Just about everything in this photo except the building on the left, #88…

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  • One ShotsSubways & Trains

    MYRTLE AND DUFFIELD, Downtown Brooklyn 1943

    by Kevin Walsh January 2, 2018
    by Kevin Walsh January 2, 2018 5 comments

    Myrtle Avenue, which runs from MetroTech in downtown Brooklyn all the way out east to Jamaica Avenue at Lefferts Boulevard in Queens, represents a lost opportunity for me, a treasure…

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    WITHERING MYRTLE. The last days of the Myrtle Avenue El.

    by Kevin Walsh December 9, 2007
    by Kevin Walsh December 9, 2007 0 comment

    October 4, 1969. The Mets beat the Atlanta Braves in Atlanta 9-5, beginning a ‘miraculous’ postseason run for the Amazin’s in which they won 7 of 8 games against the…

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