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    LITTLE BROTHERS: NYC’s familiar streets..or are they?

    by Kevin Walsh November 28, 2001
    by Kevin Walsh November 28, 2001 1 comment

    We’re going to Broadway today. We’re also going to Park Avenue, Lexington Avenue, Wall Street, Canal Street and several other well-known New York City locales. But since this website is…

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  • You'd Never Believe You're in NYC

    PONDS OF STATEN ISLAND

    by Kevin Walsh October 16, 2001
    by Kevin Walsh October 16, 2001 4 comments

    Down the southeast coast of Staten Island, retreating glaciers not a few millennia ago left a number of small, unobtusive ponds that serve as way stations for migrating shorebirds, as…

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  • Cobblestones

    BANK STREET BRIDGE

    by Kevin Walsh December 21, 1999
    by Kevin Walsh December 21, 1999 0 comment

    Safety considerations have forced the demolition of a Staten Island bridge that had pretty much remained unchanged for the last forty years. It had its original railings, 1960-vintage mercury lamps,…

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  • Street Lamps

    WEDGE WAY IS UP. NYC’s 1960s non glass bowl lamps

    by Kevin Walsh November 9, 1999
    by Kevin Walsh November 9, 1999 0 comment

    Wedges, scoopers, turtlebeaks and nozzles! When the talk turns to street lighting, as it often does with me and Forgotten Fans (remember those cone-shaped things that turned up on bishops…

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