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    LONG ISLAND RAILROAD ROCKAWAY BRANCH

    by Kevin Walsh April 4, 2000
    by Kevin Walsh April 4, 2000 23 comments

    The Rockaway Line is a mighty good road, the Rockaway Line is the road to ride, to paraphrase the old song. Or rather, it used to be the road to…

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  • Street Lamps

    DWARVES. Lampposts that fit in small spaces

    by Kevin Walsh January 3, 1999
    by Kevin Walsh January 3, 1999 0 comment

    Throughout the five boroughs, there are scattered some streetlamps that look as if they didn’t eat their spinach during their formative years. Their growth seems stunted. Actually, the city has…

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    STOPLIGHT CLASSICS

    by Kevin Walsh May 28, 1998
    by Kevin Walsh May 28, 1998 0 comment

    NYC stoplight design has pretty much been stuck in neutral since the 1960s, when cylindrical posts holding three-light stoplights as well as WALK/DONT WALK signs first appeared on street corners,…

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