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    5th AVENUE, Park Slope

    by Kevin Walsh January 10, 2021
    by Kevin Walsh January 10, 2021 11 comments

    Back in October I was roving Brooklyn, Queens and Manhattan quite a bit. In the year of Covid, I resumed roaming about, including riding the subways, at first fitfully in…

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  • One Shots

    PUBLIC SCHOOL 39, Park Slope

    by Kevin Walsh September 25, 2020
    by Kevin Walsh September 25, 2020 1 comment

    In a neighborhood chockablock with rich architectural forms, Public School 39, at 6th Avenue and 8th Street in Park Slope, is a standout even among such nearby treasures as the…

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  • One ShotsSigns

    DESIDERATA, Park Slope

    by Kevin Walsh June 2, 2020
    by Kevin Walsh June 2, 2020 2 comments

    I found several stanzas of Desiderata outside an ice cream shop while staggering around in Park Slope back in 2011. I describe myself as practical and not especially spiritual, but…

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  • Forgotten SlicesMAP ROOM

    DOUGLASS STREET, Brooklyn

    by Kevin Walsh April 16, 2020
    by Kevin Walsh April 16, 2020 13 comments

    As a boy, I took the B63 bus on 5th Avenue with my mother, father, or both, to some downtown Brooklyn destination. Or, sometimes we just took rides, as I…

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  • Subways & Trains

    4th AVENUE IND STATION

    by Kevin Walsh November 18, 2018
    by Kevin Walsh November 18, 2018 11 comments

    I’ve explored the 4th Avenue IND station at 9th Street in Park Slope before for Forgotten New York, way back in 1999 when the station was almost in ruins. Since…

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    PROSPECT AVENUE, Windsor Terrace

    by Kevin Walsh November 4, 2018
    by Kevin Walsh November 4, 2018 35 comments

    Prospect Avenue is the spine of Windsor Terrace, running from 3rd and Hamilton Avenues southeast and south to Ocean Parkway. It’s named for nearby Prospect Park and its high hills…

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  • One Shots

    HUTWELKER BUILDING, Park Slope

    by Kevin Walsh August 10, 2018
    by Kevin Walsh August 10, 2018 3 comments

    The hulking Hutwelker Building (I couldn’t resist) stands at the SE corner of 5th Avenue and 19th Street in south Park Slope, 5 blocks away from Green-Wood Cemetery. A beautiful…

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  • NeighborhoodsWalks

    DOWNTOWN to PROSPECT HEIGHTS, Part 2

    by Kevin Walsh April 8, 2018
    by Kevin Walsh April 8, 2018 9 comments

    Continued from Part 1 Another entry in FNY’s deck-clearing exercise. I took these photos in mid-July 2017, when a front had passed and the dead dog heat and humidity had…

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  • One Shots

    HOUSE THAT GUM BUILT, Park Slope

    by Kevin Walsh December 1, 2017
    by Kevin Walsh December 1, 2017 2 comments

    General Antonio de Santa Anna (1794-1876) led the Mexican Army that defeated a ragtag assembly of about 200 American defenders at the Alamo in what would be San Antonio, Texas…

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  • One ShotsStreet Necrology

    MACOMB STREET, Park Slope

    by Kevin Walsh December 7, 2016
    by Kevin Walsh December 7, 2016 0 comment

    Macomb Street, running between 4th Avenue and Prospect Park West, was probably named for Alexander Macomb Sr. (1748-1831), a prosperous Revolution-era merchant born in Belfast, Ireland. Though he initially had Tory sympathies he…

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  • Forgotten Slices

    CHARLES HIGGINS, Park Slope

    by Kevin Walsh December 2, 2016
    by Kevin Walsh December 2, 2016 3 comments

    A number of years ago, I believe it was in 1999, I interviewed for American Ink Maker Magazine. The business, part of the Cygnus magazine organization, was located in a corporate park…

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  • Neighborhoods

    WINDSOR PLACE, Park Slope & Windsor Terrace

    by Kevin Walsh October 9, 2016
    by Kevin Walsh October 9, 2016 0 comment

    I was on my way to a gathering in Caton Park recently when, noticing I had not been able to walk all that much during the week, decided to walk…

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