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    8TH STREET, PARK SLOPE

    by Kevin Walsh December 18, 2022
    by Kevin Walsh December 18, 2022 7 comments

    UNLIKE the late, great Lou Rawls, I’m not a “natural” man. By that I mean that in my walks around NYC, I much prefer the more urban areas, as the…

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  • One Shots

    NEW YORK PUBLIC BATH NUMBER 7, Park Slope

    by Kevin Walsh November 25, 2022
    by Kevin Walsh November 25, 2022 7 comments

    In the days before central plumbing, you had to attend to the necessities somehow. New York City used to feature dozens of public baths. A remaining one, on 268 East…

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  • One Shots

    BROOKLYN’S MARYLANDERS

    by Kevin Walsh March 1, 2022
    by Kevin Walsh March 1, 2022 4 comments

    A State Education Department of New York sign, created in 1952, hangs in front of an American Legion hall at 3rd Avenue and 9th Street, stating that remains of theĀ 1st…

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  • One Shots

    ACME GARAGE, Park Slope

    by Kevin Walsh August 16, 2021
    by Kevin Walsh August 16, 2021 5 comments

    SORRY I “buried the lede” in the title, but I didn’t see any other way around it. In the spring I was wandering in Park Slope, the same day that…

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    PIZZA ON THE SIDEWALK

    by Kevin Walsh August 11, 2021
    by Kevin Walsh August 11, 2021 8 comments

    I don’t feel shame in admitting that I have pizza at least twice a week, usually one slice for lunch or maybe two for dinner. I’m not adventurous, though; I…

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    13th STREET, Park Slope

    by Kevin Walsh August 8, 2021
    by Kevin Walsh August 8, 2021 12 comments

    To me, it’s amusing that while many office buildings do not have 13th floors, the devisors of numbered street grids in Manhattan and Brooklyn have never had problems with the…

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  • One Shots

    THE ANNANDALE, Park Slope

    by Kevin Walsh May 11, 2021
    by Kevin Walsh May 11, 2021 6 comments

    T.S. Eliot’s J. Alfred Prufrock may have measured his life with coffee spoons, but I tend to measure it with old song lyrics. I passed this apartment building at #203…

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  • One ShotsSigns

    7th AVENUE REMNANT

    by Kevin Walsh April 5, 2021
    by Kevin Walsh April 5, 2021 4 comments

    Back in 2012 I was shuffling down 7th Avenue in Park Slope and I spied this glass leaf lettering in a window of an art gallery at #57 7th Avenue…

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    5th AVENUE, Park Slope

    by Kevin Walsh January 10, 2021
    by Kevin Walsh January 10, 2021 12 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 3 comments

    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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    DOUGLASS STREET, Brooklyn

    by Kevin Walsh April 16, 2020
    by Kevin Walsh April 16, 2020 16 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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