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    BUCKINGHAM ROAD, Prospect Park South

    by Kevin Walsh August 18, 2019
    by Kevin Walsh August 18, 2019 9 comments

    Prospect Park South was developed at the turn of the 19th-20th Century by upstate New Yorker Dean Alvord, who purchased a parcel of land in Flatbush from the estate of…

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  • One Shots

    JAPANESE HOUSE, Prospect Park South

    by Kevin Walsh August 26, 2015
    by Kevin Walsh August 26, 2015 3 comments

    Prospect Park South’s famed “Japanese house” at #131 Buckingham Road between Church Avenue and Albemarle Road was designed in 1901 and contains carefully adapted Japanese temple detailing including 3 stained…

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    187 MARLBOROUGH ROAD, Prospect Park South

    by Kevin Walsh April 9, 2015
    by Kevin Walsh April 9, 2015 3 comments

    Every house has a story and there are plenty of beautiful houses to be found in Prospect Park South, where FNY toured in spring 2011 — have 4 years passed…

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  • Walks

    CROWN HEIGHTS TO PROSPECT PARK

    by Kevin Walsh September 29, 2014
    by Kevin Walsh September 29, 2014 21 comments

    In August I was on my way to a gathering in Prospect Park South, near the Parade Grounds. Instead of the usual thing, the F train to Church Avenue, I…

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    PROSPECT PARK SOUTH STREET SIGNS

    by Kevin Walsh February 4, 2013
    by Kevin Walsh February 4, 2013 2 comments

    Prospect Park South was developed by Syracusan Dean Alvord, who purchased a parcel of land in Flatbush from the estate of Luther Voorhies and the Dutch Reformed Church in 1898.…

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    PERISTYLE, Prospect Park

    by Kevin Walsh February 4, 2013
    by Kevin Walsh February 4, 2013 1 comment

    Prospect Park, Brooklyn, contains several decorative shelters, protecting parkgoers from both showers and hot weather,  built in the days long before air conditioning. The Peristyle, also known as the Grecian…

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  • Forgotten Slices

    SOUTH OF PROSPECT PARK

    by Kevin Walsh July 23, 2009
    by Kevin Walsh July 23, 2009 0 comment

    It seems as if I have an awful lot of Brooklyn photos laying around — I shot extensively in the neighborhoods and subneighborhoods south of Prospect Park beginning in the fall…

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    FLATBUSH SAMPLER

    by Kevin Walsh June 11, 2008
    by Kevin Walsh June 11, 2008 1 comment

    Once a year the burghers of Brooklyn in the Prospect Park South, Ditmas Park, Fiske Terrace, Midwood Park, and Beverl(e)y Squares East and West neighborhoods open their doors to allow the…

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