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    SHEEPSHEAD BAY BRIDGE

    by Kevin Walsh July 27, 2016
    by Kevin Walsh July 27, 2016 4 comments

    Spanning Sheepshead Bay just west of Ocean Avenue is a weird, wooden bridge with a low fence that looks as if you could easily jump over it into the bay,…

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    OCEAN AVENUE BRIDGE, Sheepshead Bay

    by Kevin Walsh April 25, 2015
    by Kevin Walsh April 25, 2015 6 comments

    Spanning Sheepshead Bay just west of Ocean Avenue is a weird, wooden bridge with a low fence that looks as if you could easily jump over it into the bay,…

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  • Forgotten Slices

    KINGSBOROUGH COMMUNITY COLLEGE, Manhattan Beach

    by Kevin Walsh July 18, 2013
    by Kevin Walsh July 18, 2013 24 comments

    The only community college in Brooklyn, Kingsborough, occupies the east end of the short peninsula south of Sheepshead Bay, at the east end of the Manhattan Beach community. The College…

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  • One Shots

    A DIFFERENCE OF OPINION, Sheepshead Bay

    by Kevin Walsh May 28, 2013
    by Kevin Walsh May 28, 2013 13 comments

    In most parts of the country, this pleasant two-story house at the corner of Voorhies Avenue and East 22nd Street, with a wraparound porch, gables, pitched roof and dormer windows,…

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  • One ShotsSigns

    VINTAGE NO PARKING, Sheepshead Bay

    by Kevin Walsh May 28, 2013
    by Kevin Walsh May 28, 2013 4 comments

    On a telephone pole, hidden behind another pole, on the corner of Sheepshead Bay Road and Voorhies Avenue. Probably first attached there in the 1950s or 1960s — still has…

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  • Forgotten SlicesSubways & Trains

    NECK ROAD STATION, Brooklyn

    by Kevin Walsh February 24, 2012
    by Kevin Walsh February 24, 2012 24 comments

    Southern Brooklyn stations in Midwood and Sheepshead Bay on the BMT Brighton line have all been rehabilitated with new windscreens and lighting, as well as a spruce-up of fare control…

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  • One Shots

    NAME THAT CHECKER

    by Kevin Walsh February 24, 2012
    by Kevin Walsh February 24, 2012 25 comments

    Actually a four-shot today, as I found this battered but unbowed Checker on Gravesend Neck Road east of the el station. What year? The Checker logo depicts land masses that…

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  • One Shots

    ONE ARCH, PLEASE

    by Kevin Walsh September 14, 2011
    by Kevin Walsh September 14, 2011 6 comments

    With one fast food joint or franchise every other block, it’s hard to remember a time when there weren’t a lot of them in New York. I had a meal…

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  • Forgotten Slices

    AVENUE Zzzzzz

    by Kevin Walsh January 27, 2011
    by Kevin Walsh January 27, 2011 0 comment

    I’m kidding, naturally — Avenue Z is no sleepier than any of its brother lettered avenues in south Brooklyn. It runs mostly through the neighborhoods of Homecrest and Sheepshead Bay,…

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  • Walks

    CONEY ISLAND to MIDWOOD, Brooklyn Part 1

    by Kevin Walsh December 19, 2010
    by Kevin Walsh December 19, 2010 1 comment

    I head for Coney Island at least once per winter. I like to roam around in the cold wind and hear it whistling in that Astroland tower, the one that…

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  • Walks

    CONEY ISLAND to MIDWOOD, Brooklyn Part 2

    by Kevin Walsh December 19, 2010
    by Kevin Walsh December 19, 2010 2 comments

    CONTINUED FROM PART 1 WAYFARING: CONEY ISLAND TO MIDWOOD  At East 14th Street, the BMT Brighton Line bridges over the Belt Parkway and in an unusual arrangement, a pedestrian walkway…

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  • Forgotten SlicesRoads

    The TWO SHEEPSHEAD BAY ROADS

    by Kevin Walsh December 22, 2009
    by Kevin Walsh December 22, 2009 12 comments

    There are two Sheepshead Bay Roads in Brooklyn. To add to the muddle, one of them comes in two pieces. The first Sheepshead Bay Road runs from Neptune Avenue and West…

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