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    SHEEPSHEAD BAY MURAL

    by Kevin Walsh January 25, 2009
    by Kevin Walsh January 25, 2009 4 comments

    Sometimes, NYC history can be preserved in the unlikeliest of ways and in the most unusual places. Take a large mural along East 15th Street in the shadow of the BMT…

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    DUNNE and DOONE PLACES, Sheepshead Bay

    by Kevin Walsh January 5, 2009
    by Kevin Walsh January 5, 2009 0 comment

    The naming of Brooklyn streets — well, NYC streets — is a topic of constant fascination. Well, for your webmaster, at least. A glance at the Brooklyn map in the Sheepshead…

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    SOUTH CONEY ISLAND AVENUE

    by Kevin Walsh May 28, 2008
    by Kevin Walsh May 28, 2008 7 comments

    Coney Island Avenue is among Brooklyn’s lengthiest routes, extending from Ocean Parkway and Parkside Avenue where Prospect Park meets the Parade Grounds and runs generally straight south all the way…

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    BEDFORD AVENUE PART 1: Sheepshead Bay to Flatbush

    by Kevin Walsh June 29, 2007
    by Kevin Walsh June 29, 2007 0 comment

    What’s the longest street that runs entirely in Brooklyn? It seems there are two candidates: Flatbush Avenue and Bedford Avenue. (Any drivers out there want to decide the matter using…

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    SHEEPSHEAD BAY, Brooklyn

    by Kevin Walsh April 1, 2006
    by Kevin Walsh April 1, 2006 85 comments

    When I first started researching NYC history I assumed that Sheepshead Bay was named for its one-time resemblance, in outline, to a sheep’s head. After all, that’s how a peninsula on…

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    SHEEPSHEAD BAY, Brooklyn, Part 3

    by Kevin Walsh April 1, 2006
    by Kevin Walsh April 1, 2006 28 comments

    CONTINUED FROM SHEEPSHEAD BAY, PART 2 We’ve run out of letters The town of Flatbush, absorbed into Brooklyn in the 1890s, had its own tidy street naming system: East and West…

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    SHEEPSHEAD BAY, Brooklyn, Part 2

    by Kevin Walsh April 1, 2006
    by Kevin Walsh April 1, 2006 5 comments

    CONTINUED FROM SHEEPSHEAD BAY, PART 1 Up in the old hotels Brian Merlis, in the title of his Sheepshead Bay book, calls Sheepshead Bay “Brooklyn’s Gold Coast.” After Austin Corbin built…

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    TALES OF THE T-POLES. NYC’s variety of telephone pole lighting fixtures over the decades.

    by Kevin Walsh March 18, 2002
    by Kevin Walsh March 18, 2002 0 comment

    Heavy snow in NYC winters is unpredictable.  A series of winters with little snow can be followed by years of blizzardy winters.  But a fearsome, freak blizzard in early March 1888…

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    SHEEPSHEAD BAY Hidden alleys between the bungalows.

    by Kevin Walsh May 27, 2001
    by Kevin Walsh May 27, 2001 0 comment

    Brooklyn’s Sheepshead Bay, named for the fish that used to be abundant there, has been occupied by Europeans since the 1640s when English noblewoman Lady Deborah Moody planned the village…

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    WONDERFUL WOODIES

    by Kevin Walsh August 23, 1998
    by Kevin Walsh August 23, 1998 0 comment

    Constructed exclusively to light the network of parkways that Robert Moses constructed beginning in the Twenties, these distinctive poles are made of both wood and iron. Some are still in…

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