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    OLD CROTON TRAIL, VAN CORTLANDT PARK

    by Kevin Walsh April 26, 2022
    by Kevin Walsh April 26, 2022 3 comments

    NEW York’s first water system was built between 1837 and 1842. Prior to those years, water was obtained from cisterns, wells and barrels from rain. Construction began in 1837 on…

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    AMALGAMATED HOUSES, Kingsbridge

    by Kevin Walsh December 18, 2021
    by Kevin Walsh December 18, 2021 22 comments

    THE Amalgamated Houses, seen here on Van Cortlandt Park South and Hillman Avenue, was the first union-sponsored housing cooperative in the United States, sponsored by the Amalgamated Clothing Workers Union…

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    PLATFORM LAMP, Van Cortlandt Park

    by Kevin Walsh November 17, 2021
    by Kevin Walsh November 17, 2021 5 comments

    I have begun to pay more attention to platform lighting on elevated subway stations, which comes in a variety of posts from the earliest ornate ones, to the purely functional…

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    BRONX BROADWAY EL, Kingsbridge, Part 2

    by Kevin Walsh December 18, 2016
    by Kevin Walsh December 18, 2016 6 comments

    Continued from Part 1 I’m continuing my “Under the El” series, which recently visited 31st Street in Astoria, with a walk under Manhattan’s last remaining el, which continues on as…

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    WHO IS THAT GUY? Algernon Sydney Sullivan, Van Cortlandt Park

    by Kevin Walsh November 11, 2016
    by Kevin Walsh November 11, 2016 0 comment

    Only a few horse troughs, or drinking fountains, remain around town. I’ve noted ones placed by The American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals and funded by Edith…

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    THE 13 PILLARS OF VAN CORTLANDT PARK

    by Kevin Walsh November 7, 2016
    by Kevin Walsh November 7, 2016 2 comments

    There’s a park trail in Van Cortlandt Park that was once a railroad. It can be reached by walking east through the park directly from the W 242nd Street stop on…

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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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    THE NY CENTRAL PUTNAM BRANCH in the Bronx

    by Kevin Walsh May 3, 1999
    by Kevin Walsh May 3, 1999 10 comments

    In Country Days in New York City, author Divya Summers describes this old commuter line that is now used for another purpose: The Old Putnam Railroad Track, a defunct railroad bad…

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    MID-PERIOD LAMPS. NYC lamppost scene, 1940-1965

    by Kevin Walsh October 8, 1998
    by Kevin Walsh October 8, 1998 0 comment

    In New York City, between the golden age of cast-iron lampposts, approximately 1895 and 1950, and prior to the brave new world of green-white fluorescent bulbs (which held sway between…

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    CORVINGTONS. When a long reach is needed

    by Kevin Walsh April 4, 1998
    by Kevin Walsh April 4, 1998 0 comment

    Once upon a time, New York City avenues were dominated by a long-armed, chocolate-colored cast-iron pole that my fellow lamppost maven Jeff Saltzman (whose site you can reach here) calls…

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    CRESCENT MOONS

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

    There are still a few of them left and some are actually working. “Crescent moon” style luminaires, called “crescents” because of their shape, were in vogue from the mid-40s until…

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