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5/5. West Broadway runs from Vesey Street north to West Houston, where it becomes LaGuardia Place for a few blocks before ending at Washington Square Park. It once plunged into the park to connect with 5th Avenue (and some of West Broadway was renamed South 5th for a while) but the connection was severed in the mid-20th Century; Robert Moses was always proposing a revival of that link, but it was finally defeated in 1969. While the construction of the World Trade Center from 1968-1974 eliminated many streets and parts of others, West Broadway always began at Vesey and Greenwich Streets, and so none of it was ever de-mapped....

5/12. Breakdown Records is in Bayside Hills, actually the southern portion of Bayside, a large neighborhood in northeastern Queens (I'll have a larger treatment of Bayside in the offing). Bayside Hills is the rectangle described by Northern Blvd., the Long Island Expressway, the Clearview Expressway, and Springfield Boulevard. It's largely a quiet neighborhood with separate homes with wide lawns and yards, and many of the streets have center green medians. Of course, there are incursions of modern development happening, which means concrete lawns, exposed air conditioners and meters, and unimaginative construction. There are also surprising pockets of rurality remaining in Bayside Hills, and even a couple of samples of notable architecture around...
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5/15. 3rd Avenue. Punks? In Bay Ridge?
5/13. Alleys of Chinatown
4/16. Dixon Mills, pencil factory gone upscale
4/2. O and P Street trolley tracks in Georgetown, DC

YOUR WEBMASTER: Kevin Walsh CORRESPONDENTS: Christina Wilkinson, Gary Fonville

SAVING ST. SAVIOUR'S
Maspethians Helen Laurenti, Paul Ditta and FNY Correspondent Christina Wilkinson display a rendering of a plan to restore Maspeth's 160-year-old church. AMNY photo

The latest in the fight to save Maspeth's 160-year old church

THE GOOD, THE BAD and THE UGLY: the battle so far, by Christina

SAVE RIDGEWOOD RESERVOIR

SAVE BAY RIDGE UNITED METHODIST CHURCH

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