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#177877 - 06/30/08 09:39 AM Doctors' Hospital
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#177878 - 06/30/08 10:41 AM Re: Doctors' Hospital [Re: Don Dean]
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#177879 - 06/30/08 01:23 PM
Carpal Tunnel
Registered: 10/17/00
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Loc: rego park
in stony brook (SUNY college town) there is a "yellow blinker road" (it crosses "main road" (ie old coastal road) and presumably got its name from the yellow blinker (a sort of 4 way stop sign) that marks the intersection.--which is a recent development.. (since out side of town, there are no street lights or traffic signals) the main road changes names ever few townships --I think it was actually main street in Stony Brook.. but..
In queens (and in the bronx) there were roads that, while they had 'official names" (used by post office) they were more commonly known by unoffical names
in Little Neck, the back road "the back road" (aka Sand Hill road) was a single lane wide, (at east/little neck parkway end)even though it was a 2 way street.
after about 1000 feet it became 2 lanes wide (i have never before seen the bayshore blvd name--from google map-(or seen a sign of that name.)
sand hill road is through a swamp (wetlands) and some of the houses are were originally slaves homes (slavery was legal in NY till 1830!) and the some of current owners of the houses are decendents of the slaves.
in the bronx, " the back alley was a barely paved road (from one side--Kings bridge/Bainbride Ave (cross street) you could walk down a flight of street stairs.. from the bottom of the hill there was a something like a driveway (coles lane) to Poe place.. )
for most of my childhood, Coles Lane had no street sign, but poe lane, had houses (very small old (colonial) houses fronting on it, did. but no one called it poe lane.. it was the back alley. (there are others, i remember, some have gone (in redevelopment, and others i don't know the zip.. so they are harder to find!)
there is no school lane school.. but place names are funny things.. (FYI, EAPoe did live in that area, (there is the park ) but the house he lived in was on Kingsbridge rd, not in Poe Lane)
Kingsbridge Road continues west, and was the site of a bridge crossing the Harlem river (tidal strait) --original bridge is long gone (as is the KING) but the name lives on!_________________________
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#177889 - 07/01/08 04:31 AM
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Loc: British Columbia, Canada
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#177891 - 07/01/08 07:04 AM
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#177901 - 07/02/08 09:50 AM
Carpal Tunnel
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Loc: Netherlands, the Hague
Dawn Lane?
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