05/16/2025
Kingston’s evolving Midtown Linear Park: An unfiltered tour. By Rokosz Most. For all intents and purposes my Green Trail bicycle adventure through Midtown began across the way from Frank Guido’s Little Italy, a Neapolitan restaurant and bar, a local’s favorite.
Attached high up on the exterior of the building, a red boot of Italy traced in neon tubes hangs off the pale yellow brick. The famous peninsula, resembling the silhouette of a hefty gam in ruffled garters, looks less like a bistro and more like an advertisement for a high-kicking can-can — bloomers and knickers joint.
Inside, it’s someone’s birthday. Mylar balloons hover up mid-way in the air.
Just down the block from Tubby’s bar, here in the parking lot across from Guido’s, an .08 mile section of an ADA-accessible asphalted trail begins, said to follow the path of the former Ulster & Delaware Railroad Corridor.
This section of the trail, from Cornell St down to the Kingston Plaza parking lot, is known as the Midline Linear Park and it was Jimmy Ha’s recommendation that I look into it.... Swipe to see more pictures and go to the link in the bio to read the rest of the article.
