Visit Queens in the years 1920 to 1950!
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We’ll take a look at some remaining vestiges of Astoria Village, the riverside town founded by Stephen Ailing Halsey, and make our way southeast along a Revolutionary-era pathway toward the heart of Astoria, seeing historic churches, a one-person graveyard, a park dedicated to Astoria’s Greek heritage, the spot where a well-known movie star grew up, […]
These programs are supported by public funds from the NYC Department of Cultural Affairs; additional support is provided by the membership of the Greater Astoria Historical Society. Tour dates and locations subject to change. All tours run approximately 2-and-a-half hours unless noted. Note: MTA train schedules on weekends, as well as tour dates, are subject to […]
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In a bit of a rush today but I’ll post one of my finds from a recent walk from Jersey City to Hoboken for a Blimpie sandwich (I was successful in my quest). Unlike NYC, the lighting agencies of both cities in NJ facing NYC across the mighty Hudson are not fanatical about replacing outmoded fixtures […]
Categorized in: One Shots Street Lamps Tagged with: Jersey City New Jersey
As stated earlier, I was walking around the Gramercy Park area with friends looking for a diner when, wandering down 20th Street, my eye fell on a couple of items. This is the block that is home to the Theodore Roosevelt Birthplace, which is actually a building constructed in 1916 to look exactly like the […]
Categorized in: One Shots Tagged with: Gramercy Park Manhattan
We were prowling around on a Sunday noon around lunchtime looking for a diner that didn’t have a line out the door (apparently Joe Junior, which I heard had premium burgers, has a wide reputation) and, on the way west on East 20th between Park and Broadway, spotted a large “faded ad” I hadn’t encountered before […]
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Jessie Court is a dead-end on Northern Boulevard on the north side of the street where it meets Browvale Lane, squeezed between a real estate office and a bank. It’s very short; only three houses face it, though it does have access to a private parking lo behind the real estate office. I’ve talked about […]
Categorized in: Alleys One Shots Tagged with: Little Neck Queens
Continued from Part 1 I found myself once again in Port Richmond midweek in December 2016, the subject of a number of FNY forays over the years. The story has been told here many times, but I was well familiar with the area from my youth, when my parents and I would occasionally tale the […]
Categorized in: Neighborhoods Walks Tagged with: Port Richmond Staten Island
Here’s a variety of lamp in NYC getting increasingly rarer. Unfortunately I have no info on the brand, but these began appearing on underpasses in the 1970s when yellow sodium lamps began to proliferate. In most cases they replaced incandescent fixtures such as Westinghouse AK-10 “cuplights.” These lamps feature two lengthy filaments that shine in […]
Categorized in: One Shots Street Lamps Tagged with: Glendale Queens
In the summer of 2015 I strolled down 11th Avenue in Hell’s Kitchen, checking off the boxes: Landmark Tavern on West 46th, still there; Mike Quill Bus depot on West 41st, still there; Market Diner: still there in the summer, but closed in the fall and now demolished; Daily Show studios, between West 51st and […]
Categorized in: One Shots Tagged with: Hell's Kitchen Manhattan
Electrical substations perform a number of tasks including transforming voltage from high to low or vice versa, or generate, transmit or distribute electrical voltage as needed. There are dozens such electrical substations around NYC, and most are rather functional and boring in appearance — except the ones built in the 1930s for the IND, such […]
Categorized in: One Shots Subways & Trains Tagged with: Harlem Manhattan