Visit Queens in the years 1920 to 1950!
Forgotten New York was the first-ever recipient of Outstanding New York City Website by the Guides Association of New York City in March 2015!
Forgotten New York is associated with the Greater Astoria Historical Society
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Elevator -- Four blocks from N, R, Q, M service. 15 minutes from mid-town. 2 blocks from Kaufman Arts Center. email info@astorialic.org or call 718-278-0700.
Now in its tenth year, Forgotten New York The Book is your bible to a New York City the other guidebooks won't touch.
Nestled in the middle of Jamaica Bay is an island community known as Broad Channel. It is the province of seagulls, roaring jets taking off from Kennedy Airport, The Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge, and a proud, insular neighborhood that claims what it can from the bay, occasionally jutting into it by building on stilts. Unlike […]
Categorized in: Neighborhoods You'd Never Believe You're in NYC Tagged with: Broad Channel Queens
Trolley tracks aren’t the only remnants of former trolley lines that are still dotting the city landscape. The poles that carried the electric power supply are still here and there. Many stand rusting and forgotten, but at left, one such pole at Flushing and Onderdonk Avenues, Ridgewood, Brooklyn (LEFT) , is now employed to carry telephone […]
Categorized in: Trolleys
This is the former New York and Queens Railroad Company trolley barn. It was built in 1896 to serve the fledgling NY & QRC, which was formed that year when the Steinway Railway Company and Newtown Railroad Company sold out to a delegation of Philadelphia investors interested in building a trolley line in Queens. The towers […]