CONTINUED FROM WOODSIDE, QUEENS PART 1 “WWRL Radio took to the air at midnight on August 26, 1926 at a frequency of 1160 AM. Blue burlap was draped over the walls of the Reuman parlor at 41-30 58th St. in Woodside, Queens, and a transmitter and antenna were installed in the backyard. The Reumans continued to [...]
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WOODSIDE, Queens, Part 2
October 22, 2005Categorized in: Neighborhoods Tagged with: Queens Woodside
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WOODSIDE, Queens, Part 1
October 22, 2005
By CHRISTINA WILKINSON IN THE 17th and 18th centuries, the area known today as Woodside was filled with swamps, meadows, ponds and forests. A few colonial roads leading from the area’s waterways were forged through by those on their way to better places. A small number of brave souls decided to settle along the way. They [...]
Categorized in: Neighborhoods Tagged with: Queens Woodside
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ROSEDALE, Queens
October 19, 2005QUIET, suburban Rosedale is clustered along the Queens-Nassau County border, between Laurelton in the west and Valley Stream and Woodmere in the east. When visiting the area a couple of years ago, I was struck not by its architecture, which is mostly 50s and 60s suburban sprawl; I was more impressed with its resemblance to [...]
Categorized in: Neighborhoods Tagged with: Queens Rosedale
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OPEN HOUSE NEW YORK 2005
October 15, 2005Open House New York is a once-a-year extravaganza, a public celebration of architecture and design in New York City. Approximately one hundred different locales, many of which would never ordinarily allow your webmaster to darken their doors (if they knew what’s good for them), magnanimously throw open their doors to any and all comers, absolutely [...]
Categorized in: Street Scenes Tagged with: East Village Gramercy Park Manhattan Union Square
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5 ALIVE: 5th AVENUE IN PARK SLOPE
October 8, 2005WHEN I REVISIT Brooklyn’s 5th Avenue, I am going back to a stretch I have traversed thousands of times. Each day between September 1971 and the fall of 1980 (the latter date gets a little fuzzy) I rode the B63 bus up and down the lengthy stretch to get to high school (Cathedral Prep in Bedford-Stuyvesant) [...]
Categorized in: Street Scenes Walks Tagged with: Brooklyn Park Slope
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ROOSEVELT ISLAND 2005
October 1, 2005I USUALLY return to my old pages unannounced. If I have something new on a certain subject I usually just drop it in without really notifying anyone; one day, you’re looking at a page, and the next, why there’s been something added. Keeps people coming back again and again. But when I revisited Roosevelt Island six years [...]
Categorized in: Neighborhoods Street Scenes Tagged with: Manhattan Roosevelt Island