QUINCE AVENUE

by Kevin Walsh

I was meandering around the section of Flushing in which the streets are named for plants in alphabetical order from A to R. On Quince Avenue I found this compelling small cottage with a French Second-Empire style mansard roof. This is likely a recent renovation, but unusually for Queens (and I hate to sound condescending about it) it was very tastefully rendered.

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Dave C. July 7, 2012 - 3:22 pm

Beautiful.

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Evan Cooper July 9, 2012 - 8:09 am

Amen. Most of the new stuff going up in the metro New York area is hideous. And why those chrome fences that look like headboards?

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Joe January 6, 2013 - 6:11 pm

I lived a block away from that house when I was a kid. Except for new paint colors, that’s the way it looked in 1949.

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