Douglaston was first settled in the colonial era but was built up with numerous Tudor homes in the very early 20th Century.
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SPRING ON DOUGLASTON PARKWAY
March 24, 2012
Categorized in: One Shots Tagged with: Douglaston Queens
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TUDORS of DOUGLASTON
December 3, 2008There’s been a Van Zandt Avenue in Douglaston, my old maps tell me, since 1910 or so, perhaps before that. The street is named for an early area settler, Wynant Van Zandt, whose ca. 1825 dwelling, now the Douglaston Club, still stands on Douglaston Parkway north of the railroad. I was roving through Little Neck and Douglaston a [...]
Categorized in: Neighborhoods Tagged with: Douglaston Queens
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DOUGLASTON, briefly
April 7, 2008Both the MTA and the weathermen blew it on Saturday, April 5th, 2008–the MTA because it usually does, cancelling LIRR trains for trackwork from Shea Stadium to Woodside, and the weathermen, by forecasting rain and drizzle. The sun shone all day long, and there was your webmaster confined to Queens. And found… …a new set [...]
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THE ABANDONED BANK in Douglaston, Queens
September 27, 2007Douglaston Parkway is one of the older roads in its namesake neighborhood in eastern Queens, as you may expect. It was originally known as Alley Road, so named since it ran through “the alley” or a pass in the high hills that run through the middle part of Long Island, a remnant of the southern edge [...]
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ForgottenTour 31, Little Neck/Douglaston, Queens
August 5, 2007ForgottenTours have been, for the past year and a half, typically held under threatening skies, but the weather for the scheduled Tour 31 on July 29, 2007 not only threatened, but delivered, forcing a move to the following Sunday, August 5th. It was perhaps the nicest day of the month so far and so, in a [...]
Categorized in: Neighborhoods Tours Tagged with: Douglaston Little Neck Queens
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PORT WASHINGTON BRANCH Part 2 Auburndale to Port Washington
May 16, 2002CONTINUED FROM PART 1 Auburndale This is possibly the final photograph taken of the “old” Auburndale station. Formerly an at-grade station, the line was placed on an embankment and elevated over 192nd Street in 1929. The station is undergoing a complete renovation including a new platform and waiting room. Auburndale was originally the Thomas Willets farm; [...]
Categorized in: Subways & Trains Tagged with: Auburndale Bayside Douglaston Great Neck Little Neck Manhasset Nassau Plandome Port Washington Queens