Not a Photoshop filter — the intersection of Broadway and 73rd Street in Jackson Heights, through a colored window panel at the Bway-74th Street el station.
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Tag Archives: Jackson Heights
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THROUGH A GLASS YELLOWY
September 9, 2011
Categorized in: One Shots Tagged with: Jackson Heights Queens
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JACKSON MILL ROAD TRACKS
August 15, 2010Categorized in: Alleys Trolleys Tagged with: Jackson Heights Queens
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LENT RIKER SMITH MANSION
September 24, 2006“From the moment I met Michael, and saw that house, it was a labor of love.” –Marion Duckworth Smith It’s almost maddeningly impossible to find. The closest subway is approximately 35 blocks away. It’s surrounded on 3 sides by a high school, stockade fencing and barbed wire. The nearest businesses are bail bonds joints. It’s situated [...]
Categorized in: Street Scenes Tagged with: Jackson Heights Queens
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JACKSON HEIGHTS and EAST ELMHURST, Queens – Part 2
April 15, 2006CONTINUED FROM JACKSON HEIGHTS/EAST ELMHURST PART 1 Name That Plane Vaughn College of Aeronautics and Technology, between Ditmars Blvd., 23rd Avenue and 90th Street, has quite the little collection of planes parked in the back. There have to be some Forgotten Fans that can identify one or two. If you’re in the area, wander over [...]
Categorized in: Neighborhoods Tagged with: East Elmhurst Jackson Heights Queens
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JACKSON HEIGHTS and EAST ELMHURST, Queens
April 15, 2006In a borough largely ignored by NYC’s Landmarks Preservation Commission, the magnificent garden apartments of Jackson Heights are a happy exception. Today’s Jackson Heights is a neighborhood of handsome six-story co-operative apartments, most of which surround a central garden. They appeared, seemingly out of nowhere, beginning in 1914 when the entire area was not much more [...]
Categorized in: Neighborhoods Tagged with: East Elmhurst Jackson Heights Queens
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MERCURY FALLING: 1960s luminaires disappearing, in NYC at least
February 4, 2006In 1963, the life of a 6-year-old lamppost enthusiast changed irrevocably: the cast iron Type 24M “Corvington” poles that had dominated the streets of Bay Ridge disappeared seemingly overnight, with mostly all of them replaced by streamlined aluminum poles with octagonal shafts. Most of the shafts were topped by straightarm masts, some by cobra-necked ones, and [...]
Categorized in: Street Lamps Tagged with: Bronx Brooklyn Fort Schuyler General Electric Hoboken Jackson Heights Madison Square McCarren Park Queens Rosedale Westinghouse
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HOW TO FRAME A CROOK. How the Department of Transportation defaced classic cast iron poles in the 1980s.
August 1, 2001Before the days when the New York City Department of Transportation began to install replicas of classic bishop-crook, “Corvington” long-armed lamps and twinlamp designs, they defaced still-standing classic lampposts that were installed anywhere from 1892 to 1940 with bright sodium “bucket light” fixtures. They were put there in the early 1980s to replace incandescent bulbs in [...]
Categorized in: Street Lamps Tagged with: 6th Avenue Bishop Crooks Chinatown Jackson Heights Manhattan Queens Soho
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DWARVES. Lampposts that fit in small spaces
January 3, 1999Throughout the five boroughs, there are scattered some streetlamps that look as if they didn’t eat their spinach during their formative years. Their growth seems stunted. Actually, the city has valid reasons to install such short poles. The above pictures were taken in the vicinity of 23rd Avenue and 82nd Street near LaGuardia Airport. Lampposts [...]
Categorized in: Street Lamps Tagged with: Jackson Heights Jamaica Ozone Park Queens Ridgewood