A short road zig zags in Jamaica Hills between Parson Boulevard and 162nd Street in Jamaica Hills, a few blocks north of the main drag, Hillside Avenue. It’s a pleasant enough street, lined on both sides with one or two-family homes, and shady street trees. It’s like a lot of New York city streets, normal […]
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Tag Archives: Jamaica Hills
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NORMAL ROAD, Jamaica Hills
March 28, 2018Categorized in: One Shots Tagged with: Jamaica Hills Normal Road Queens
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UNDERSTOOD
February 2, 2013
Park Crescent is a dead end off 86th Road near 164th Street in Jamaica Hills, a neighborhood rife with odd roads and dead ends, many of them connected with the formal Normal School and the old trolley line that used to rumble through. Park Crescent is straight as a string and not a crescent at […]
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JAMAICA HILLS, Queens
December 14, 2008Jamaica Hills has to be one of the smallest neighborhoods I have profiled on FNY. It spans just a few square miles between Grand Central Parkway on the north, Hillside Avenue on the south, Parsons Boulevard on the west, and Homelawn Street on the east — a rather compact area. It sits atop the terminal moraine […]
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