ARE my eyes deceiving me here at the Brooklyn Queens Expressway where Boody Street meets Astoria Boulevard at the Art Moderne Bulova Corporate Center? They must be. How else can these Nassau County-style longarmed stoplight stanchions be here in Queens County, miles away from Nassau? How did they get here? Why are they here? Your guesses are entertained in Comments. Is the NYC Department of Transportation about to begin employing the Nassau lights and replace the guy-wired poles whose design is more or less unchanged since the early 1950s? Can it be?
Boody Street is another mystery, as it is the name the DOT has on street signs for the BQE service lane between 31st Avenue and Astoria Boulevard. The name appears on maps as early as 1940, as a dead end stub on Astoria Boulevard, long before the BQE was constructed here. Who was Boody? My guess is a traffic engineer they wanted to honor in some way.
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12/14/21