MANY Corona and Flushing residents, across the mighty Flushing River from each other, believe Willets Point is located just west of the river, where Citifield is. After all, that’s what…
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From Willets Point Boulevard in the Iron Triangle, a row of auto repair and scrap metal shops just east of Citifield in what is officially Corona, Queens. The area’s only…
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BY ALEXIS BUISSON Guest FNY columnist Describing the “Iron Triangle” other than “a place you would never go to otherwise than compelled to do so” would not be an overstatement. This…
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Union Turnpike evolved from a short road in Glendale called Union Avenue. As it was built east and gained length in the early 20th Century, it was renamed Union Turnpike,…
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Over at NewYorkShitty, Miss Heather has posted a photo of the ugliest new building in New York City: It’s at Gates…
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FORGOTTEN New York hasn’t featured a great deal of interior spaces. I would like to do more, but whenever I’m indoors and start pointing a camera, someone wearing a badge,…
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REVIEW Avenue is an odd route in western Queens, running from Borden Avenue southeast to where Laurel Hill Boulevard meets 56th Road. It runs along the western end of Calvary…
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NOT having a plan is sometimes the same as having a plan. The month of August continually disappoints me. Every year, I call it the month “anything can happen.” It’s…
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2020 marked the first year I hadn’t attended any Mets games at Citifield or Shea Stadium in many years, to my knowledge, but there were just 30 games all year,…
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German immigrant Henry C. Bohack opened his first grocery in 1887 and over the years Bohack developed into one of the first powerhouse grocery store chains. Grand Union, Key Food…
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That might seem to be a simple question. If asked, many Queensites would say it’s at Citifield, because MTA signage for the past few decades has proclaimed the stop between…