I don’t have any particularly new historic information to impart about the Queens Boulevard Flushing Line Viaduct in Sunnyside, except that I thought this photo I got in late 2020…
"queens boulevard"
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Queens Boulevard is possibly the fastest and furious-est, most pedal to the metal grade level road in Queens, other than an expressway. It roars from the tangle of elevated train…
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During the ForgottenTour on September 21, 2013, I discussed the Mary Sendek House at Queens Boulevard, which forced Macy’s to build a “notch” in their Moderne circular building. I was…
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The concrete-cladded viaduct that takes the IRT #7 Flushing Line down the middle of Queens Boulevard in Sunnyside was built in 1917, and in the mid-1990s was treated to a…
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In 2005 FNY did a 2-part survey of Queens Boulevard, a borough aorta running from Queens Plaza, the landing point of the Queensboro Bridge, all the way to Jamaica. Looking…
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CONTINUED FROM PART 1 WHEN ITÂ reaches Union Turnpike, the Jackie Robinson Parkway and the Van Wyck Expressway in Kew Gardens, Queens Blvd. begins its slow process of winding down. Quiet…
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WHETHER it wants to admit it or not, the Department of Transportation’s main function is the movement of motor vehicles; to enable them to move as quickly as possible. That means…
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EARLIER in 2022, FNY discussed Cloverdale Boulevard, one of the “lesser” boulevards found in Queens, a borough in which quite a few main routes are known as “Boulevard.” In the…
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Quite a bit of Queens real estate bears the name Hollis — the neighborhoods Hollis, Holliswood, Hollis Park Gardens and Hollis Hills, the LIRR Hollis station, Hollis Avenue, Hollis Hills Terrace…
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I seem to return to the lost neighborhood of Laurel Hill, Queens, time and again. I think whoever lives and works there call it West Maspeth these days. It’s a…
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In 2006, I wrote: A road runs from the East River to the tip of the North Fork of Long Island, running through Long Island City, Woodside, Jackson Heights, Flushing, Auburndale,…
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JUNCTION Boulevard splits the heart of western Queens, dividing neighborhoods as it goes. It forms the undefended barrier between Jackson Heights and East Elmhurst north of Roosevelt Avenue at the…