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    QUEENS BOULEVARD VIADUCT, Sunnyside

    by Kevin Walsh March 4, 2021
    by Kevin Walsh March 4, 2021 6 comments

    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…

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  • Forgotten Slices

    THE HOUSE AT THE END OF QUEENS BOULEVARD

    by Kevin Walsh February 11, 2014
    by Kevin Walsh February 11, 2014 9 comments

    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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  • One Shots

    SENDEK HOUSE, Queens Boulevard

    by Kevin Walsh September 30, 2013
    by Kevin Walsh September 30, 2013 23 comments

    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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  • One ShotsSubways & Trains

    QUEENS BOULEVARD VIADUCT, Sunnyside

    by Kevin Walsh June 17, 2013
    by Kevin Walsh June 17, 2013 9 comments

    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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  • NeighborhoodsStreet Scenes

    QUEENS BOULEVARD along the Flushing El

    by Kevin Walsh September 6, 2009
    by Kevin Walsh September 6, 2009 1 comment

    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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  • Street ScenesWalks

    BOULEVARD OF DEATH. Queens Boulevard Part 2

    by Kevin Walsh September 3, 2005
    by Kevin Walsh September 3, 2005 2 comments

    CONTINUED FROM PART 1 WHEN IT 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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  • Street ScenesWalks

    BOULEVARD OF DEATH. Queens Boulevard Part 1

    by Kevin Walsh August 28, 2005
    by Kevin Walsh August 28, 2005 3 comments

    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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  • Forgotten Slices

    QUEENS’ LITTLEST BOULEVARDS

    by Kevin Walsh August 31, 2022
    by Kevin Walsh August 31, 2022 12 comments

    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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  • One ShotsRoads

    HOLLIS COURT BOULEVARD, Queens

    by Kevin Walsh November 4, 2020
    by Kevin Walsh November 4, 2020 6 comments

    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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  • Roads

    LAUREL HILL BOULEVARD, Queens

    by Kevin Walsh August 9, 2020
    by Kevin Walsh August 9, 2020 15 comments

    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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  • Forgotten Slices

    NORTHERN BOULEVARD, Queens and Nassau

    by Kevin Walsh June 11, 2014
    by Kevin Walsh June 11, 2014 15 comments

    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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  • Forgotten Slices

    VICTORY BOULEVARD ARCHITECTURE

    by Kevin Walsh September 12, 2024
    by Kevin Walsh September 12, 2024 4 comments

    BACK in 2019, I walked Victory Boulevard from Clove Road to the Staten Island Expressway as part of a walk that clocked in at over 9 miles. It was intended…

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