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  • One ShotsSubways & Trains

    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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  • 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 12 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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  • One Shots

    QUEENS PLAZA MILLSTONES

    by Kevin Walsh June 6, 2022
    by Kevin Walsh June 6, 2022 6 comments

    DUTCH Kills Green, opened in the early 2010s in front of the clock-towered Bank of Manhattan, where Northern Boulevard begins its march to the eastern end of Long Island, contains…

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  • One ShotsRoads

    LAUREL HILL BOULEVARD, Woodside

    by Kevin Walsh April 21, 2022
    by Kevin Walsh April 21, 2022 4 comments

    THERE’S a two-block stretch of Laurel Hill Boulevard between 65th Place and 67th Street independent of the BQE, and the block between 66th and 67th Streets actually has residences and…

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