ONE of the oldest buildings in the Queensboro Bridge area is the Abigail Adams Museum, alternately the Mount Vernon Hotel. The stone building with the two-level white porch on East…
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WHEN you are a photographer in New York City taking photos of infrastructure, it sometimes isn’t easy. I was setting up a shot on 1st Avenue over the weekend, concentrating…
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Continued from Part 1 FOR this FNY Crosstown post I selected 4th Street, which is the only numbered east-west street (that always had a number) to almost go river to river south…
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AUSTELL PLACE is one of a cluster of short streets in Long Island City south of Sunnyside Yards and west of the Dutch Kills turning basin. I have always had…
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Today Sergey yet again has found something I was completely unaware of… –ed. By SERGEY KADINSKYForgotten New York correspondent ACROSS the city there are numerous barriers to pedestrian connectivity that…
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WHY am I using the Streetlamps stamp here at Tudor City’s Windsor Tower at 1st Avenue and East 40th Street, the largest building in the luxury apartment campus found between…
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I don’t think I’ve mentioned the magnificent stone bridge that takes the NY Connecting Railroad over Queens Boulevard in Woodside. The NYCR, constructed in 1917 when the Hell Gate Bridge…
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FOR this FNY Crosstown post I selected 4th Street, which is the only numbered east-west street (that always had a number) to almost go river to river south of 13th…
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THE ghost of the Diplomat Bowl still holds forth on Snyder Avenue east of Flatbush Avenue in Flatbush, across from the former Flatbush Town Hall (before it was annexed by…
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HERE’S a building at 39-30 Review Avenue that looks abandoned but is apparently very much alive, originally home to the American Wax Company. “Wax” can mean a lot of things,…
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THE Thomson Avenue Bridge was created in the late 19-oughts, along with the remainder of the Sunnyside Yards railroad complex. The entire complex is a vast open space, covered only…
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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…