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By SERGEY KADINSKYForgotten New York correspondent FROM the Verrazano Bridge area heading south, Father Capodanno Boulevard is a pedal-to-the-metal shorefront road that was intended to serve as a highway. Among…
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NEW R-211 subway cars have arrived on the 8th Avenue line, currently serving the A express line. Since I moved to Queens and take the Long Island Rail Road to…
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THE first Pennsylvania Station, which allowed passenger trains to arrive in NYC from across the Hudson and East Rivers, opened to the public in 1910. Prior to that, passengers needed…
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A relatively rare midday post, or posts, today as I injured my back during the usual morning routine and decided to take a day off from working at home for…
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BEACH 90th Street is a station on the A train in the Rockaways, the first on the line after it crosses Jamaica Bay en route to Rockaway Park at Beach…
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By SERGEY KADINSKYForgotten NY correspondent EARLIER this month I stopped by the Jewish Community House in Bensonhurst to assist Ukrainian refugees who had landed in New York fleeing the war…
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PERIODICALLY I visit Astoria Village to see how it is getting along. I first saw the neighborhood in 1998 at the dawn of the Forgotten New York Era, when there…
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I fancy myself something of a connoisseur of carousels. Whenever I know one is around wherever I happen to be, I seek it out. I admire the calliope music (fie…
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LATELY I have been revisiting my Names of the Neighborhoods series over at SpliceToday but I hadn’t tackled Staten Island and Manhattan yet. Staten Island has a number of curious…
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It’s that time of the month again…when I want a weekend off, that is. I’m handing it off to Sergey again for a visit to Elmhurst, or rather, its predecessor……
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A new addition to the streetside infrastructure the last couple of years has been charging stations for electric-powered vehicles. If you watched the Super Bowl this year, you saw electric…
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My instincts are usually good. On a recent march down East 12th Street I snapped a photo of Father Mancini Corner at Avenue A. It turns out that this sign…