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…
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EVERY so often, I like to note place names that are unique to New York City and it’s likely I won’t find another Watchogue Road with a search on Google…
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I have written about Kings Highway a number of times in FNY and have walked much of its length over the quarter century I have posted on Forgotten NY. I…
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UNION Turnpike, seen here just east of Utopia Parkway and the St. John’s University campus, begins its lengthy run to New Hyde Park, Nassau County, from Myrtle Avenue and 86th…
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My posts will be intermittent for awhile as I recover from surgery, but I am feeling better. My father was just as much a photo buff as I turned out…
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CREEDMOOR Psychiatric Center is located on the old grounds of the Creedmoor rifle range, deeded to New York State for that use by the National Guard in 1872. International matches…
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NEW York City has weeded out most of its more colorful names over the decades, such as the Bronx’ Bear Swamp Road, Staten Island’s Skunks Misery and Gun Factory Roads…
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GRAVESEND Neck Road was once a major east-west artery in Gravesend and Sheepshead Bay in the days of carts and wagons. “Neck Road” as it’s called by locals and the MTA…
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SINCE I haven’t been able to get out much, I have decided to continue my recently minted series Where It All Begins, that employs the magic of Google Street View…
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BEGINNING a series here that I will return to from time to time about where NYC’s longest roads originate. My aim here is to show the “sources” of roads and…
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TODAY I want to talk about a road running from southern Flushing east to Fresh Meadows, that bears the name of a hospital that doesn’t exist anymore … and was…
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“There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy” — Hamlet In nearly a quarter century of wandering around New York City photographing…