A Victorian-era residence, the kind that have long been displaced in Flushing by boring, monolithic apartments and blond brick two-family homes (you know the type…concrete driveways and prominent water meters)…
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In Queens, Springfield Boulevard and Springfield Gardens are a bit misunderstood. The belief persists that the Springfields in these names originated from when Creedmoor State Hospital was a rifle range,…
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The intersection of 7th Avenue South and Christopher Street has existed only since the 1910s, when 7th Avenue was hammered south to connect 7th and Greenwich Avenues with Varick and…
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Concrete Plant Park, built along the Bronx River between 2004 and 2009 for about 10 million dollars (much of which was spent in removing petroleum-tainted soil from the site), runs…
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I’ve decided to take this Sunday “off,” so FNY’s Sergey Kadinsky is filling in with an item about a part of Queens west of Astoria Village where I’m rarely found,…
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By SERGEY KADINSKYForgotten New York correspondent New York has often been derided as a playground for the rich, with their empty glass towers and breathtaking views of the city that…
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By SERGEY KADINSKYForgotten New York correspondent In 2014, the man who later ran to be our 46th president described the conditions of LaGuardia Airport as “third-world.” The insult inspired action…
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Great Jones Street takes the place of 3rd Street for two blocks, between Broadway and the Bowery. A bit of research with older maps reveals that it was never part…
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By SERGEY KADINSKYForgotten NY correspondent The last frontier of Brooklyn is on the shore of Jamaica Bay, where knob-shaped necks of land separated by inlets did not experience development until…
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Freestanding, walk-in phone booths used to be ubiquitous all over town, but even before cell phones began taking over in the 1990s, street telephones had been replaced for the most…
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The buses were free in the summer of 2020, in this Year of Covid. I took somewhat advantage, traveling on the Q36 on Little Neck Parkway and Jamaica Avenue to…
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By SERGEY KADINSKY Forgotten New York correspondent When city leaders name a park after an individual, we presume that the intent is to eternally honor the namesake with a place on…