It was a pleasant day in May and I had completed the Astoria Village leg of my planned excursion that included AV, the west end of Astoria Park, and then…
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I’ve said repeatedly to watch carefully when walking under elevated trains. Not for falling debris (not that that can’t happen) but for outmoded or unusual signage or lamp fixtures, because…
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SOMEDAY a definitive book, or even a webpage, will be written about the hundreds of war memorials that are scattered all over the five boroughs, ranging from tiny to massive.…
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I should take more advantage of the cache of Queens photos I acquired during my research for the book I wrote with the Greater Astoria Historical Society, Forgotten Queens. Many…
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Back in 2016 I was enthusiastically noting Bartunek Hardware’s ancient sign at its #28-07 23 Avenue location, nearby the Ditmars Boulevard N train station. The store has been in business…
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What follows is an expansion of a piece that recently appeared in SpliceToday. I added more information and photos taken during a recent walk in Astoria’s northern end. After fur…
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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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Sound Street runs for only a block in Astoria, between 23rd Avenue and Astoria Boulevard, one-way south, yet it does bring traffic to a bridge crossing the Grand Central Parkway.…
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Why write about a bar on Broadway in Astoria that closed a couple of years ago? It turns out there’s probably some Long Island City history in the name. It’s…
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Remember when there could be large gatherings of facemask-free people for purely recreational purposes with no guilt trips? I know, the memory is fading. I remember them, though. I regretted…
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I have been thinking lately of all the places I have been to once, and only once, since I began work on Forgotten New York in 1998. I will try…
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There are plenty of Dutch place names around town … Spuyten Duyvil, Knickerbocker, Onderdonk, and just about every name with a “Van” in front of it from Van Buren to…