Astoria

Back in Astoria again — or rather, its northwestern end, which is also called Ditmars, named for the boulevard that bisects it and takes the place of 22nd Avenue (coincidentally,…

Well-worn territory for sure, but from November to February I did a fair bit of walking around in Astoria, especially in its northern stretch. This week, I wanted to do…

There’s been a lot of news about the subways and transportation in New York City lately, most of it about the deteriorating infrastructure in the more-than-century-old system. Extensive re-routings, rush-hour…

As I have related in FNY over the past year (2018), four elevated stations of the Astoria Line were closed for several months and then reopened with a radical new…

Fire alarms have been a feature on NYC streets since the late 1800s, and methods of marking them, first to passing horse-drawn coaches and pedestrians up to moving vehicles has…

Here’s 32-14 Steinway Street in Astoria between Broadway and 34th Avenue, a street I have passed often in the last decade since the (soon former) headquarters of my associate entity,…

The Steinway Street Clock, in front of 30-78 Steinway between 30th and 31st Avenues, is one of a number of large, stolid street clocks designed by George Post. Except for…

One day after giving a Forgotten NY tour in Sunnyside and Astoria in which I pointed out the former Packard showroom/dealership on Northern Boulevard and 46th Street, some stuff fell…

In Forgotten NY’s early days, in 1999 and 2000, I posted a number of pages about subway archaisms and leftover signage and structures (go to Explore FNY on the left,…

I was fascinated with this view I got through a slight opening in a plywood fence on 32nd Street north of 38th Avenue in Astoria. I have no idea how…

Astoria’s architecture is anything but boring. You never know what you will run into on its side streets, from townhouses, ons-story single family homes, huge apartment buildings, Art Deco churches.…

I was reminded of Astoria’s past when making my way up 32nd Street during the week. A pair of apartment buildings at 31-15 and 31-19, between 3rd Avenue and Broadway,…