These handsome lamps were standard issue in the 1950s for very specific purposes: they lit pedestrian walkways on expressways built during that decade. Poles very much like it can be…
Bayside
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There are quite a few ancient signs displaying former letter telephone exchanges around town used with dial rotary phones, which displayed letters as well as numbers; the first two characters…
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Now and then, a bit of original New York topography peeks through the concrete, bricks and glass. Oakland Lane, at 46th Avenue and Cloverdale Boulevard in Bayside, is a piece…
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I was rambling around recently in Mount St. Mary Cemetery, the largest Catholic cemetery in Queens other than Holy Calvary in the western end of the borough. I had never…
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Traffic rushing past on Northern Boulevard on the small triangle formed by 207th Street and the Clearview Expressway service road find it easy to miss the Bayside War I memorial, a…
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Parking lots around town sometimes feature ancient streetlamps that were never part of the streetlighting mix employed by the Department of Traffic, later Department of Transportation in NYC, such as…
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Just a quickie on this Thanksgiving Day. Here’s an unusual partnership in Bayside — there are usually separate poles for street signs and stop signs, even though stop signs are…
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Continued from Part 1 Today my idea was to walk from Jamaica Estates, one of two ritzy (or mostly ritzy, in comparison to where I’ve lived) areas in northern Jamaica,…
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In 2014, I wrote about the unusual pedestrian ramp arrangement at the Clearview Expressway and 39th Avenue in Bayside. In this situation, the Long Island Rail Road is bridged across…
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220th Place is a short dead-end on 46th Avenue by Oakland Lake west of Cloverdale Boulevard and south of the Wendy’s and Burger King in on Northern Boulevard where I…
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In 1999 I was taking a bike ride in Bayside, on the Cross Island Parkway service road a little west of the Clearview Expressway when I spotted three of four “Woodie”…
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221st Street is a fairly busy route in Bayside. Since it’s bridged over the Long Island Rail Road — one of the few crossings over the railroad in Bayside —…