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 —…
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Word has recently come that the Department of Transportation intends to raze the pedestrian bridge that crosses the Long Island Rail Road at 216th Street, which has been a handy…
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In the 1950s what was then called the Department of Traffic developed special posts used on pedestrian walkways over parkways and expressways. Several clutches of them survive in town: I…
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ForgottenFans gather in view of Little Neck Bay for ForgottenTour #98, September 13, 2015 to take a look at some of the northeast Queens neighborhood’s relatively unknown aspects. The…
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Telephone exchanges in the USA used to feature two initial letters, and if you have an old-fashioned dial or pushbutton telephone, you can still use them if you know what…
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By SERGEY KADINSKY Forgotten NY correspondent New York City has more colleges than any other city in the county. The campuses vary from the open campuses of New York University…
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I was clattering around in Bayside in 2007 when I spotted this one-way sign outside a thrift shop. I didn’t buy it, but I shot it. I’m not sure when…
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As of early 2014 I’m looking around for work and have been “freelancing” for three years. Most of my career has consisted of working with print, editing, writing, proofreading, and…
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The Clearview Expressway runs from the Throgs Neck Bridge south, terminating at Hillside Avenue (unusual for an expressway to terminate at a local-access thoroughfare). It was first proposed in 1955…
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On a cloudy afternoon in March I took a bus to my old neighborhood at Sanford Avenue and 158th Street and walked through the area unofficially known as Boadway-Flushing as…
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With more free time during the week (after a 3/23/11 layoff) but still pretty much shackled to Queens because of usurious transit fares (I do not drive, but the usurious gas…