THROUGH much of the eighteenth, nineteenth and twentieth centuries, Penny Bridge was a toll bridge on the Bushwick & Newtown Turnpike (end of Meeker Ave). In the seventeenth century, it…
Blissville
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TIME grows short before bedtime, so I’ll repeat an item from my twilight Calvary Cemetery-Blissville walk in November 2022. Mitch Waxman of the Newtown Pentacle reports that the Catholic diocese…
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St. Raphael’s Church, named for an archangel, dominates views from Hunters Point, Blissville, Calvary Cemetery, and Sunnyside. It was built in 1885 here at Greenpoint and Hunters Point Avenues and replaced…
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AL SMITH (1873-1944), is interred in Calvary Cemetery in Blissville, Queens. He was Governor of New York State for four two-year terms (elected in 1918, 1922, 1924 and 1926) and the…
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SUNSHINE is my undecaffeinated coffee, my 5 Hour Energy, my Red Bull. I get more done on days with full sunshine than I do on overcast days; nonetheless, I have…
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By the time I snapped this formidable smokestack once belonging to the Peter Van Iderstine glue factory along Newtown Creek in the spring of 2017, operations had long ago moved…
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On a recent Saturday I traveled around Blissville in western Queens with my friend Mitch Waxman, who I call the King of Newtown Creek. He is a historian and preservationist…
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Here’s a small bus route sign at Greenpoint and Gale Avenues in Blissville, at the entrance to Calvary Cemetery. Today, bus route maps are somewhat larger and are mounted on…
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I was actually stumped about something to write about this week — I have plenty of unused photos, but not the inclination to write about any of their locales (they…
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The fifth bridge to cross the noxious and noisome Newtown Creek between the unglamorous neighborhoods of Greenpoint and Blissville opens to traffic as the rickety bucket of bolts known as…
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In 1939 Robert Moses arched the imposing Kosciuszko Bridge, named for a Polish compatriot of the American Revolution, over the noxious and noisome Newtown Creek. Although The Special K originally boasted…
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Greenpoint Avenue has about as much mileage in Queens as it does in Brooklyn. We’re on the border of Blissville, a small wedge of Queens positioned between Newtown Creek, Calvary…