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    COLLEGE POINT, Queens, Part 2

    by Kevin Walsh May 5, 2006
    by Kevin Walsh May 5, 2006 0 comment

    1-2-3 skiddoo 123rd Street, for some reason, is the scene for many venerable College Point architectural survivors… Its neighbor at 13-11 123rd is rather less recognizable. It was built by Jacob Salathe,…

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    COLLEGE POINT, Queens

    by Kevin Walsh May 5, 2006
    by Kevin Walsh May 5, 2006 3 comments

    College Point, excluding Broad Channel (which is on its own eponymous island) and the towns along the Rockaway Peninsula, is the most isolated neighborhood in Queens. It is separated from…

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    COLLEGE POINT, Queens, Part 2

    by Kevin Walsh May 5, 2006
    by Kevin Walsh May 5, 2006 71 comments

    CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 The Vogt family still occupies the house at 13-17 123rd that forebears built in the 1850s. College Point by Victor Lederer   Its neighbor at 13-11 123rd is rather less…

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    LIKE A ROLLING WHITESTONE

    by Kevin Walsh October 14, 2001
    by Kevin Walsh October 14, 2001 0 comment

      Imagine boarding the Long Island Railroad at Penn Station or Woodside and traveling east on the Port Washington Branch. After leaving the Shea Stadium platform, the train does notgo east past Main…

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    RETURN TO THE WEEDY GREEN YONDER: FLUSHING AIRPORT Part 2

    by Kevin Walsh February 4, 2001
    by Kevin Walsh February 4, 2001 9 comments

    Back in June 1999, I entered the grounds of the old Flushing Airport, and got as far as the mud, the ticks, the mosquitoes, and the head-high weeds and reeds…

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    QUEENS ALLEYS part 2

    by Kevin Walsh April 2, 2000
    by Kevin Walsh April 2, 2000 0 comment

    Continued from Part 1 This time, our survey of little-noticed Queens alleyways takes us from gritty, concrete-enveloped Long Island City all the way east to bucolic, rural Little Neck–which could…

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    ALLEYS OF QUEENS. Part 1

    by Kevin Walsh December 27, 1999
    by Kevin Walsh December 27, 1999 0 comment

    Queens, in many ways, is the youngest of the five boroughs. It became a part of the city when its widely separated towns joined with the Bronx, Brooklyn, Staten Island…

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    FLESSEL’S OF COLLEGE POINT

    by Kevin Walsh July 22, 1999
    by Kevin Walsh July 22, 1999 26 comments

    14th Road and 119th Street was the location of an undeclared landmark in College Point, Queens for 127 years ­ before most of Queens was even settled. Flessel’s was there…

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    FLUSHING AIRPORT Part 1

    by Kevin Walsh July 7, 1999
    by Kevin Walsh July 7, 1999 8 comments

    Flushing Airport, the former Queens private aircraft facility, hasn’t seen a landing or takeoff in many years. It’s not even in Flushing. Along with the Whitestone Expressway, it’s the chief…

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