I have chronicled the various Statue of Liberty knockoffs around town since the very beginnings of Forgotten New York over 20 years ago, most notably the 37-foot high replica that…
Corona
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In Corona, there’s a street that runs between two railroads that’s named for a racetrack. National Street, running diagonally in the Corona street grid, is the community’s main shopping strip,…
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After a walk from Flushing straight through Flushing Meadows-Corona Park and into Corona, which I’ll discuss on a separate FNY page, it was time to get the #7 back to…
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There are but two streets in New York City that begin with X. Both are fairly nondescript, but I’m glad they’re there, since X has always gotten short shrift in…
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By SERGEY KADINSKYForgotten NY correspondent With the Coronavirus compelling New Yorkers into a springtime quarantine, my hometown borough has two small parks with “Health” in their names. Their locations take…
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During this period of fear if not panic over the coronavirus that is sickening parts of the world (in March 2020) many non-New Yorkers would be surprised to know that…
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From May to December 2019 I had a high-paying (by my standards) but perplexing job at a Very Small Design Firm a couple of blocks from Columbus Circle. I was…
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As I was aimlessly meandering around Corona, crazed from the 80+ Corona heat, I spotted something interesting on the corner of 104th Street and 39th Avenue: specifically, 38-14 104th Street.…
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While stumbling around Corona today, I was looking for odd bits of infrastructure that pointed the way to the past. They’re not hard to find because Corona is a rather…
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I’ve written about this fascinating mosaic sign at the Hunters Point Avenue #7 train station before, but it bears repeating. In the good old days, there was more than one…
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By SERGEY KADINSKY Forgotten NY correspondent At the spot where Flushing Creek widens into Flushing Bay, there is a Department of Transportation storage yard and asphalt plant with a unique…
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104-11 39th Avenue in Corona is one of a pair of Italianate-style houses just east of the Queens Library Corona branch building located on 39th Avenue a block north of the…