Corona

As I was staggering down Roosevelt Avenue in Corona the other day, crazy from the heat, I noticed a new variety of lamppost that has appeared, a davit-style, cylindrical post.…

As you can see in the title card, there’s a twin, or double-masted, hexagonal pole on 37th Avenue west of 114th Street, illuminating the sidewalk at Hinton Park, which extends…

The IRT Flushing Line opened in stages between 1915 and 1928. The stations between Grand Central and Vernon-Jackson opened in 1915. Meanwhile, in Queens, the Hunters Point and Court House Square…

This pair of signs pointing to two bridges can be found mounted on a telephone pole at northbound Junction Boulevard and 46th Avenue. In the mid-20th Century, these signs were…

I always try to feature Volkswagen Buses when I encounter them. Joe DeMarco found this wonderfully restored specimen on Roosevelt Avenue in Corona. VW buses, under their original design, came…

47th Avenue and 109th Street, 3 PM 4/12/14

I was stopped on the railroad on Tuesday right in front of what may be the most iconic, emblematic Fedders building I’ve seen in Queens, on 44th Avenue in Corona…

During the week leading up to the first MLB All-Star Game played in Flushing since 1964, when Shea Stadium was new, the boardwalk taking pedestrians over the Corona Yards and…

At 52nd Avenue and 108th, at the Lemon Ice King in Corona, 2005. Needless to say, not there anymore. 7/7/13

ForgottenTour #68 continued a recent run of pleasant weather (21 of the past 22 tours have been in at least partial sunshine). Meeting at Corona Plaza, 103rd Street and Roosevelt…

In 1893, Louis Comfort Tiffany and his business partner, Arthur Nash, founded the Stourbridge Glass Company in Corona next to the railroad tracks. In 1902, the name of the enterprise was changed…

In the colonial era, mile markers were often placed along the main road to inform the traveler of how many miles there were to go to the nearest big town,…