Corona

In the 1940s or 1950s, the Department of Traffic (now Transportation) installed hundreds of “arrowhead” signs all over town, pointing to bridges and tunnels. They took the shape of arrowheads,…

Continued from Part 3 Other than the BMT 4th Avenue Broadway Line (N, R, Q and now W trains) perhaps the majority of my subway rides for six decades have been…

I recently became aware of a former firehouse in Corona, a handsome yellow brick building on the north side of 32nd Avenue between 102nd and 103rd Streets. I haven’t had…

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