Douglaston was first settled in the colonial era but was built up with numerous Tudor homes in the very early 20th Century.
Douglaston
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There’s been a Van Zandt Avenue in Douglaston, my old maps tell me, since 1910 or so, perhaps before that. The street is named for an early area settler, Wynant Van…
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Both the MTA and the weathermen blew it on Saturday, April 5th, 2008–the MTA because it usually does, cancelling LIRR trains for trackwork from Shea Stadium to Woodside, and the weathermen,…
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Douglaston Parkway is one of the older roads in its namesake neighborhood in eastern Queens, as you may expect. It was originally known as Alley Road, so named since it ran…
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ForgottenTours have been, for the past year and a half, typically held under threatening skies, but the weather for the scheduled Tour 31 on July 29, 2007 not only threatened, but…
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CONTINUED FROM PART 1 Auburndale This is possibly the final photograph taken of the “old” Auburndale station. Formerly an at-grade station, the line was placed on an embankment and elevated…