THERE has been a drugstore on the SW corner of Queens Boulevard and 55th Avenue in Elmhurst since 1921, which was when Queens Boulevard (formerly Hoffman Boulevard in this stretch)…
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FROM the new Facebook page Old NYC Photo Dump comes this image of the Samuel Renne house, also known as the Big House and the Bretonniere house, which had been…
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WHERE Elmhurst meets Jackson Heights, between 82nd and 94th Streets south of Roosevelt Avenue, is a curious little grid of streets all of which carry names in alphabetical order from…
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I have been thinking about the Interborough Express, a proposed mass transit line connecting Bay Ridge and Jackson Heights running mainly along the rights of way of the NY &…
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JUNCTION Boulevard splits the heart of western Queens, dividing neighborhoods as it goes. It forms the undefended barrier between Jackson Heights and East Elmhurst north of Roosevelt Avenue at the…
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JUNCTION Boulevard’s name is somewhat mysterious. Literally, from Latin, “junction” means “joining” or where things come together. But what originally came together here in western Queens? My guess is either…
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Why would there be a Toledo Court at 92-30 56th Avenue in Elmhurst, adjacent to Elmhurst Park and close by Queens Center Mall? The answer, it would seem, is that…
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TIME for another peek into the past through Al Ponte’s Time Machine on Facebook. This view is of the southeast corner of Queens Boulevard and 55th Avenue, across from today’s…
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I have been looking back on ForgottenTours of the past, reminiscing somewhat because for a variety of reasons, including the Pandemic, I have not been able to do a live…
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MOUNT Everest is the tallest mountain in the world at just over 29000 feet (about 8849 meters) and sits on the border of China and Nepal, the mountain George Mallory…
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IT’S a rainy day and I was going through the Forgotten NY photo archive when I ran across this photo by the Somach photo studio of the Elmhurst RR grade…
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It’s that time of the month again…when I want a weekend off, that is. I’m handing it off to Sergey again for a visit to Elmhurst, or rather, its predecessor……