I have not done enough pieces about Queens, my adopted borough, lately. Some pages are in the offing. In September I walked in eastern Flushing and Auburndale, getting some photos…
Flushing
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WALK through downtown Flushing and you may feel that you’re in a westernized Chinese-speaking society. This isn’t Hong Kong or Taiwan, but when did the first Chinese-Americans settle in this…
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BEING a type guy, I noticed this sign for New York Spa and Sauna as I was scuttling north on 149th Street at Northern Boulevard recently. I noticed it was…
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NEW York City’s fire alarms evolved greatly over the nearly 125 years they have been street corner staples. They seem to be the one Beaux Arts designed street fixtures that…
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FORGIVE the relatively poor angle on this shot of Whitestone Lanes, at Whitestone Expressway and Linden Place, technically in Flushing. (It actually looks better by night than by day.) I…
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SOME years ago, Kevin Walsh visited Haight Street in Flushing, comparing the sights of this obscure two-block road in an industrial corner of the neighborhood, with the scenic Haight Street…
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WHEN I lived in eastern Flushing from 1993-2007, I didn’t recognize this structure on the Flushing-Auburndale border at Northern Boulevard and 165th Street for the artifact it was. At the…
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I have been paying more attention to the shingle signs that are found outside doctors’ offices, because some of them are old indeed and have been in place for a…
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TIRED of the unrelenting dead canine humidity of NYC summer? It’s humid and getting humider, year after year. Here’s a winter 2021 view of Station Road along the Long Island…
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HERE’S a 1930s look at Feitsen’s Drug Store in the 1930s, on 45th Avenue and 147th Street. Out of the picture across the street are Parsons Boulevard and Flushing Hospital…
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IT was time to “call an audible” as they say in football, when the quarterback decides to change the play at scrimmage when the defense is lined up to defend…
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REX Cole (1887-1967) was originally a lamp manufacturer, then became associated with General Electric in the 1920s and designed white enamel Monitor Top refrigerators. Famed architect Raymond Hood designed a series…