WAY back in 1999, or it could have been 1998, I obtained this shot from the pedestrian boardwalk above what is now called the Mets-Willets Point station on the Port…
Flushing Meadows
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INDULGE me for a day while I break my own rule and talk about one of the most photographed objects in Queens, including by me. When Donald Fagen of Steely…
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SURVIVING into the 1990s, but not quite the 2000s, was a relic not of the ’64-’65 Fair but its 1939-1940 predecessor. The Billy Rose Aquacade, or more properly, the NY…
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THE 1939-40 World’s Fair may have been more storied and better-remembered (now by few alive today), but the 1964-65 Fair had its whiz-bang moments as well…and I was there, eating…
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DEEP in Flushing Meadows-Corona Park, along a path between Dinkins Circle and the Unisphere, is NYC Parks’ equivalent of the Island of Misfit Toys from TV’s “Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer.”…
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A recent jaunt took me into Flushing Meadows-Corona Park, where I noticed that the set of pavement mosaics installed honoring the first and second Fairs were in worse shape than…
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In September 2024 I had to take shorter walks because a chronic sore back condition arose, and my journeys totaled 4 miles or less. Thus things were near “perfect” for…
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No, the Unisphere in Flushing Meadows-Corona Park is hardly “forgotten,” but at heart Forgotten NY is an infrastructure website and I thought I’d mention it on the 60th anniversary of…
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CONTINUED FROM PART ONE HEY, I just had to get out of the house, and Saturday, January 27, 2024 was the only day to do it. I work from home…
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At David Dinkins Circle, just down the entrance ramp to Flushing Meadows-Corona Park south of the LIRR station, throughout most of 2022 you’ll see a bronze bust of R&B and…
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In the shadow of the imposing Philip Johnson New York State Pavilion Towers sits a quiet verdant oasis called David’s Garden, a tribute to longtime Queens Tribune editor David Oats, who…
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As I have lamented in Forgotten New York before, New York City is much better at eliminating transit lines than building them; during my lifetime, elevateds such as Third Avenue…