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…
Flushing Meadows
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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…
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YET another remnant of the 1964-1965 World’s Fair in Flushing Meadows-Corona Park that is seemingly hidden in plain sight can be found on a park path north of Terrace on…
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A bit short on time today, so I thought I would do a short item on the unique Flushing Meadows-Corona Park signage, which uses different fonts than other fonts used…
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I couldn’t get to everything on last week’s World’s Fair Remnants tour, so here’s one item we overlooked. Located on a rather out-of-the-way path between the Hall of Science and…
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By SERGEY KADINSKY Forgotten NY correspondent In the southeastern corner of the central core of Flushing Meadows-Corona Park is a set of mounds with footstones citing biblical verses under the…
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It might be surprising to know that most of the world’s countries did not have exhibits at the ’64-65 World’s Fair in Flushing Meadows. Not because of any particular animus or…
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I really wish the old man had gotten a photo of the World’s Fair 1964-1965 monorail with some actual cars in the picture, but I’m working with what I have…
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Engine #260 idles at the Shea Stadium platform on a 1999 fantrip. The EMD GP38-2 is a four-axle diesel-electric locomotive of the road switcher type built by General Motors, Electro-Motive…
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An ALCO “power car” #614 idles at the Shea Stadium Long Island Rail Road platform in September 1999, a place it rarely visited, as the Port Washington Branch on which the station…
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I recently came across some snaps taken during the Dawn of Forgotten New York in 1999 — in particular, from a fan trip from September 1999 employing LIRR MP-72 cars, which…