I’ve discussed these fire alarm indicator lamps before — Forgotten NY has been around now for 22 years as of 2021 — but I never get tired of featuring them,…
Flushing
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2020 marked the first year I hadn’t attended any Mets games at Citifield or Shea Stadium in many years, to my knowledge, but there were just 30 games all year,…
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A Victorian-era residence, the kind that have long been displaced in Flushing by boring, monolithic apartments and blond brick two-family homes (you know the type…concrete driveways and prominent water meters)…
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On a whim, I decided to walk the entire lengths of two Flushing roads for which I have always had some fascination, Station and Depot Roads in Flushing and Auburndale.…
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With your indulgence, I’m going to break format to talk about Tom Seaver, one of my childhood icons (when I was a kid, I was lucky to have three: Seaver,…
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Bowne House, on Bowne Street north of 38th Avenue in Flushing, Queens, was built in 1661 by English settler John Bowne and, unlike many other colonial houses from the 17th…
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As Forgotten New York readers know I’m fascinated by street layouts. In Queens, the borough in which I live, there are hundreds of numbered streets both east-west and north-south that…
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Why is there a wrought-iron rendering of a locomotive on the Kissena Park fence at KIssena Boulevard and Rose Avenue? There’s a reason it’s there. A lengthy gash of green…
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A week ago in 2020, I did a Brooklyn A to Z page about southern Brooklyn avenues named for letters of the alphabet, Avenue A to Z. There are a…
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Graffiti-scrawled subway cars reached their peak in 1982, a year in which the MTA’s subway operations reached their nadir, with older cars from previous decades broke down regularly and track…
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Here’s an interesting tableau from 1962 on the south side of Roosevelt Avenue just east of Main Street in Flushing. It was, then as now, the terminal of the IRT…
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The pace of change in Flushing, Queens has only accelerated in the past 30 years, as its venerable Victorian age buildings have mostly been razed. But concentrated at Kissena Boulevard…