Reprinting an item from Forgotten New York The Book, which turns 20 years old this September; if you haven’t got it yet, there’s a link elsewhere on this page. Much…
Flushing
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By PATRICK O’CONNORFNY Contributor It always amazes me how many times I find things while fishing around for something else. I was recently poking around on the 1924 aerial photos…
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I have not really been able to do a lengthy walk with the camera since around Thanksgiving 2025, for a variety of reasons that include increasing sensitivity to wind and…
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BAYSIDE Avenue in Queens is nowhere near Bayside, the neighborhood. Instead it runs between Union Street and the intersection of 154th Street and 29th Avenue in Flushing. In what is…
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WHEN I was a resident in eastern Flushing from 1993-2007, Northern Boulevard and 155th Street at the east end of Roosevelt Avenue was something of a fast food mecca, as…
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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…
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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…