Flushing

THE Ganesh Temple of the Hindu Temple Society of North America on Bowne Street just north of Holly was opened on July 4, 1977. As the first Hindu Temple in…

TODAY I want to talk about a road running from southern Flushing east to Fresh Meadows, that bears the name of a hospital that doesn’t exist anymore … and was…

I may do a new series in Forgotten New York pointing out the humble beginnings of major, well-known NYC streets. Today, I’m showing you the east end of the combined…

An aspect of subways and railroads in New York City that has never gotten deserved scrutiny is the wide variety of platform lighting found around town both in the subways…

UNTIL mid-century, mid-Queens was still rather sparsely settled and was a place of wide open spaces. This photo from 1947 shows Kissena Boulevard looking south from Rose Avenue at the…

I found it a bit ironic that this shot of a portion of Rachel Carson Playground at Colden Street and Geranium Avenue at Kissena Corridor Park features so much pavement…

I am stumped more often than I’d like to be. There was a real estate development on the east side of Auburndale Lane opposite Flushing Cemetery south of 46th Avenue…

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,…

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,…

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)…

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.…

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,…