The following first appeared in Huffington Post on 11/21/2009. The “Huff Post” does not pay contributors, so I didn’t stick around very long. I lived on the outskirts of the…
Flushing
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Just a quick one this Christmas week. On December 10, 2017, ForgottenFan Mary Beth and I went on the Flushing Holiday House tour, which had been going on for thirty…
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Amazingly, though Flushing can claim two buildings from the 17th century (Manhattan has none), 18th Century buildings are few and far between! The Kingsland Homestead has been located in three…
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Pictured here, at 43rd Avenue and 159th Street, my former address in eastern Flushing, are new and old methods of indicating a fire alarm is nearby. On the bottom is…
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I’m fascinated with a Dripps atlas of Queens made in 1852 I stumbled on awhile ago, as I am with most old maps. At that remote time Millard Fillmore was…
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The latest Google Street View reveals that this arrowhead sign (I photographed in 2012) pointing the way to the Bronx-Whitestone Bridge has been duly expunged from the perch it had…
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While I still have yet to walk the route of the old Long Island Rail Road Whitestone branch (recently, anyway) I’ve been doing some surveys using Google Earth and found…
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Riders on the Long Island Rail Road Port Washington Branch (as I have been since 1992) are quite familiar with the Flushing Main Street station. But there’s something unusual about…
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Continued from Part 3 Other than the BMT 4th Avenue Broadway Line (N, R, Q and now W trains) perhaps the majority of my subway rides for six decades have been…
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A Forgotten Fan sent me a very interesting watercolor depicting both subway cars and LIRR cars on the elevated Long Island Rail Road trestle at Northern Blvd. and 162nd Street in…
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For some reason, fire alarms, and the lamps that indicate their presence, still have a number of samples that have remained unchanged for over a century in NYC. Some fire…
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By SERGEY KADINSKY Forgotten New York correspondent With the ongoing public debate going on regarding the future of the Steinway Mansion, whose yard space has been reduced and is being…