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…
Flushing
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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…
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Continued from Part 1 I decided to take my latest voyage of discovery in Flushing in October 2015, when its intrinsic oderifousness is tamped down just a little. My idea…
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Downtown Flushing is noisy, overcrowded, and smells horrible. That’s why, naturally, I decided to take my latest voyage of discovery in Flushing in October, when the oderifousness is tamped down…
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There’s a short angled driveway on the north side of 32nd Avenue in an industrial end of  Flushing trailing off east of Downing Street. I have had it in the…
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As post office architecture goes, Colonial Revival is a popular style — Flushing’s majestic post office building, Main Street and Sanford Avenue, with its pediment and six Ionic columns, is…
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No street, inch for inch and brick by brick, represents what has happened to many NYC communities more than what has happened to Summit Court, a dead end on Sanford…
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I’ll miss these when they are gone. Scrolled metal shafts like these used to hold fire alarm indicator lamps on telephone poles in three boroughs of New York City (I’ve…