Besides the mini, I notice: the old RKO Keith’s neon sign; the Bus Stop sign with a picture of a GM Fishbowl; two old-style bus route map signs; a police…
Flushing
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For me, it’s one of NYC’s more abiding mysteries. For about twenty years, the online maps I’ve consulted have named a little dead end at Maple Avenue and Frame Place…
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Here’s a view of the Long Island Rail Road tracks from the elevated Flushing Main Street station looking east in 2009. Note the pair of Caldor signs: the company had…
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Flushing’s history in the colonial era was closely intertwined with plants. William Prince established a commercial plant farm, or nursery, in western Flushing in 1737 along Flushing Bay. He first limited…
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I was surprised to see a remaining Unidor 400, manufactured by McGraw-Edison, on Northern Boulevard and Crocheron Avenue in Flushing. Until 2009, New York had a brimming bounty of lamppost…
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Though this modest 2-story frame house with yellow siding at 149-40 Roosevelt Avenue near 149th Place remains unmarked by a plaque or medallion of any kind, this is the home…
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Man, what a fuss has been made this summer (2014) about a recently uncovered store awning sign for the Hudes Delicatessen sign on Broadway and 103rd in the Upper West…
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Though I had been in Flushing repeatedly (for Mets games and to visit my friend Gary) it wasn’t until 1993 that I got more intimately familiar with the neighborhood, as…
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This is likely the only street in New York City named for a Swedish botanist (Carl von Linné). Carolus Linnaeus (1707-1778) developed the modern taxonomic naming system used by scientists for living…
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162nd Street in east Flushing, almost Auburndale, seems to be making a comeback after a couple of years suffering under a sewer replacement project. Here are three venerable institutions in…
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December 2013: Pretty much going to be One Shot Mania from the ForgottenArchives till I get a new computer installed and my photo collection back. In the early 20th Century…
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During the week leading up to the first MLB All-Star Game played in Flushing since 1964, when Shea Stadium was new, the boardwalk taking pedestrians over the Corona Yards and…