I have a history with model trains. In my youth our family set up at least two toy train layouts, on a foldout card table in my bedroom. A small…
Flushing
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The Breifne Pub at Crocheron Avenue and 169th Street in Flushing has a nifty illuminated sign with raised lettering, though I’m unsure if it works at night. The name refers…
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Continued from Part One On a late winter Sunday in February 2015, cabin-fevered from weeks of cold and ice (I complain equally bitterly about summers when they are hot and…
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On a late winter Sunday in February 2015, cabin-fevered from weeks of cold and ice (I complain equally bitterly about summers when they are hot and humid for weeks on…
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For years after moving to fab Flushing in 1993, I had been puzzled by this once-handsome brick building at Northern Boulevard and 147th Street, whose front yard is now used…
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General George E. Lawrence Square (actually a Triangle), defined by Parsons Boulevard, Elm Avenue and 147th Street along 45th Avenue, can be found across the street from Flushing Hospital. It…
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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…
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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…