Forest Hills

A weakness of the Queens street numbering system devised by Charles U. Powell of the Queens Topographic Bureau in the 1910s was that in order to keep east-west and north-south…

I was tipped off about a couple of items of interest in Forest Hills, so I thought I would take the R train over there. Because I was out of…

HERE’S a relic you can find at the 71st Avenue express station serving E, F, R and M trains on the Queens Boulevard IND. On the center pillars, you can…

CONTINUED FROM PART ONE HEY, I just had to get out of the house, and Saturday, January 27, 2024 was the only day to do it. I work from home…

NOW it can be told. Between November 2022 and October 2023 I was unable to do much Forgottening at all, as in walking around and pointing the camera at whatever…

THE name Russell Sage pops up in two disparate areas in Queens that otherwise have nothing to do with the other. The doyenne of Far Rockaway churches is the Russell…

I am old. Impossibly old. Older than you imagine. Older than you can imagine. And I have returned to work fulltime, with Marquis Who’s Who, albeit via my home computer.…

PERHAPS you don’t immediately know the name Piet Mondrian, but you might more readily know his style: unevenly spaced boxes, some filled with color, some without. They have been used…

As many Forgotten NY fans know, I’m attracted to the odd roads that defy the grid, because often they point the way to preexisting roads that existed in the past.…

From the NYC Municipal Archives, here’s a look at 71-66 Austin Street in Forest Hills which then housed a Womrath’s library. Since I remember Womrath’s in Bay Ridge as a…

I was furtively wandering down Queens Boulevard on Tuesday, occasionally pausing to wipe off my glasses, as the Illness Mask fogs up glasses as hot breath is redirected onto them.…

I was meeting my friend Vicki M. for lunch in Forest Hills and had exited the subway at the back end of the 71st/Continental Avenue station when I found myself…