I enjoy a stroll around Fort Totten, located in eastern Queens at the north end of Bell Boulevard where the Cross Island Parkway turns west. From 2017-2021 I often bicycled…
Fort Totten
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On May 16, 1857 land comprising 100 acres at Willets Point in northeast Queens was acquired from the Willet family by the government, and six years later, additional acreage was…
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By SERGEY KADINSKY Forgotten NY correspondent The northeast tip of Queens was once known as Willets Point after the family that purchased this peninsula in 1829. It was acquired by…
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Though Fort Totten, the former military base at Willets Point in Bayside, has been in my “back yard” so to speak ever since 1993, when I moved to Flushing, and…