I have long had a fascination with the land borders of New York City. I have traveled much of the “undefended” Queens-Nassau border, and did a multipart series in 2011.…
Great Neck
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PERIODICALLY, I cross the border — completely undefended by barbed wire, rifle toting guads and dogs — from Little Neck into Nassau County. The reasons for this have been diverse…
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BLOODGOOD Haviland Cutter (1817-1906) was a miller, potato farmer, property owner (he once owned the land where my garden apartment complex, Westmoreland Village, stands) and composer of light doggerel. He…
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These new street signs appear in Kensington, a tony subdivision of the town (or village; I’m too lazy to determine) of Great Neck, which is east of the undefined border of Queens…
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Pembroke Avenue runs for two blocks in Little Neck in Queens, from Little Neck Parkway east to Glenwood Street just south of Northern Boulevard, whereupon it plunges further east into University…
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I had fun doing FNY’s second Mixed Bag page from two weeks ago, which featured photos taken in January 2017 on my IPhone, so I decided to do another one…
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His biographers say that Frank Lloyd Wright didn’t particularly care for NYC (or the East Coast for that matter), and he produced only one major work in the five boroughs:…
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Great Neck, NY is just one town east of Little Neck, NY (my area) but it may as well be hundreds of miles away, as the two towns are quite…
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CONTINUED FROM PART 1 Auburndale This is possibly the final photograph taken of the “old” Auburndale station. Formerly an at-grade station, the line was placed on an embankment and elevated…