By SERGEY KADINSKYForgotten NY correspondent To the south of Alley Pond Park is another sizable parcel of land that is lightly developed amid the tract housing and garden apartment monotony…
Hollis Hills
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As Forgotten New York readers know I’m fascinated by street layouts. In Queens, the borough in which I live, there are hundreds of numbered streets both east-west and north-south that…
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By SERGEY KADINSKYForgotten NY correspondent In the midst of the coronavirus crisis, nearly all aspects of the city’s public life have shut down to keep people away from each other.…
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To amuse myself before the football games came on, I decided to walk from my home in Little Neck all the way to 71st/Continental Avenue in Forest Hills. It was…
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In spring 2017 I took a couple of walks in the wide open spaces of eastern Queens, one on Union Turnpike going generally west skirting Glen Oaks, Hollis Hills and…
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Here’s a look at Union Turnpike looking east from 233rd Street in Hollis Hills in 1932. Besides the work of intrepid photographers and chroniclers Percy Loomis Sperr and Eugene Armbruster…
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According to the New York Times, the name “Hollis” comes via Frederick W. Dunton, the first developer of the area, which was once known as East Jamaica. He was a native…
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Miss Heather, via facebook: So let’s see: my inbox is hoppin’ (this includes a missive from a college student. It is among the most grammatically nightmarish/typo-ridden tomes I have received in a…
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Quite a bit of Queens real estate bears the name Hollis — the neighborhoods Hollis, Holliswood, Hollis Park Gardens and Hollis Hills, the LIRR Hollis station, Hollis Avenue, Hollis Hills Terrace…
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While making your way through the southeastern part of Flushing as you get close to Cunningham Park, you may spot the occasional white-painted overpass crossing the street. They’re not old…