EVERY few years I check in on what’s happening with the Skyline Diner at the Hunters Point Avenue #7 train at 49th Avenue and 21st Street. You may think a…
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BESET by nagging maladies and injuries…some of which are still ongoing (the lower back is a frequent target for the pain gods) …I was in the mood for a somewhat…
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I was tipped about this ancient sign at 49-10 Vernon Boulevard in the recent book by Bill Helmreich, The Queens Nobody Knows (sadly, Helmreich, who I met by serendipity on…
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Gantry State Park, on the Hunters Point waterfront facing Manhattan, is named for the massive cranes, known as gantries, that were used to load and unload rail car floats onto…
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Andrzej Tadeusz Bonawentura Kościuszko isn’t the only Polish Revolutionary-era patriot honored with a bridge across Newtown Creek. Manhattan Avenue formerly connected with Vernon Avenue (now Boulevard) in Long Island City via a…
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This article is an expanded version of a SpliceToday post from December 9, 2020. A post-Thanksgiving trip saw me heading up Vernon Boulevard from Hunters Point to Ravenswood. At the…
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I set off from Sunnyside for a therapeutic walk on an October 2020 Sunday. The day began in bright sunshine, but low, dark clouds soon showed up, dark enough that…
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By SERGEY KADINSKYForgotten NY correspondent When two railroad lines nearly touch each other, it made sense at the turn of the 20th century to build a connecting spur between Sunnyside…
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I’ve written about this fascinating mosaic sign at the Hunters Point Avenue #7 train station before, but it bears repeating. In the good old days, there was more than one…
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March 2019 marks Forgotten New York’s 20th anniversary. To mark the occasion, I’ve re-scanned about 150 key images from the early days of FNY from 35MM prints. In the early…
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On December 2018, a crystal clear day when shadows were at their harshest, I hiked around southwest Long Island City. Inspired by the news earlier in the year that Amazon…
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The Vernon-Jackson #7 train stop in Hunters Point is one of my favorites. It was opened in June 1915 as one of the two original stations on what is today…