EVERY so often when I’m in Jackson Heights, I make my way over to 31st Avenue and 81st Street to see how the Crooked House of Jackson Heights is doing.…
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MOUNT Everest is the tallest mountain in the world at just over 29000 feet (about 8849 meters) and sits on the border of China and Nepal, the mountain George Mallory…
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In November 2021 I lit off for a walk through Elmhurst that wound me up at the Mets-Willets Point Long Island Rail Road station in Flushing Meadows, which I’ve found…
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In September 2021 I was making my unsteady and furtive way down 34th Avenue from Woodside to Jackson Heights when I spotted this extra-large 69th Street sign. Hard to see…
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I’ve mentioned it before…it’s a Forgotten NY oldie, but a goodie. It seems to be the height of redundancy and a complete waste to post two maroon landmark street signs…
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If you stopped a Jackson Heights resident on the street and asked them which “Jackson” Jackson Heights is named for, if they had any guess at all they would probably…
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LaGuardia Airport was constructed in 1929 as Glenn Curtiss Field, and later, North Beach Airport, replacing a former North Beach amusement area called the Gala Amusement Park, opened in 1889…
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By SERGEY KADINSKYForgotten NY correspondent Across the city there are neighborhoods that are “parks” in name only, with only a handful of playgrounds providing much-needed public open space. Rego Park,…
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The humidity in the Northeast in the summer of 2018 has been unrelenting, it’s like South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, etc. Nevertheless I’ve been at it even more than ever, walking,…
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One Room Schoolhouse Park, Astoria Boulevard and 90th Street, sits on a .14 acre plot that was home to the schoolhouse mentioned in the park’s name, PS 10, from 1879…
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Continued from Part 2 Other than the BMT 4th Avenue Broadway Line (N, R, Q and now W trains) perhaps the majority of my subway rides for six decades have been…
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In the 1970s, the Department of Transportation installed hundreds of Cooper UTR Traditionaire lamps (or similar models) beneath elevated trains, especially on Roosevelt and Liberty Avenues in Queens as well…