The first elevated train meant to be used as local transit was built by Charles Harvey on Greenwich Street in lower Manhattan from 1868-1870 as The West Side and Yonkers Patent…
Jamaica
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The Rufus King Mansion, more properly, King Manor, stands on Jamaica Avenue and 153rd Street in Queens. It was originally built in 1730 along the main route to Brooklyn Ferry…
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A few years ago I found this pair of signs on Sutphin and Archer, a block south of the LIRR Jamaica station. I haven’t walked south on Sutphin Boulevard (perhaps…
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FNY has been a friend of Prospect Cemetery and its caretaker Cate Ludlam since the Dawn of Forgottening in 1998. This is a photo from FNY’s April 2004 Prospect Cemetery/King…
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It’s not surprising, to me at least, that while the Brutalist, unadorned lamppost designs of the 1970s and 1980s are increasingly falling out of favor, their more ornate, scrolled cast…
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Jamaica Avenue in 1977 during demolition of the Jamaica El. The train was rerouted in a subway under Archer Avenue in 1988; in true MTA fashion, the replacement line arrived…
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James H. Hackett (1800-1871), whom Abraham Lincoln called his favorite actor, reposes at Prospect Cemetery in Jamaica, Queens, under a fallen monument. The Prospect Cemetery Association hopes to restore it soon.…
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Forgotten New York’s first tour of the 2012 season was April 12th in Jamaica, Queens, at Prospect Cemetery (159th Street between Archer and Liberty Avenues) and King Manor (Jamaica Avenue…
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ForgottenTour 51 team photo, at King Manor in Jamaica, Saturday, April 14. The tour also visited nearby Prospect Cemetery. Recap on the way soon. Meanwhile, ForgottenTour 52, Battery Park and…
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From Grace Church Cemetery, Jamaica Avenue near Parsons. Ok…let’s all sing along on the Daaaaaaan Ingram Show… That’s my favorite all time radio jingle. Kars 4 Kids? Bah.
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There’s no mistake about where you are on Jamaica Avenue.
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After having previously walked Jamaica Avenue from its beginnings in Brooklyn out to Lefferts Boulevard and then along its easternmost stretch (now known as Jericho Turnpike at the insistence of the…