A little bit of road pavement from the past was revealed in Little Neck as 40th Avenue was scraped, or “milled” as the Department of Transportation puts it, in preparation…
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The Little Neck-Douglaston Memorial Day Parade, instituted in 1927, has grown to become the nation’s largest, and in any year you can usually find NYC’s contingent of Congressmen, the NYS…
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photo: Christina Wilkinson With the shuttering and razing of the Scobee Diner, the recent closing of the Little Neck Inn and of Patrick’s Pub about ten years ago, Little Neck…
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“Van Nostrand” was formerly a big name in Little Neck — the Little Neck Theater at Northern Boulevard and 254th Street, ankd the still-standing house in back of it on…
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Throughout my life I have been leaching and oozing eastward, toward the Sun. I lived in an apartment house that barely missed being sacrificed to the Great God Moses as…
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CONTINUED FROM PART 1 Continuing south on Cross Island Parkway, the roadway briefly sneaks into Nassau County, and then straightens south of Belmont Racetrack, neatly delineating the Queens-Nassau border. The…
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BY SERGEY KADINSKY Forgotten NY contributor Queens is a borough containing many streams. It has numerous creeks, basins, inlets, bays, and rivers. Deeper inland are a few ponds, remnants of…
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Saturday, June 26, 2010 marks the end of service of Little Neck’s sole north-south bus route, the Q79, which covered almost the entire length of Little Neck Parkway, northeast Queens’ easternmost…
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The Department of Transportation, in its unceasing effort to expunge all remnants of vintage street signage (taking time off from building more bicycle lanes or pedestrian plazas in heavily trafficked parts…
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After moving to Little Neck in 2007, I have taken a lot of photos in my new town, but have been saving them for the right time to use them, which…
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Two dead-end lanes called Cornell Lane and Jessie Court, running north from Northern Boulevard between Marathon Parkway and Little Neck Parkway, have been there for decades — likely as much as…
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The London plane tree, a variety of the sycamore, is the street tree of choice in New York — to the point of exhaustion, since street after street features so many of them.…